
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 31 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.
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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint
- Launched (2)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (1)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge Agent – Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – August CY2026
- SharePoint: Plan and Create Pages with AI – This feature allows you to edit new and existing pages with an AI chat pane. Now, with just prompts, you can add webparts, grounding documents, and refine the visuals and text on your page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558441
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (3)
- Rolling out (4)
- In development (19)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Call history Admin control – Teams admins can now control whether Teams meetings and calls appear in users’ iPhone call logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503106
- Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center – Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498226
- 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: Image viewer improvements enable scrolling and jumping to original message – Lightbox enhancements let users scroll through all previously shared images in a conversation, provide a clearer visual focus on the image being viewed, and add a header option that jumps directly to the original message where the image was posted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554924
- Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering – The voice tethering feature builds on the recent introduction of Sign Language Mode. It ensures that when an interpreter voices for a D/HH signer, captions and transcripts attribute the spoken content to the signer rather than the interpreter. This provides accurate representation in meetings and makes it clear who is contributing to the conversation. It also improves downstream meeting intelligence such as Copilot so that notes, summaries, action items, and insights are attributed to the correct participant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553223
- Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins – Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506750
- Microsoft Teams: New Organization chart in the Profile Card for Web and Desktop – With the new org chart users will not only be able to contextaulize a person, they will also be able to scroll through visited profiles, see a manager’s reports counts, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500696
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – April CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Honor Windows Do not disturb setting – Microsoft Teams integrates with the Do not disturb setting in Windows to help reduce interruptions. Teams notifications are paused when Do not disturb is turned on, and resume after it is turned off. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557974
- Microsoft Teams: Spoken language detection is now automatic – Spoken language detection is now fully automatic. Teams will automatically detect each speaker’s spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. This applies to both live captions and transcripts when Interpreter is enabled or when multilingual speech recognition is turned on in meeting options, helping deliver more accurate language recognition and a more consistent multilingual meeting experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558543
- Microsoft Teams: Video recap in Teams – Intelligent meeting recap will now include video-based recaps. Video recap creates narrated video highlights from recorded meetings, featuring key takeaways and short clips that showcase important moments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558540
- Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter quality and support for Traditional Chinese – Interpreter now delivers more accurate real-time interpretation, with improved recognition of people’s names and common industry terms. It also supports your organization’s Custom Dictionary from the Microsoft 365 admin center, so tenant-specific terms can be translated more consistently across meetings. Traditional Chinese is also now supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558434
- Microsoft Teams: Create workflows with slash commands – Now you can create workflows quickly and easily using slash commands directly from the Teams compose box. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558544
- Microsoft Teams: Run SMB admin tasks faster with Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams – SMB Admins can use Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams to complete common admin tasks and get guidance on critical setup actions. Admin Agent can add users and assign licenses on behalf of the admin, as well as provide guidance on key SMB related topics such as organisation setup, security settings, and password resets—without leaving the Teams interface. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558255
- 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: 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
Release – May CY2026
- 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: Book future meetings directly from Teams panels – You can now make an upcoming meeting reservation from a Teams panel by browsing the calendar on the device and choosing any open time slot through midnight the next day. Add a guest during booking streamlining ad-hoc scheduling and coordination. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Shared Device licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557168
- 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
- Microsoft Teams: New sharing panel in meetings – improved content discovery and ease of sharing – The sharing panel in today’s meetings is the default place for content discoverability and sharing. New sharing panel UI is crafted with intent of modernising and simplifying default tasks such as window sharing, but also for easier discovery of sharing options and more discoverable file sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502520
- Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams – Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on ‘Add agents and bots’ from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group. Updated January 29, 2026: Due to a blocker we have paused rollout until March for this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515465
- Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – <div><span>All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.</span> </div><div> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=89975
- Microsoft Teams: 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 – June CY2026
- 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
Release – July CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites – This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476488
Release – September CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=409534
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 (19)
- Rolling out (8)
- In development (17)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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 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): [Copilot Extensibility] [Search UX] Custom filter support for data sources on Copilot Search – 1. Allow IT admins to customize filters at a data source level. 2. IT admins can add/delete a filter at data source level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502534
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Coda Docs and Wikis with Copilot Connectors – Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Coda with Copilot connectors to query collaborative documents and wikis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515165
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru for Internal Knowledge and Insights – Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru with Copilot connectors to retrieve internal knowledge and team insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513281
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] No-Code Publishing for Azure AI Foundry Agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store – Developers can now publish Azure AI Foundry Agents directly to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store with a simplified, no-code experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501112
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515177
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515175
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515158
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513285
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector – Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513279
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar search for email delegates – Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413718
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent metadata in inventory export – Agent metadata export in Microsoft 365 admin center includes expanded metadata fields, covering Capabilities, Data Sources, Actions, Created In, and Created By. Enables enhanced visibility for auditing, governance, and lifecycle tracking. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502878
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image effects in Microsoft 365 Copilot – We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you’re using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502844
- Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Studio agent report in Insights enhanced with autonomous agents. – Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Viva Insights) – 1. Inclusion of agents with “generative” orchestration 2. Autonomous agent adoption and impact (maker led time and cost saving). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499422
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat Tools Control – Tools acts as a lightweight entry point into high-value, task-specific Copilot features and capabilities directly from the prompt box. By selecting Tools, users get a menu where they can easily discover and trigger the right Copilot feature or capability for their current task, while also providing consistent interactions across tools. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497298
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easier access to Researcher in Microsoft Word – The Researcher agent now has easier entry points on the Word canvas —making it faster to go from idea to polished research report without breaking your flow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497913
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Embedded Knowledge capability support for declarative agents. – Developers and makers can embed knowledge (pdf, doc/docx, ppt) into their declarative agents built with Teams Toolkit for additional grounding capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474448
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box – When users insert content in a prompt using ‘Add Work Content’ under the Plus menu, the content will only appear as a pill in the Input Box UI and will not be repeated as part of the user’s prompt. This helps to simplify the Input Box and reserve it for prompt creation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=552592
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Agent – Excel Agent helps you turn data into clear charts, summaries, and insights using built‑in formulas and logic. It streamlines data preparation, formulas, and visualization so you can stay focused on the story behind the numbers. Use multi‑turn chat to refine your output or open it in Excel for full editing and collaboration. Ideal for financial forecasts, project plans, and decision‑making tools. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543422
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): PowerPoint Agent – PowerPoint Agent helps you build polished presentations with strong storytelling and visual structure. It streamlines research, formatting, and layout so you can stay focused on your message. Use multi‑turn chat to refine content or open the deck in PowerPoint for full editing and collaboration. Ideal for executive presentations, strategic updates, and market overviews. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=543421
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot settings – Optimize view – The new Copilot settings landing experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center centralizes visibility into key configuration status and helps admins optimize settings for Copilot success using Microsoft‑recommended policies, actions, and guidance—enabling secure and confident Copilot deployment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526793
- Planner: Planner Agent in basic plans – Planner 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): Knowledge Agent – Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451“
- Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights – Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by enabling tenants with 1-49 M365 Copilot licenses- allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501581
- Microsoft 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – March CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher Agent for GCC – Researcher will be available for Microsoft 365 business and enterprise users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on license. Researcher is an advanced deep reasoning agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot designed to tackle complex, multi-step tasks by acting as a deep research assistant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554928
- 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): Domain exclusion for web grounding – This feature will allow admins to specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503144
Release – April CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent Summaries in Copilot Dashboard – Use intelligent summaries in Copilot Dashboard to quickly surface what’s working and where targeted attention can accelerate Copilot adoption. Intelligent summaries highlight key adoption trends to focus on areas of success. Suggested prompts enable deeper exploration of underlying trends and drivers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557681
- Microsoft Teams: Spoken language detection is now automatic – Spoken language detection is now fully automatic. Teams will automatically detect each speaker’s spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. This applies to both live captions and transcripts when Interpreter is enabled or when multilingual speech recognition is turned on in meeting options, helping deliver more accurate language recognition and a more consistent multilingual meeting experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558543
- Microsoft Teams: Video recap in Teams – Intelligent meeting recap will now include video-based recaps. Video recap creates narrated video highlights from recorded meetings, featuring key takeaways and short clips that showcase important moments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558540
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chose Anthropic models when editing with Copilot in Word – You can choose to select Anthropic models, in addition to OpenAI models, when editing a Word document using Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558440
- 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Business Justification for Copilot License Requests – When requesting a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, users can now provide a business justification explaining why they need Copilot. This context is shown to admins during review, helping them make faster, more informed approval decisions and supporting governance and audit needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=547731
- 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
- Microsoft Edge: Adding contextual nudges to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon – Edge for Business will soon help users quickly take contextual action on their open pages using contextual nudges attached to the Copilot icon in the toolbar Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537284
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Real-time voice interactions in a podcast in Word – Interact in real time with podcasts created by Copilot in Word. Today, audio summaries help you absorb content on the go, but they’re one-way—listeners can’t clarify or explore without stopping. With this feature, you can ask questions with your voice while listening and get answers instantly, staying in the audio experience and understanding content faster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523206
Release – June CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Deep citations in Copilot – Deep citations let users quickly verify Copilot’s results by linking directly to the relevant part of the reference, boosting trust. We’re starting with Word and PPT files, then adding Meetings, Web, and PDF references. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523223
Release – July CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Company-wide prompt publishing – Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486695
Release – October CY2026
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
- Launched (8)
- Rolling out (0)
- 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: eDiscovery-Tenant level process report – The tenant‑level process report provides eDiscovery administrators and managers with a centralized view of eDiscovery processes running across cases in the tenant—or across the cases they have access to. It surfaces key details such as process type, status, duration, timestamps, and who initiated each process, enabling better operational oversight, faster issue triage, and clearer end‑to‑end visibility into eDiscovery activity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=551164
- 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: Insider Risk Management-New Microsoft Fabric lakehouse risk indicators – With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric lakehouses (in addition to Power BI which is supported today) by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Fabric lakehouses. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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=543243
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Alert Classification Property for DLP Alerts on Purview Portal – This feature introduces the ability to classify DLP alerts directly in the Purview portal. In addition to assigning a status, customers can now categorize alerts as True Positive, False Positive, or Benign Positive. This capability helps security teams better organize, track, and manage alerts, enabling more accurate reporting and efficient incident handling. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542791
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-User based alert aggregation – User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537276
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report – Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511816
- 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
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Release – April CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Policy sync status for M365 Label publishing policies – Admins can now see the sync status of sensitivity label publishing policies directly in the Purview portal. This provides clear confirmation that label policy changes have been fully applied across Microsoft 365 workloads, reducing guesswork, speeding troubleshooting, and increasing confidence during large scale label deployments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558687
- Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Add support of hyperlinks in warn & block toast messages for Edge browser – With this feature, data officers can now complete their coverage story by now embedding hyperlinks within toast messages for the Edge browser. When this rule is triggered, the end user will see a toast with a customized title and message with a hyperlink. This feature is useful when organizations need to direct users to a specific resource or a repository for more specific instruction (e.g. internal policy SharePoint site). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558688
- Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – role-based access simplification – We are simplifying Data Security Investigations (DSI) roles following customer feedback and the continued integration with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and Defender XDR. We added the Data Security Investigation Admin role to the Compliance Administrator role group. We added the Data Security Investigation Contributor role to the: Organization Management role group; Data Security Management role group; Insider Risk management role group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558546
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – File Quarantine Action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive – File Quarantine action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, enables stronger, immediate protection for sensitive data. When a DLP policy is triggered, the File Quarantine action automatically moves the file to a restricted, admin‑controlled & defined quarantine location—instantly removing access for all users while preserving the file for review and investigation. This capability helps organizations contain data‑exposure risks, prevents further sharing or misuse, and delivers a powerful new layer of enforcement. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557190
- 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-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer – Introduces enhanced controls in Content Explorer’s UI, enabling scoped visibility and filtering of SIT and label data. This will help with content discoverability and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553218
- 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: Information Protection – Exclude modern groups / include dynamic security groups support for sensitivity label policies – To provide more flexibility, admins can now exclude modern Microsoft 365 groups and scope sensitivity label policies to dynamic and non-mail enabled security groups—expanding policy targeting beyond individual users and mail enabled groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558685
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enrich Defender alerts Graph API with DLP event data – Enhance current API infrastructure to provide easy and simple way for customers to export data to integrate with SIEM tools, create automated workflows and generate customizable reports. Today alert data is present in Graph API and DLP rule match event details are present in Management API. This work enriches the graph API with DLP event data to make correlation and integration easy for customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558681
- Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – analyze files tied to audit log activities – Speed up analysis of exfiltrated content by launching Data Security Investigations (DSI) from Unified Audit Log activity. In DSI, build your audit log query by specifying criteria such as time range, activities, users, and keywords. DSI then automatically pulls the associated files into the investigation (for example, UserA downloaded a file on 3/1/2026). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558548
- Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – analyze files tied to endpoint DLP alerts – Speed up analysis of exfiltrated content by launching Data Security Investigations (DSI) from endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alerts. In DSI, define your endpoint DLP query (for example, time range, users, and endpoints). DSI then automatically gathers the related files that triggered the alerts for review (for example, UserA downloaded a file on 3/1/2026). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558547
- 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
Release – June CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Sensitivity label inheritance for Teams meeting artifacts – Teams meeting artifacts, including recordings, transcripts, and Loop notes, can now be configured to automatically inherit the sensitivity label from the meeting. This ensures content generated during meetings is consistently protected without requiring manual labeling, reducing risk and simplifying protection at scale. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558686
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention– Unmanaged cloud app discovery and protection with Microsoft Purview and the Island Enterprise Browser – Microsoft Purview network data security now integrates with Island, extending protection to Island’s browser-based workflows at the point of user interaction. With this integration, new and existing Island customers can configure Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention policies to detect and protect data shared with unmanaged cloud apps through the Island Enterprise Browser, the Island Extension, and browser add ins via HTTP and HTTPS, using the same classifiers, sensitive information types, and sensitivity labels used in other Purview policies. Island provides visibility and control at the presentation layer, including typed and pasted input, file transfers, and extension activity, so data can be inspected before it ever leaves the browser. This integration further enriches Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM) risk score, enables data security and compliance for AI interactions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558437
- 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
Release – Agust CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection- New Summary Metrics in Content Explorer for Unscanned Files and Classification History Details – Enhance Content Explorer by introducing new summary metrics that provide better visibility into scanning and classification activities. This update will include: Unscanned Files Summary – Displays the count and percentage of files that have not been scanned for classification, helping admins identify gaps and take corrective action. Classification History Insights – Shows trends and details of classification changes over time, helping admins to discover the stale data in their organization Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526796
Release – September CY2026
- Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard – As a Microsoft Purview user, you’ll be able to view outages, service issues, and advisories that might impact your services. This new dashboard will combine the services and solutions health of Purview, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Cloud Services in one central place in the Purview portal, eliminating the need to go to several places to find this information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497944
Release – October CY2026
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=181825
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