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 12 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 (2)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (3)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- SharePoint: Content Management Assessment (CMA) – The Content Management Assessment (CMA) helps tenant admins quickly evaluate site health, permissions, and lifecycle readiness—all in a single, actionable dashboard. It brings together multiple SAM reports, including Site Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Data Access Governance (DAG), and delivers clear, tailored recommendations to strengthen governance and prepare for Copilot onboarding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501427
- SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites – Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417481
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – January CY2026
- 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
Release – February CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms – Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates — such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents — ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Users can then generate the right document every time by just filling out the form, without manual formatting, versioning issues, or compliance risk, simplifying high-volume, structured document workflows across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=545896
Release – March CY2026
- Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights – Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480726
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (5)
- Rolling out (6)
- In development (11)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Viva: Update Engage community cover photos in Teams for iOS – Admins of communities in Viva Engage will be able to update their community 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=536569
- Microsoft Viva: Search Engage conversations in Teams mobile – Users will be able to search for Viva Engage conversations directly in the Viva Engage app for Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526707
- 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: Customize captions on Mobile – Live captions are now available on mobile devices with enhanced customization options, making captions easier to read and follow during meetings. You can personalize your captions by adjusting the font color, caption background color, and caption height. These enhancements ensure captions remain accessible and comfortable, especially under varying lighting conditions or when you’re on the go. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499620
- Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see” – Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In “Manage what attendees see” users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491633
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block external users in Microsoft Teams from Defender Portal – Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and above can block external users from sending messages, calls, meetings invitation over Microsoft Teams via the Tenant Allow Block List in Microsoft Defender portal Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542189
- 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: Shared call history in Queues app – Queues app now supports shared history for all missed, incoming, and outgoing calls in a queue. This new feature provides greater visibility and collaboration by allowing users to view a complete call history across the team. Shared history can be enabled by your Teams admin, who can choose to grant access to either: All members of the queue, or Only authorized users Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=530579
- Microsoft Teams: Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls – We’re 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 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: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups in GCC – App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=527830
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – January CY2026
- 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
Release – February CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Create custom environments and templates for immersive events in Microsoft Teams – This release brings the next evolution in immersive collaboration in Teams. Designed for creators and event organizers, these new capabilities empower users to create, manage, and use immersive templates for immersive events in Teams and save those templates to collections to use in future events—directly within the Teams Meet app. Users can save customized immersive events as reusable templates to an immersive collection, and share them with others by adding co-owners and managers to collections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542794
- Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling – Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams calling. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543239
- Microsoft Teams: Easily find unsent drafts – Use the Drafts quick view to easily find, edit, and send draft messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542789
- Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance – We are updating private channels to use a shared mailbox, similar to shared channels, instead of messages being stored in each user’s mailbox. With this change, compliance policies set for the team’s Microsoft 365 group will apply to private channels messages going forward. In addition, teams will support more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit for the team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500381
- 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
Release – March CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Call quality feedback surveys for Teams Rooms on Android – Users can now rate the quality of their calls and meetings and provide additional feedback on calling, video, and screen-sharing experiences to help organizations ensure consistent, high-quality experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543713
- Microsoft Viva: Experts & verified answers in communities in Engage and Teams for iOS & Android – In the Engage app for Android and Engage app in Teams for iOS and Android, we are introducing the Community Expert. Experts will be able to endorse accurate and credible answers and be recognized as community experts with a special label next to their name. As well, experts & community admins will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers to signal a credible and accurate answer. Verified answers will receive its own special label. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537270
- 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
- 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
Release – April CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for DoD – Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500242
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
OneDrive
- Launched (0)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (0)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- N/A
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
- N/A
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Copilot
- Launched (8)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (11)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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, 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 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 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): Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page – Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499425
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved Python-powered answers in Copilot in Excel – Copilot in Excel now provides improved direct answers to your data analysis questions, using Python. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490212
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word – When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=399921
- 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Memory and Personalization in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Copilot now uses chat history to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503955
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – February CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms – Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates — such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents — ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Users can then generate the right document every time by just filling out the form, without manual formatting, versioning issues, or compliance risk, simplifying high-volume, structured document workflows across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=545896
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel for GCC – 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=542181
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Meeting Prepare from Up Next – Get timely reminders in Outlook mobile to prepare for your meetings with Copilot. The Up Next card now offers a Prepare option so you can get ready with one tap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=529850
- 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): Learning agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot – The Learning agent helps employees build skills through personalized microlearning and structured learning experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490154
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context – Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513429
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context – Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513428
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context – Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513427
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Say “Hey Copilot” to activate voice conversations with the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows – With the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows, say “Hey Copilot” to activate real-time voice conversations with Copilot. The wake word keeps you in flow, helping you draft content, analyze data, and get critical insights without having to navigate to a separate app or window. Built for enterprise, it respects your organization’s compliance and privacy settings, activating only when called. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497848
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
- Launched (6)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (17)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk management for agents – As AI agents become deeply embedded in enterprise ecosystems, they are evolving beyond simple tools or workflows into a digital workforce. These agents can interpret intent, access and manipulate enterprise data, execute actions and even make real-time decisions. In many ways, they operate like human insiders only with machine-speed data processing capabilities. To govern and protect these agents effectively, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is being expanded to agents, with specific indicators and insider risk score built for agents based on agentic activities. 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=516032
- Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast – With this feature when multiple files are involved in a DLP enforcement action, the policy tip will now show multiple files and their respective status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526789
- Microsoft Purview: Inline protection, alerting, and incident management for sensitive data shared over the network through non-Microsoft SASE integrations – Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and Insider Risk Management indicators to the network by integrating with your existing non-Microsoft Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect traffic inline at the network layer and enforce actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. If configured, these signals also inform user risk indicators in Insider Risk Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522095
- Microsoft Purview: 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: 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Mac device and device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP – Currently you can create Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and assign policy based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different Mac devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526792
- Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer – This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498915
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – February CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Insider risk management for agents – As AI agents become deeply embedded in enterprise ecosystems, they are evolving beyond simple tools or workflows into a digital workforce. These agents can interpret intent, access and manipulate enterprise data, execute actions and even make real-time decisions. In many ways, they operate like human insiders only with machine-speed data processing capabilities. To govern and protect these agents effectively, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is being expanded to agents, with specific indicators and insider risk score built for agents based on agentic activities. 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=545063
Release – April 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=396575
Release – August 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: 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
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