Microsoft roadmap roundup – 09 March 2026

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

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 24 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.


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  • MC1240743 SharePoint page template gallery improvements and new templates – SharePoint is enhancing its page template gallery with 31 new templates, improved browsing, filtering, search, and unified Pages and News creation. Entry points are expanded across site settings, site contents, onboarding, and Stream app. The feature is enabled by default, requiring no tenant changes, rolling out March–April 2026. (27 Feb 2026)
  • MC1239928 Microsoft Teams VDI: Retirement of WebRTC optimization and transition to SlimCore-based optimization (Windows endpoints) – Microsoft Teams is retiring WebRTC-based media optimization for Windows VDI endpoints by April 1, 2027, transitioning to SlimCore-based optimization. This improves meeting quality, diagnostics, and support without admin action. The change affects Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Windows 365 on Windows only, with phased notifications starting August 2026. (26 Feb 2026)
  • MC1239187 Defender for Office 365 URL click alerts now include Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 URL click alerts will now include Microsoft Teams, enabling detection of malicious link clicks in Teams messages. This feature, rolling out from February to May 2026, enhances alert visibility and investigation in the Defender portal for licensed organizations, with no user workflow changes. (26 Feb 2026)
  • MC1239186 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint News posts – Microsoft 365 Copilot will enable users to transfer content from Copilot Pages directly into SharePoint News posts for seamless editing and publishing. This feature, rolling out late May to mid-June 2026, is enabled by default, respects existing permissions, and requires no action but user awareness and documentation updates. (26 Feb 2026)

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

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • 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
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432
  • SharePoint: Updated Document Library User Experience  – We’re updating the SharePoint document library experience to more closely align with the user experience in OneDrive – while making it easier than ever before to access the valuable functionality unique to document libraries. When you’re working in a document library, we’ve brought custom views and filters front and center – just like in OneDrive. We’ve also redesigned the command bar to help you take action, faster. All your view customization tools are now grouped under one simplified menu, making it easy to apply conditional formatting or organize items by metadata in seconds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500870
  • 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. Fully launched in Teams and coming to SharePoint lists and libraries soon. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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
  • SharePoint: Content Security Policy Control in Tenant Administration – SharePoint Online Tenant Administrators can now allow script sources for modern pages in SharePoint sites. This is particularly useful in scenarios where modern pages have custom code that load scripts (e.g. TypeScript code) from external sources like CDN. SharePoint will now report to administrators where are loaded from sources that have not been allowed giving administrators a way to identify those sources and take actions. Tenant Administrators can also enforce browsers to only load scripts from allowed sources. This behavior can be enabled using SharePoint Online Management Shell. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485797

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March CY2026

  • Microsoft 365: Modernized Access Denied Web Experience – We’re introducing a visual refresh of the Access Denied web experience across Microsoft 365, where users can request access to files, sites, and meeting recordings. This update features a modern Fluent design with new illustrations, animations, and clearer messaging to help users quickly gain confidence and seamlessly continue their collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553214

Release – April CY2026

  • SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages – AI citations analytics will help you track the usage of SP documents, news and pages through copilot and AI agents. You will be able to see how often a page or a file is referenced in a copilot response. You can also get insights into SharePoint site content getting referenced in copilot responses aggregated at the site level.
     Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480725

Release – May CY2026

Release – July 2026

  • Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=115482

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (8)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (21)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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 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 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. Fully launched in Teams and coming to SharePoint lists and libraries soon. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings – Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490051
  • Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut – Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=369345
  •   We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=381953

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list – Positioned at the top of the chat and channels list, quick views give users fast access to mentions, followed threads, and more. Users can choose when and how quick views are displayed – selecting “always show,” “always hide,” or “show only when unread” – and can collapse the section at any time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555856
  • Microsoft Teams: Annotations on Teams Single Window Sharing on Windows OS – Presenters can now share a single application window and enable participants to annotate directly on top of that content, without exposing their entire desktop. This means cleaner presentations, protected privacy, and more engaging discussions across training sessions, workshops, and client meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555239
  • Microsoft Teams: Audio recap language expansion – Audio recap in Teams will begin supporting 8 new languages. These are (in alphabetical order) Chinese, variations across English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554926
  • Microsoft Teams: People Skills on the profile card expanding to Teams – Access to People Skills on the Microsoft 365 profile card is expanding to Microsoft Teams. With this update, employees will be able to view skills directly on the profile card in Teams—making it easier to learn about colleagues, build meaningful connections, and manage their own skills profile right from within their everyday flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=552588
  • 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: 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: 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: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings – Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501107

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – April CY2026

  •  Microsoft Teams: Account Switching for Native Mac Controls via Dock and Menu Bar – Users will now find controls for switching between the accounts and tenants that they are signed into making it easier to navigate on Mac. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558340
  • Microsoft Teams: Improved copy and paste support for @mentions and shared contacts – Microsoft Teams preserves @mentions and shared contacts when you copy and paste messages in chats and channels. Instead of defaulting to plain text, Teams intelligently displays an @mention, shared contact, or plain text based on where the content is pasted, reducing manual rework. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558254
  • Microsoft Teams: Minimized meeting window enhancements – We’re improving the experience when the active meeting window is minimized. Users can now raise their hand and send reactions without restoring the full meeting window. They can also choose between two minimized views: an expanded view that shows up to 4 participant videos, or a compact view that does not display other participants’ video. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557179
  • Microsoft Teams: One-time email passcodes for external presenters in Teams events – One-time email passcodes provide an easy way for tenant administrators and event organizers to verify anonymous, external presenters invited to their events. Anonymous external presenters will be shown with a “Verified” tag once completing the process. Based on admin settings, the event organizer will also have a set of options available to them that applies to all external presenters, providing the ability to control who is admitted to the meeting or allowing uninvited users with the link to be admitted from the lobby. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557975
  • Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap – Meeting organizers can now easily delete meeting generated content including recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes through the new delete button in recap page. Shared files in the meeting won’t be deleted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557170
  • Microsoft Teams: Centralized notification settings for channels – Centralized notification settings streamline channel notification setup and management. Available in Teams settings, users have a single place to review and adjust notifications for all visible channels, instead of managing each individually. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557970
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone user multi-line – Teams Phone user multi‑line gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support across Teams desktop, Teams mobile, and Teams devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities – all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557716
  • Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Windows – When a Teams Rooms on Windows acts as an organizer, co-organizer or presenter in a structured meeting or webinar, you have access to the private chat for event management known as the Event Group.  You can also switch to a separate chat with attendees enabling smooth event experiences for all. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557165
  • Microsoft Teams: Enhanced issue detection in Teams Rooms on Windows and auto-remediation with Teams Rooms Pro Management. – Teams Rooms on Windows proactively monitors room audio, video, and display signals to detect issues in meeting spaces. Teams Rooms Pro Management automatically remediates common issues that can be resolved through software, configuration changes, or device resets during nightly maintenance. This ensures users have reliable, ready-to-use meeting rooms, while IT admins benefit from reduced manual troubleshooting and increased uptime. Available for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557167
  • Microsoft Teams: Consecutive mode for Interpreter – Introducing a new mode for Interpreter that enables consecutive interpretation for the entire meeting. When enabled, interpretation becomes a shared experience for everyone in the meeting, not just for private listening. This mode supports bidirectional translation between a selected language pair (e.g., English and Spanish).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557180
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone user multi-line – Teams Phone user multi‑line gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support on Teams devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities—all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553590
  • Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Windows console – With Teams Rooms on Windows consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=548648
  • 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 Viva: Engage community membership management in Teams for iOS & Android – Community admins will be able to add and remove members from their communities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532722

Release – May CY2026

  •  Microsoft Teams: Identify bots joining your Teams meetings – During Teams meetings, if there is an external 3P bot trying to join the meeting, organizers will be able to see a clear representation of the bots while they wait in the lobby. Organizers will be required to explicitly and separately admit these bots into the meeting, if really required. This approach will ensure that no one inadvertently accepts the external bots into the meeting ensuring that the organizers have full control over the presence of these bots. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558107
  • Microsoft Teams: Catch up on conversations in Microsoft Teams mobile – Catch up in Teams mobile provides a unified view of all directed and followed conversations across chats, meeting chats, channels and threads. The mobile-optimized card view supports swipe actions, helping you quickly review and triage lists of important items. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558108
  • Microsoft Teams: Private organizer and presenter chat for structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Windows – Teams Rooms on Windows now supports separate chats for event coordination and audience engagement in structured meetings and webinars. When a room joins as an organizer, co-organizer, or presenter, organizers and presenters – including external presenters – can communicate privately in the Event Group chat, while switching to a separate chat to engage attendees. This helps to improve backstage coordination, reduce in event friction, and deliver smoother, more professional live experiences. Available in Teams Rooms Pro–licensed rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557720
  • Microsoft Teams: Hide meetings toolbar – Users can now hide their entire meeting controls toolbar during meetings to create more space or simply clean up their workspace. The setting will persist across their meetings, and the toolbar can be accessed through hover or tab functionality even when in hidden mode. Keyboard shortcuts will still remain active as they are today. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532734

Release – June 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

Release – July CY2026

  • Microsoft Teams: Teams button on certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral devices one-click access to voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within the Teams mobile app (iOS). – Now, you can connect your certified for Microsoft Teams personal Bluetooth device (such as your personal headset or earbuds) and with one press of the Teams button you can launch the Teams mobile app and invoke voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within Teams. This feature eliminates the hassle of navigating menus on your mobile phone, giving you instant access to your personal AI assistant for quick conversational voice answers. This capability is initially available in iOS. Android and desktop client will be supported in a future release. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494149
  • Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=115482

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (5)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents – Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480728
  •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive – The floating Copilot button is a quick-access button that appears prominently in your OneDrive web interface. It’s your gateway to Copilot-powered actions —right where you need them. Instant Copilot Access: Ask questions about your files, summarize documents, or compare content—all without leaving OneDrive. Contextual Recommendations: The button will suggest helpful actions based on your file selection—like generating a status report from a file you’ve selected or generating a summary of a new file shared with you. Streamlined Navigation: No more hunting through menus; the Copilot floating button brings the most relevant tools to your fingertips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513421
  • OneDrive: Sync admin reports – GCC-H and DoD – We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC-H and DoD environments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496988
  • OneDrive: Prompt for permitted users to sign in to OneDrive app with personal Microsoft account – Users have long been able to use personal Microsoft accounts with the OneDrive app on corporate Windows devices—unless restricted by admin policy. This new feature introduces a prompt only when a personal account is already signed in on the device, encouraging users to also sign in to the OneDrive app with that account. Administrators who have already restricted personal accounts on corporate devices can continue to manage this as before. Organizations that have already disabled personal OneDrive accounts on corporate devices with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see this prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy. More information on configuring policies can be found here: Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490064
  • OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents – Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480728

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May 2026

  • OneDrive: Improved max path error experience on desktop – OneDrive desktop sync users now get clearer, more actionable error messages when file paths exceed the supported 520-character limit. The updated experience shows exactly how many characters a path exceeds the limit and points users to the specific folder location where they can shorten names to resolve the issue. When multiple files in the same folder are affected, a single consolidated message guides users to the right location, reducing error noise and making resolution faster. Available on both Windows and Mac. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557563

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

  • Launched (6)
  • Rolling out (5)
  • In development (23)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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): Use Copilot to Share with Summary for OneDrive files in Windows – We’re bringing the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot directly into your daily file experience in Windows. With this feature, users can summarize files and send the summary within the share dialog. This feature will be available in File Explorer and OneDrive Activity Center.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=527840
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit Scheduled prompts – Enable customers to edit the scheduled prompt schedule  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=531912
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive – The floating Copilot button is a quick-access button that appears prominently in your OneDrive web interface. It’s your gateway to Copilot-powered actions —right where you need them. Instant Copilot Access: Ask questions about your files, summarize documents, or compare content—all without leaving OneDrive. Contextual Recommendations: The button will suggest helpful actions based on your file selection—like generating a status report from a file you’ve selected or generating a summary of a new file shared with you. Streamlined Navigation: No more hunting through menus; the Copilot floating button brings the most relevant tools to your fingertips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513421
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Meetings search using categories added in Outlook – This unblocks customers from searching for meetings specifying the categories they have added in Outlook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413720

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image Upload in Copilot Chat for Government Cloud – The image upload feature in Microsoft 365 Copilot allows users to upload images and seek insights from Copilot based on those images. We are bringing this capability to Government Cloud environments, delivering parity with existing Copilot experiences while ensuring the functionality operates within applicable Government Cloud boundaries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=551194
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint – Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=548520
  • 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
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings – Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501107
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds – Design and edit images, posters, banners, infographics, text drafts, and forms with Copilot—align them to your brand using kits built by you or your team. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498548

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March CY2026

  •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Take Screenshot in Copilot – Give users a fast, built‑in way to capture screenshots and include them in Copilot prompts, helping them communicate visual context more easily and receive more accurate, actionable assistance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558105
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint – Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557277
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint – Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557276
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint – Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557177
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint – Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499655
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher Output Formats – The Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot empowers users to create rich, detailed reports on any topic they choose whether from work or web content. We are introducing new output formats in the Researcher Agent that will allow users to export and consume generated reports in their preferred formats. Users will be able to export their Researcher reports to PowerPoint, PDF, Infographic or an Audio Overview. We are also updating the UX for previously existing output formats- Word and Pages.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=546246
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web Link as a Reference in Copilot Notebooks – Add web links as references in your Copilot Notebooks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516040
  • Microsoft Viva: Satisfaction Rate Metric for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Dashboard – Track user sentiment of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Understand how users perceive Copilot value by analyzing the breakdown of thumbs up and thumbs down ratings after Copilot interactions.  See trends over time and breakdowns by group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496655

Release – April CY2026

  •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit with the model of your choice in PowerPoint – When create or edit a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, you can now select which model to use, including both Open AI and Anthropic models. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558443
  • Outlook: Draft, edit and format emails conversationally with Copilot in Outlook  – In Outlook, Copilot now works side by side with users to draft, refine, and format emails conversationally, powered by the same agentic capabilities available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=552595
  • Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap – Meeting organizers can now easily delete meeting generated content including recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes through the new delete button in recap page. Shared files in the meeting won’t be deleted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557170
  • Microsoft Viva: Insights – New Copilot Metrics Available – We are bringing a set of new Copilot metrics including actions taken in Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Edge and OneNote, and more key use cases across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint including suggested reply, translate, coach, clean data and more. This will empower customers to more deeply understand the key Copilot adoption cases in Copilot Dashboard and Advanced Analysis in Viva Insights.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557981
  • Microsoft Teams: Consecutive mode for Interpreter – Introducing a new mode for Interpreter that enables consecutive interpretation for the entire meeting. When enabled, interpretation becomes a shared experience for everyone in the meeting, not just for private listening. This mode supports bidirectional translation between a selected language pair (e.g., English and Spanish).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557180
  • Planner: Project Manager agent in basic plans – Project Manager agent will now be available for M365 Copilot licensed users in all Planner plans, including basic plans. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511820
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Graph APIs for App & Agent Inventory and Details.  – Microsoft 365 will introduce new Graph API endpoints designed to empower IT administrators and developers with robust programmatic access to app and agent management across Copilot, Teams, Outlook, and other MetaOS hosts. Key Features: Inventory API: Retrieve a comprehensive inventory of all apps and agents within your tenant, with advanced filtering by type (1P, 3P, LOB, Shared), host (Copilot, Outlook, Teams, Office), last updated date, and more. This enables bulk management, compliance checks, and streamlined governance for large organizations.  Details API: Access detailed metadata for any specific app or agent, including availability, deployment status, supported hosts, creator information, version, sensitivity, categories, and capabilities (such as Graph connectors, knowledge sources, and plugin actions). This supports auditing, lifecycle management, and integration into existing IT workflows. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502875
  • Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business in your open OneDrive and SharePoint documents – Get relevant answers and insights about your open cloud documents in Copilot Chat in Edge.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499423

Release – May CY2026

Release – June CY2026

  •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint – You can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555897
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint – You can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555895
  • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Export metrics in the Copilot Dashboard at Day Level – This feature enables users to export fresher row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis at day level. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=547749

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Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

  • Launched (3)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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=547832
  • Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-New quick policies to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric & non-Microsoft 365 data sources – We are adding to Insider Risk Management a pre-configured quick policy template to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric and non-Microsoft 365 data sources like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will enable admins to create scenario-specific policies, with little configurations needed, to get started faster. All scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page > Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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=543244
  • Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations-Introducing new purge mitigation action – A new Data Security Investigations (DSI) mitigation action, purge, is now available to help admins quickly and efficiently delete sensitive or overshared content during investigations, within the product UX. This addition works alongside DSI’s AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542930

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – April CY2026

  •  Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management– Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows – Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558343
  • Microsoft Purview: DSPM data risk assessments: item-level investigation & remediation – Microsoft Purview Data risk assessments now support item-level investigation and remediation of SharePoint data. New insights like sensitivity label and sharing link information help users identify items at risk of oversharing. Users are empowered to remediate overshared items by resolving, notifying, applying a sensitivity label, or removing sharing links for selected item(s). This helps organizations proactively reduce data exposure, strengthen compliance posture, and ensure sensitive data are only accessible to the right people. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557557
  • Microsoft Purview: Information Protection– Override manually applied labels and Remove labels with Auto-labeling – New enhancements for SharePoint and OneDrive enable organizations to automatically override manually applied sensitivity labels and remove labels at scale on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. These capabilities help ensure data remains correctly classified as policies, labels, and business requirements evolve—reducing reliance on manual user updates and improving consistency for data at rest across Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558342
  • Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new soft purge mitigation action – A new Data Security Investigations (DSI) mitigation action, soft purge, is now available to help admins quickly and efficiently soft-delete sensitive or overshared content during investigations. Content deleted using soft purge is retained until the deleted item retention period expires, allowing admins to have further control of their data. This addition works alongside DSI’s AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558109
  • Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Fabric integration in Data Risk Assessment – Within Purview’s Data Security Posture Management (preview), Data Risk Assessment now supports scanning all Fabric workspaces for potentially overshared Fabric data (dashboards, reports, etc.). The new Fabric tab in Data Risk Assessment allows users to view default assessment results, create custom assessments for scoped Fabric workspaces, and take proactive actions to secure your Fabric data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553217
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents – Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied.  Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500895

Release – May CY2026

  •  Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Pay-as-you-go model for Other Generative AI apps indicators – Other AI apps will move to pay-as-you-go model. Microsoft Copilot experiences indicators can still be used for free even without subscription. To continue using Other AI apps indicators, please link an Azure subscription to Microsoft Purview to enable billing. Insider Risk Management indicators transitioning to a pay-as-you-go pricing model: “Entering risky prompt in Other AI apps”. This indicator is present in Policy indicators-> Generative AI apps -> Other AI apps Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. ​ Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558288
  • 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. Updated January 30: This feature is still in development with a planned release of April 2026. We apologize for the inconvenience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516032
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention-Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents – Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied.  Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503780
  • 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

Release – June CY2026

  •  Microsoft Purview: Credential Scanning in Data Security Posture Agent  – We’re expanding the Data Security Posture Agent with a new credential scanning capability. Discover exposed credentials and data security risks across scoped locations. Assign scanning tasks to the agent, track progress across stages, and take action on prioritized findings. The agent scans selected data locations, analyzing scoped files to detect credentials, such as Microsoft Entra user credentials, private keys, and API tokens. Each finding includes a risk score, AI-generated insights, confidence score, and credential category so you can review, confirm, and act from a single task board view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558436
  • Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Data Security Triage Agent in IRM Enhancements – The Data Security Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management is deploying enhancements such as improved user risk and activity explorer pattern summaries to support improved investigation accuracy, context, and decision quality. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557683
  • Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to preview content in Insider Risk Management Alerts – Insider Risk Management is excited to announce the ability to preview content directly within an IRM alert without having to create a case. Users with appropriate permissions will be able to preview relevant files referenced directly within activity explorer in each alert. 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=557189
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Personalization settings – Microsoft Purview is launching a new Personalization page which will help users personalize their individual experience on Purview.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483884
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=396575

Release – October CY2026

Release – November 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=392456

Release – December 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

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