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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 08 December 2025

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

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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 33 new additions to the roadmap 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 (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

December CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: AI audio overview support for pages and additional languages – This feature provides additional languages support for AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. Additionally, if the SharePoint Knowledge Agent is available in a site, site pages and news posts will now have the AI audio summary experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=535423

January CY2026

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Review PDFs using Copilot context menu and AI actions – Copilot makes PDF reviews faster and easier. It explains selected text in plain language and lets you customize the prompt for tailored results—so you spend less time switching between apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536574
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list agent – Enables effortless list creation for Copilot users through prompts, with intelligent schema generation and setup. This agent helps teams to quickly transform structured information and Copilot responses to Microsoft Lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=534606

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (7)
  • Rolling out (6)
  • In development (6)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams:  Forwarded Messages Links – When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503099
  • Microsoft Teams: Recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal – The new page in the Pro Management portal provides proactive recommendations based on your organization?s environment and upcoming events that can impact devices, such as support or certification expirations. Admins are prompted to update device and account data enabling rich insights from the portal, and guidance based on space and device usage data is coming soon. This feature helps admins maintain smooth operations and plan and budget efficiently. At least one Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Devices license is required for access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501546
  • Microsoft Teams: User reporting for incorrectly identified security concerns – Microsoft Teams now allows users to report messages they believe were incorrectly flagged as security concerns. This feature is available in one-on-one chats, group and meeting chats, as well as public and private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501202
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborate using Pages in Channels – We are bringing Pages to your Teams Channel experience. Create and collaborate using Pages directly in any of your channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500634
  • Microsoft Teams: Malicious URL Protection for Teams Chat and Channels  – Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increasing protection against malware attacks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499893
  • Microsoft Teams: Immersive events in Microsoft Teams – Host interactive virtual events with avatars in customizable 3D spaces. Schedule immersive events from your Teams calendar and join events directly in Microsoft Teams on PC or Mac. Organizers can customize an immersive event’s 3D space with images, videos, and 3D models, no coding skills required. Attendees can mingle in the 3D space and engage with different features that provide a rich interactive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500017
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center – IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures. Administrators are equipped with detailed information on issues, insights, and mitigation tools to promptly and effectively address any potential client health problems. We are reverting this to rolling out as it has not completed.  We apologize for the confusion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478610

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter and multilingual meeting experience  – First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken – no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting.  Next, a new ?preparing? status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520389
  • Microsoft Teams: Tenant-Owned Domain Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging – Identify if an external user comes from a domain that is impersonating the recipient tenant’s own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526780
  • 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: Open channels in a new window – You can now open channels in a separate window to stay on top of multiple conversations at once. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=509110
  • Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall and Webinar in Teams Rooms on Android – When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500378
  • Microsoft Teams: Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via macOS native experience – Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that enables Mac users to share their screen or specific windows using the built-in native macOS sharing experience. This is Mac only, user opt-in experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502523

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

December CY2025

January CY2026

  • Microsoft Teams: Select multiple messages to forward – You can now select up to five messages from a chat or channel and forward them together in one message?preserving both context and order.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536997
  • Microsoft Teams: Autocorrect in Teams compose – Users will now have commonly misspelled words automatically corrected in compose. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=534487
  • Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (MAC) – This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams on MAC devices without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532724
  • Microsoft Teams: Troubleshoot meetings and calls with automatic issue identification and recommendations – Administrators can troubleshoot Teams meetings and calls in Teams admin center with ease with a streamlined flow, meeting quality issues, and detailed telemetry. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526784
  • Microsoft Teams: Title: Ability for IT admins to customize the user notification strings for recording and transcription  – IT admins can customize the message and privacy link used to notify implicitly or gain explicit consent from meeting participants for the use of recording, transcription during the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536570
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Report capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1 – Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can avail the benefits of end user reporting of Teams Messages Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=531760
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1 – Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can utilize Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) and admin quarantine for zapped Teams messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=529816
  • 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
  • Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint – The new Workflows app is to provide an experience that is both simpler and faster to enable everyday Teams and SharePoint users to create automations in three steps or less. This item is still In Development for production release; we apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632
  • Microsoft Teams: Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls – Were expanding the Interpreter agent in Microsoft Teams to include real-time speech-to-speech interpretation for Teams calls. This brings the same functionality previously available in meetings to calls, enabling users to speak and listen in up to nine supported languages. Interpreter helps eliminate language barriers and fosters seamless collaboration across global teams. For a more inclusive experience, users can also opt to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526777
  • 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

    February CY2026

    • Microsoft Teams: Choose Your Enter Key Behavior in Teams Chat – Microsoft Teams now gives you control over how the Enter key works when composing messages. You can choose whether pressing Enter sends your message or starts a new line?making it easier to write longer messages without accidental sends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537279
    • Microsoft Teams: External Domains Anomalies Report – This new report helps admins proactively spot unusual or risky interactions with external organizations. By analyzing communication trends and detecting sudden spikes, new domains, or abnormal engagement patterns, it provides early visibility into potential data-sharing or security risks. As external collaboration grows, this report delivers actionable insights to safeguard your tenant while supporting productive cross-organization work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536572
    • Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – <div><span>All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.</span> </div><div> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=89975
    • Microsoft Teams: Report a Suspicious Call in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams now includes a capability that lets users flag calls they believe are unusual or suspicious. When a call is reported, the signal helps Microsoft strengthen security measures and reduce future unwanted or malicious call activity. This feature empowers users to actively contribute to real-time threat detection, enhancing organizational safety. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536573
    • Microsoft Teams: Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center – This feature allows Microsoft 365 administrators to enable Microsoft 365 certified SaaS applications within their tenant through org-wide settings for third-party apps.ÿAdmins can choose to allow a subset of applications that have already been verified against industry security and compliance standards. This ensures organizations can confidently adopt apps while maintaining governance and reducing approval overhead. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485712
    • Microsoft Teams: Activity in other accounts and organizations – Users can view and respond to activity across multiple tenants without switching accounts. You can triage notifications, reply to chats, and pin tenants to the left rail for quick access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=534490
    • 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: 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
    • Microsoft Teams: Organization Trust Score for Apps and Agents – Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization?s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent?generating a Trust Score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization?s standards and where further review is needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532720
    • Microsoft Teams: Simplified controls to manage external collaboration  – Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization’s external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and select either the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523211
    • 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 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: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars – Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392328

    March 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

    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 (1)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Protect PDF with password – SharePoint and OneDrive users can now secure their PDF files by adding protection that restricts unauthorized access through OneDrive Web. This feature allows you to set an open password, which is required to access the PDF, or an owner password, which sets permissions for actions such as printing or editing the document. This ensures your files remain secure and only accessible to authorized individuals Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482193

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • N/A

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    January CY2026

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Review PDFs using Copilot context menu and AI actions – Copilot makes PDF reviews faster and easier. It explains selected text in plain language and lets you customize the prompt for tailored results—so you spend less time switching between apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536574

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

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Copilot
    Microsoft Purview

    Copilot

    • Launched (7)
    • Rolling out (7)
    • In development (20)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 in Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot  – Create GPT-5-powered agents using Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502552
    • 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): Updates to video creation in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Quickly generate videos from a prompt, PowerPoint, PDF, or Word document with Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—now with transcript-based editing, custom media from OneDrive, natural voiceovers, brand color integration, and a redesigned scene structure for faster, more professional storytelling. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501560
    • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – M365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics – Insights on M365 Copilot Chat adoption for users not licensed for M365 Copilot. Insights will include usage trends over time, adoption by group, retention, and app level breakdowns. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover adoption patterns. Admins can disable M365 Copilot Chat insights in Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499899
    • 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
    • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent Recap – Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494687
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488808

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps – We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Copilot Chat across web, mobile and desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=533043
    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel – Agent Mode lets you build and edit workbooks side by side with Copilot. When you’re updating budgets, creating financial models, or analyzing data, Agent Mode uses Excel’s most powerful tools like tables, charts, PivotTables, and formulas to help you get the job done. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=527835
    • Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter and multilingual meeting experience  – First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken – no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting.  Next, a new “preparing” status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520389
    • 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): Copilot Chat – Session Persistence Enhancement – This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500638
    • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint – A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496654
    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Teams Channels in Context IQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429645
    • 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

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    December CY2025 (6)

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot – The Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot gives users more control over reasoning depth, enabling automatic reasoning for simple tasks and explicit control when desired. The three modes that are supported as part of GPT-5 are: Auto (default) – system decides how long to think, Quick response – answers right away, Think deeper – Thinks longer for better answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532736
    • 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): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint – Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you’re refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=508530
    • Microsoft 365 admin center: Agents usage report – A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497999
    • 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

    January CY2026 (8)

    February CY2026 (3)

    March CY2026 (3)

    April CY2026 (1)

    June CY2026 (1)

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support permission sync missed in incremental crawl – Earlier, permissions were synced only in the periodic full crawl which generally ha a default frequency of 1 day for most of the connectors. Now, we have support for doing permission syncs more frequently in an incremental way. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503570

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

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Copilot
    Microsoft Purview

    Microsoft Purview

    • Launched (8)
    • Rolling out (6)
    • In development (17)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • 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 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: Data Loss Prevention: UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal – We’re excited to announce UX improvements to the DLP Alerts Portal in Purview to help you triage incidents faster and more efficiently. What’s New: 1. Unified View: Events related to each alert are now available directly on the alerts page — no need to switch to new tab or drill down. 2. Faster Access: Access event details (e.g. Impacted assets) with just 1 click on the main alerts page itself, compared to 4 clicks earlier, reducing triage time significantly. 3. Enhanced Context: We’ve added 4 new columns – Location, DLP Rule name, DLP Policy name, Rule Action to display key alert and event attributes upfront — giving you more visibility at a glance. 4. Performance Boost: Cache improvements to ensure faster load times and a smoother experience. These updates are designed to streamline your workflow, reduce response times, and give you the context you need — all in a single, efficient view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501787
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: User based alert aggregation – User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501786&#8243;
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Graph APIs for Standard eDiscovery Cases – Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500869
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488808
    • 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
    • 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 at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. 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 online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=467254

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete Teams transcripts and/or Teams recordings – Introducing a capability to Purview compliance admins via a Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention hold or legal holds to delete content on OneDrive or SharePoint Online such as Teams meeting transcripts and/or recordings earlier than the hold durations to comply with emerging compliance requirements. Leveraging Simulation, authoring approvals, Audit and disposition reviews to set-up and enforce defensible policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518223
    • Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Data Security Alert Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) introduces the Security Copilot Alert Triage Agent in IRM that analyzes and prioritizes IRM alerts so analysts can understand and act on their most urgent alerts first. On top of prioritizing critical alerts for analysts to triage first, alert triage agent will provide a summary of findings to help users understand what are the riskiest activities that make this alert critical to review. IRM correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. IRM 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=503764
    • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Alert Classification Property for DLP Alerts on Purview Portal – This feature introduces the ability to classify DLP alerts directly in the Purview portal. In addition to assigning a status, customers can now categorize alerts as True Positive, False Positive, or Benign Positive. This capability helps security teams better organize, track, and manage alerts, enabling more accurate reporting and efficient incident handling.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511795
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Import Non-M365 data into review set for modern eDiscovery – Microsoft Purview modern eDiscovery experience now enables legal and compliance teams to import non-Microsoft 365 data directly into review set as part of the modern eDiscovery workflow. This feature allows organizations to consolidate all their data into a single secure review environment for streamlined review.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497638
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event – Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management policies. 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=493756
    • “Microsoft Purview: 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

      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      December CY2025

      • Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-New cmdlet to remove retention from inactive mailboxes – Today, there is not a way to remove retention policies or labels (called a hold in Exchange) from items in inactive mailboxes in bulk. Now we are introducing a PowerShell cmdlet that enables retention policies or labels to be removed in bulk from these items. This removal will not affect legal holds.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537204

      January CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager-Purview Compliance Manager integration with Microsoft Foundry for automated mapping of AI regulations and evaluation of Compliance controls for Foundry Agents  – This feature in Purview Compliance Manager shall enable customers to automatically access the compliance posture of Agents created in AI Foundry. Customers can map Agents being created in AI Foundry to compliance regulations and assessments in Purview Compliance Manager and get to know the compliance status and improvement actions to be innovative and compliant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536576
      • “Microsoft Purview: Communication Compliance- Alert improvements – Communication Compliance is improving the capabilities and customization of policy alerts. Admins will be able to customize the alert frequency per policy as well as adjust the email alerts frequency and recipients within the policy creation wizard.
      • Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (for example 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 ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=529852&#8243;
      • Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Email attachment Preview in Activity Explorer – We’re enhancing Activity Explorer to provide greater visibility into sensitive data flagged in Exchange Online. Previously, only the message body was viewable, which limited insight into flagged content. With this update, admins will be able to preview email attachments directly within Activity Explorer—without needing to download the email. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=527834
      • Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager – AI Powered Regulatory Templates – 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: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content   – Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486828

      February CY2026

      • 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: 1. 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. 2. 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: 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.  Custom classifiers are powerful tools but can sometimes include inefficient regex patterns or overly broad logic, leading to Noisy classifier due to high matches, False positives and High scanning latency. Simulation Mode mitigates these risks by allowing you to validate classifier quality and performance before publishing, helping ensure healthy, performant, and more precise classification outcomes.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523201
      • 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 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

      March CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview: Azure AI Foundry integration with Microsoft Purview for AI  – Purview enablement in AI Foundry, allows Foundry admins to activate Microsoft Purview on their subscription. Once enabled, AI interaction data from all apps and agents flows into Purview for centralized compliance, governance, and posture management of AI data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537271

      May CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392457
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392456

      June CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict access action support for sematic models and lakehouses in Fabric  – Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types matches your semantic models or lakehouses. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422501
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=93268

      August CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets – This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117569

      September CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=93269

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