Microsoft roadmap roundup – 05 January 2026

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 6 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.

Want to support the site? Subscribe for $3.00 to get access

Get a focused look at what’s new in the world of Microsoft 365 this week, plus more when you subscribe today. Find out more here.

That’s it for this week, thanks again for supporting the site! Please see the full Microsoft roadmap roundup below.

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 (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

N/A

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Teams: Join town halls and webinars as an attendee from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android can now join Town Halls in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for Town Halls on the Teams desktop app. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500702

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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: 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Copilot

Launched (7)
Rolling out (0)
In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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): [Copilot Chat] Updated UI for Microsoft Copilot Navigation Pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Teams – We’re refreshing the Copilot Chat navigation pane to simplify the agents list and increase the visible chat history list beyond a user’s five most recent chats with a more prominent chat history search UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516570
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Freshservice to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Fresh service to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513280
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [1.02] Generate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from agents built in Microsoft 365 Copilot – With Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can now use Office skills like generating PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, and Word documents by chatting with the agent. This helps users save time by completing commonly used tasks. These Office skills will come as a part of the “Generate documents, charts, and code” capability in Agent Builder (formerly known as Code Interpreter). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506753
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): Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search – Find meetings—and everything connected to them, in seconds. Copilot Search makes it effortless to locate any meeting, even if you only remember a few details. Just type what comes to mind—like “last week’s design review”, “budget sync with marketing”, or “next quarterly planning session”—and Copilot instantly finds the right event. Copilot doesn’t just show you the meeting invite. It brings together the full context: who attended, what was discussed, what files were shared, and what follow-ups were assigned. Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming meeting or trying to recall what was decided in a past one, Copilot gives you a complete, connected view—all from a single search bar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501454
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Larger file upload support in Copilot Studio agent builder – Copilot Studio agent builder in Microsoft 365 will support larger file uploads of up to 512 MB. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500375

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat History Landing page: Filtering UI Refresh – To help you quickly find the conversations that matter, we’re updating the Chat History filtering experience. This refresh makes the interface simpler and makes it easier to clear filters whenever you need to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543423
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Capture voice notes in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app – With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, transform offline discussions into structured, actionable, and searchable content with voice notes in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498640

February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a Brief page based on content in Copilot Notebook – The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a Brief page based on your notebook content—no prompt writing needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497134

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

Launched (2)
Rolling out (4)
In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention – The Data Security Triage Agent creates an agent-managed alert queue that identifies and prioritizes the DLP and IRM alerts that pose the greatest risk to your organization. It delivers a summary and clear explanation for why each alert was prioritized, helping analysts focus on what matters most. For this GA release, we’re introducing expanded coverage (which also includes Endpoint DLP alerts as well as alerts that leverage Custom SITs (Sensitive Information Types)) and support for Entra Agent ID. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542190
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “All risk factors” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493755

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint DLP – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Mac devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on Mac devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543714

February CY2026

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=543969
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Auto-Archive for Exchange Online – A new capability called Auto-Archiving for Exchange Online will enter public preview in November 2025 (currently under private preview for selected customers). When a user’s mailbox utilization exceeds 95% of its quota and archive mailbox is present, this feature automatically moves the oldest items excluding those tagged with “Never Move to Archive” from the primary mailbox to the archive mailbox to prevent mail flow disruptions by keeping usage below the safe threshold of 95% of mailbox quota. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543427
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365 – Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468888

March CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=394279

SharePoint Stuff