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 59 new additions to the roadmap, plus 127 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 (2)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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
• SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites – The News page renders news items in a given site. It is typically accessed via the “see all” experience of a news web part.  We are updating the user experience of this page and bringing in Copilot capabilities to licensed users.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499654

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2026

• SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825

Release – July 2026

•  SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving – This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=477371

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Teams

• Launched (12)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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: Permission and Privilege level of Apps and Agents – Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view the permissions requested by an app or agent—these permissions define what organizational data the app can access. This feature enhances that experience by showing the risk rating of each permission and the overall privilege level of the app or agent, helping admins better secure organizational data and make faster, more informed approval decisions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502842

• Microsoft Teams: People count captured by Cloud IntelliFrame in the Pro Management portal reports – Admins get enhanced visibility into room usage from Pro Management portal reports with detailed occupancy data captured by Cloud IntelliFrame during meetings. This insight helps IT more effectively plan and optimize meeting spaces, and is currently available for Teams Rooms on Windows licensed with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501547

• Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms – It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface, and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499615

• Microsoft Teams: Support for multiple camera views and IntelliFrame from Teams Rooms on Windows in Teams webinar and structured meetings – Multiple camera views and IntelliFrame (Multi-stream and cloud) from Teams Rooms on Windows are now available in Teams webinar and structured meetings with “Manage what attendees see” enabled. Organizers and presenters of these meetings can access intelligent camera views and bring them on the live stage for attendees. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499894

• Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame support on Teams Rooms on Android – Now Cloud IntelliFrame, the AI-based cloud technology that optimizes views of in-room participants for hybrid meetings, is available for Teams Rooms on Android using group framing. It is set as the default in those rooms, while remaining disabled by default in others. Admins can manage this behavior through console settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499614

• Microsoft Teams: Countdown Timer for Teams Meetings – Manage time and streamline meeting discussions with the new countdown timer for Teams meetings, a tool designed to keep meetings efficient and on schedule. Any user can easily add a timer of any duration to the meeting (up to 100 minutes), which will appear in the meeting window for all participants with controls to start, stop, pause, and add more time. Colors automatically change as the timer gets closer to zero to help keep the speaker on track. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494842

• Microsoft Teams: Default Teams Calling global policy to enable users to transcribe or record calls – We’re updating the default global calling policy for new tenants to allow users to transcribe or record calls. Previously, these settings were turned off by default in the host global policy. With this update, recording and transcription will be enabled by default in the global calling policy for new tenants and existing tenants who have not modified the host global policy. This change will not impact existing custom policies or modified global policies. After this rollout, recording and transcription services will be more accessible to users, allowing them to turn on and use recording and transcription as needed during Teams calls. Neither recording nor transcription will be automatically enabled in Teams calls. This update is designed to broaden access to AI-powered features like Calls Recap and Calling Copilot, enhancing the overall calling experience. It also brings calling policy defaults in line with Teams meetings policies, where recording and transcription are already enabled by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494151

• Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High – After further review, we will not be rolling this out to DoD. We apologize for any inconvenience. The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490568

• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced spell check with multi-language support – Enhanced spell check will help ensure that your messages are clear and professional. When you type your message in the Teams compose box, any issue found will be marked. You can then choose to correct them from options suggested in a dropdown menu, ignore them or add to dictionary. With multi-language support, you can switch between up to three languages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470600

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot – Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418564  

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Users can search for their settings in the Teams settings app – Within the Teams Settings app, we are now allowing the user to search for their desired setting through the search text box. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=512427

• Microsoft Teams: Search for images – Search for images by message content, people, or where they were shared. See results as you type, filter to show only images, or explore them in the dedicated Images tab — all from the search bar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505443

• 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: 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: 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: Open Teams’ apps in new window – Organize your work environment to fit your needs. Users can open Teams’ apps, like Chat, Calls, Activity and more in separate windows, allowing users to view and interact with these apps simultaneously. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495003

• 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

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

– Release: November CY2025 (2)

• Microsoft Teams: Teams frontline BYOD onboarding wizard – Simplify frontline onboarding with an improved Teams mobile experience on personal devices. Workers can easily download and start using the Teams mobile app on their own device in compliance with organizational security policies, reducing the need for manager assistance and IT support. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523213

• 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 (2)

• Microsoft Viva: Update storyline cover photos in Teams for iOS. – Users will be able to update their storyline cover photo from Teams for iOS. This is already currently supported on Teams for Android or Windows, Mac, on the web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526783

• Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for Windows endpoints on Omnissa environments – This feature allows Windows 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=518286

– Release: January CY2026 (5)

• 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: Miracast support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices – In addition to Teams Cast and HDMI ingest; you are able to share wirelessly using Miracast with Teams Rooms on Windows devices including touch boards. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506748

• Microsoft Teams: Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows – When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=508521

• Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins – Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506750

• 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

– Release: February CY2026 (1)

• Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps – You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands. Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495002

• SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825

– Release: March CY2026 (1)

• Microsoft Teams: Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby – Enhance in-office collaboration with Microsoft Teams’ new @nearby mention type. Easily notify teammates who are physically present in the office, streamlining communication and fostering real-time connections. Perfect for quick discussions or impromptu meetings, @nearby keeps your team aligned and efficient. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488801

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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): Meetings search using categories added in Outlook – This unblocks customers from searching for meetings specifying the categories they have added in Outlook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413720
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent Ownership Reassignment – Admins can reassign ownership of shared agents created within the organization through tools such as Copilot Studio or the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. Once reassigned, the new owner will gain full edit and delete permissions, along with access to any files uploaded by the previous owner. The former owner will lose all access, including read rights. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502867
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image effects in Microsoft 365 Copilot – We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you’re using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502844
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Support for emails in ContextIQ – Users can include an email in their prompt as a reference by typing ‘/’ and selecting one from the ContextIQ menu when using either the full app or side pane Copilot Chat experience in Outlook. Copilot Chat will reference the included email as part of its response. This feature applies to users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (Copilot Chat users) and to users with a license (Microsoft 365 Copilot users) when they are toggled to web scope in chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500377
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Press and hold Win + C or Copilot key to activate voice on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Press and hold Win + C keys, or the dedicated Copilot key for applicable devices, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will activate voice. With voice, talk to Copilot like a personal assistant – interrupting and redirecting at any time to prepare for the workday, create documents, understand topics, and search for information. This shortcut to activate voice means you don’t have to switch between screens to talk with Copilot. Enterprise-grade security and compliance are built in, so conversations stay private while productivity soars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497849
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496367
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496366
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496365
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Skills landscape report for organizations  – A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491022
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot – The Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot expedites answers for the most common workplace policy-related questions and takes action on key HR and IT related tasks, connecting employees to authorized knowledge bases and HR/IT systems of record for faster resolution time and a streamlined employee experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487836

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November 2025

•  Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Prompt category metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard will start showing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompt category metrics within Copilot Chat (work) insights. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486698
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat – Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496596
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Files found via Chat search can be now analyzed by code interpreter – Code interpreter runs on files you upload in your agent or that the user explicitly attaches in the interaction. Files that Copilot Chat finds via enterprise search can be now analyzed by code interpreter without the need to explicitly link or upload them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=519570
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot APIs TypeScript Client Libraries – Developers: Pro-devs can use a JS SDK to call CCS APIs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501574
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): User can use Hubspot Connector in Researcher – The HubSpot connector allows users using the Researcher agent to be able to leverage 3rd party information from HubSpot to enrich generated responses with relevant information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501292
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Word for Enhanced document editing – Copilot supports document editing in Word through chat-based interactions with Agent Mode. Users can initiate edits, share clarifying directions, and review a summary of changes within the document.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499428
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Frontier and Microsoft agent user request approval flow in Microsoft 365 admin center – For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494809
• Microsoft Graph: Graph API – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=396562

Release – December 2025

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Streamlined Authentication process with OAuth for Connector Admins – Effortless authentication, unified through OAuth — empowering Connector Admins to connect in just a few clicks. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502530
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit capability for selecting permission reading option for existing ServiceNow Knowledge & Catalog Connections – Earlier admins had to create new connections to adopt to the hierarchical permissions for ServiceNow Knowledge & Catalog Copilot Connectors as the edit capability was missing. Now, admins can easily edit their existing connections to switch between the permission handling option i.e. Simple vs Advanced to quickly adopt to the hierarchical permission feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505438
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge templates support for ServiceNow Knowledge Connector – Earlier ServiceNow Knowledge connector did not support ingestion of content for articles created using templates in ServiceNow. But now ServiceNow Knowledge connector supports ingestion of knowledge articles based on out-of-the-box templates like FAQ, How to, What is, etc. & even custom templates used by the customers in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505436
• Microsoft Edge: Securely enable AI generated applications – Leverage the latest AI advancements to build prototypes, learning applications or interactive reports using your favorite tools in Edge without worrying about your data. This extension enables apps to leverage some new security improvements for safely executing AI generated code. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=525366
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Copilot Notebooks UX – Users will find an updated, streamlined UX flow within Copilot Notebooks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516042
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Adobe Experience Manager Assets to retrieve marketing and creative assets with Copilot Connector  – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Adobe Experience Manager Assets to retrieve marketing and creative assets with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513286
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users can create agents scoped on Custom connector containers  – 1. Makers can now scope their data in their agent created on custom connector data at a particular container. 2. These containers will be defined during creation/updating of the custom connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502546″
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover graph connector prompts in the Prompt Gallery when using Copilot Chat – Popular graph connector prompts will now be available in the Prompt Gallery for use in Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501448
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise  grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520772
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Agent Support in Copilot Notebooks – With Agents in Notebooks, use the specialized skills and knowledge of Agents on the content that matter most to your task at hand, whether it’s transforming complex data into clear insights and visualizations with Analyst, or creating stunning designs with Designer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516041
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – your AI assistant in the GCCH environment – Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot your AI assistant for work in the GCC-H environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (web), Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint, and Clipchamp. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=509108
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – General Availability for the GCC High environment – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will be generally available for the GCC High environment, and it will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC High compliance boundary. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=509107
• 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): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for DoD – Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502855
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for GCC-M – Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502854
• Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): List email attachments in M365 Copilot – Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497909

Release – January 2025

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations – Easily customize your visual content with built-in controls to select your preferred style, choose your visual format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image and with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your brand kit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506756
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations – Easily customize your prompt output with built-in controls to select your preferred style and choose the format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your organization brand kit to create on-brand content without manually uploading assets and describing your style. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506755
• Microsoft Viva: Satisfaction Rate Metric for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Dashboard – Track user sentiment of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Understand how users perceive Copilot value by analyzing the breakdown of thumbs up and thumbs down ratings after Copilot interactions.  See trends over time and breakdowns by group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496655
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights – Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by removing the requirement for 50 M365 Copilot licenses, allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501581
• Microsoft 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
• Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in classic Outlook for Windows – We will be adding declarative agents support for agents in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in classic Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481559

Release – February 2025

• SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825

Release – March 2025

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage private content in M365 Copilot – Engage content from private communities and events will be used as grounding source for M365 Copilot. When a user queries in M365 Copilot, they will only be able to see content they are privileged to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515144
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Highlights on Copilot adoption from Viva Engage – Explore how Copilot is making a difference in your organization through Viva Engage posts that users have shared. The Copilot Dashboard showcases real-world success stories, user-shared excitement about new Copilot features, and vibrant community discussions. These examples offer a qualitative view into how Copilot is driving productivity and engagement across your tenant, directly in the Copilot Dashboard. #CopilotControlSystem. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511813
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Agent Dashboard. – Viva Insights is creating an Agent Dashboard, designed to be a central place for leaders, delegates and analysts to understand how your organization is adopting agents. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506749

Release – June 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC High – Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489217

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Microsoft Purview

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Data Loss Prevention—Self-helper troubleshooting through Diagnostics page – Admin should be able to troubleshoot device health and policy sync health through Diagnostics page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501592

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP Mac device management support for additional MDM solutions – Endpoint DLP is extending support to Mac devices managed by additional third party MDM solutions other than the currently supported JAMF or Intune. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485798

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention—Detection of True file type in EXO DLP – Traditionally, Exchange has relied solely on the file extension (e.g., .docx, .pdf) to identify the type of an attachment. However, this approach can be bypassed if a file is renamed with a misleading extension. To address this, we’re enhancing our detection logic to go beyond just the visible file extension. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493291

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP: App or App Group Restriction support for Edge browser – Previously, Purview Admins could not restrict Edge browser access to sensitive files through Restricted apps or app groups. With this feature, apps or app groups can be configured to be blocked in Edge, including a message showing policy violation info. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft365/roadmap?searchterms=485769

🚂 ROLLING OUT

Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500869

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention—Always-on diagnostics for Windows Endpoints (Phase 2) – Admins can retrieve diagnostic ‘Always-on diagnostic’ traces directly from Windows endpoints and selectively upload them to Microsoft through the Purview Portal at the time of an investigation request such as submitting a support ticket, without disrupting end users or impacting their productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499431

• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492618

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business – With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486368

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP: App or App Group Restriction support for Edge browser – Previously, Purview Admins could not restrict Edge browser access to sensitive files through Restricted apps or app groups. With this feature, apps or app groups can be configured to be blocked in Edge, including a message showing policy violation info. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485769  

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

 – Release: November CY2025 (5)

• Microsoft Purview: Information Protection—New Summary Metrics in Content Explorer for Unscanned Files and Classification History Details – Enhance Content Explorer by introducing new summary metrics that provide better visibility into scanning and classification activities. This update will include: Unscanned Files Summary
Displays the count and percentage of files that have not been scanned for classification, helping admins identify gaps and take corrective action. Classification History Insights
Shows trends and details of classification changes over time, helping admins to discover the stale data in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526796

• Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager—Regulatory Navigator – This feature in Purview Compliance Manager shall enable customers to convert complex regulations from PDF documents to actionable controls and actions in multi cloud environment. Customers can use the converted regulatory templates to create assessments and identify compliance gaps, understand and implement controls to improve their compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523209

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview in Microsoft Admin Center – AI and IT admins in Microsoft Admin Center can 1) gain visibility around oversharing risks and drive remediations 2) Understand how much of sensitive copilot interactions are protected and turn on Purview DLP for M365 Copilot right from there. Enables secure adoption of Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523212

• Microsoft Purview: 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=525363

• Microsoft Purview: Purview Information Protection—Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring) – Microsoft Purview introduces the Classifier Simulation Mode, the first phase of the broader Classifier Health Monitoring Platform. This capability enables you to test, analyze, and optimize custom classifiers on production data before publishing them, hence offering a reliable means of verifying the effectiveness of classifiers before committing them to live environments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523201

– Release: December CY2025 (4)

• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention—Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520772

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints – OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator can be used for 30 days and will not scan images for sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489454

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention—Enforce DLP protection upon new content before its saved – Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511791

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention—Detection of True file type in EXO DLP – Traditionally, Exchange has relied solely on the file extension (e.g., .docx, .pdf) to identify the type of an attachment. However, this approach can be bypassed if a file is renamed with a misleading extension. To address this, we’re enhancing our detection logic to go beyond just the visible file extension. With this update, even if a file’s extension is altered, Exchange will evaluate the actual content of the file to determine its true type. This ensures that policies based on file type—such as “File extension is…”—remain effective and secure, even in cases of renamed or disguised attachments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493291

– Release: January CY2026 (2)

• Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery—Add Sample to Review Set – This feature allows users to add only a sampled subset of search results to a review set, rather than adding the entire query output. Users can configure sampling parameters—such as confidence level and sample size—to ensure the subset meets their review objectives while reducing unnecessary data ingestion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516578

• Microsoft Purview: Information Protection—New Summary Metrics in Content Explorer for Unscanned Files and Classification History Details – Enhance Content Explorer by introducing new summary metrics that provide better visibility into scanning and classification activities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526796

– Release: June CY2026 (2)

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management—Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117523

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117425

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