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 20 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.
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SharePoint
Teams
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
- SharePoint: Microsoft designed dark themes for SharePoint Sites – Introduce two official Microsoft-designed dark themes for SharePoint sites, delivering a modern, elegant look with improved visual comfort and accessibility. These themes provide consistent branding options and enhance user experience in low-light environments while maintaining compliance with Microsoft design standards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=526788
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- SharePoint: Admin policy for expiring “People in your organization” links – Administrators can now set organization-wide policies to automatically expire “People in your organization” sharing links after a specified period. This helps organizations maintain tighter control over internal content sharing by ensuring links don’t remain active indefinitely. Configure expiration timeframes that align with your organization’s data governance requirements—whether that’s 30 days, 90 days, or a custom period. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553220
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – April CY2026
- SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (6)
- Rolling out (3)
- In development (11)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Simplified controls to manage external collaboration – Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization’s external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and select either the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523211
- Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams rooms on Windows – The Interpreter agent acts as a translator in Microsoft Teams meetings, allowing participants to listen to the meeting in their chosen language with real-time translation so speaking different languages isn’t a barrier to effective understanding and collaboration. It’s now available in Teams Rooms on Windows licensed for Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516571
- Microsoft Teams: Improvements in call transfer experience on Teams Phone devices – New call controls and streamlined transitions enable simple and seamless transfers for Teams Phone users on Android devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502521
- Microsoft Teams: AI Workflows in Workflows app – With AI Workflows in the Workflows app, you will have access to custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. AI Workflows enhance productivity by simplifying task execution and helping users stay organized throughout the day. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500379
- 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: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=414513
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- 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: Report a Suspicious Call in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams now includes a capability that lets users flag calls they believe are unusual or suspicious. When a call is reported, the signal helps Microsoft strengthen security measures and reduce future unwanted or malicious call activity. This feature empowers users to actively contribute to real-time threat detection, enhancing organizational safety. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=536573
- Microsoft Teams: Activity in other accounts and organizations – Users can view and respond to activity across multiple tenants without switching accounts. You can triage notifications, reply to chats, and pin tenants to the left rail for quick access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=534490
⌛ 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
Release – May CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Attendee capacity packs for Teams events – Attendee capacity packs provide increased capacity limits for Teams events. Organizers can scale event attendance beyond base limits while maintaining a consistent Teams events experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558856
- Microsoft Teams: Digital signage support for Teams panels – Digital signage can now be displayed on idle Teams panel devices, similar to digital signage support for Microsoft Teams Rooms front of room displays. Signage source and settings can be configured in the Pro Management portal. Available with Teams Rooms Pro or Shared space-licensed spaces. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558852
- 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: Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings – Meeting recordings now automatically inherit the meeting’s sensitivity label. When label inheritance is enabled in sensitivity label policies, a labeled meeting applies the same label to its MP4 recording, ensuring access controls, data handling rules, and Copilot or agent responses based on transcripts consistently respect the meeting’s sensitivity end to end. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557178
- Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label inheritance for Loop meeting notes – Loop meeting notes now automatically inherit your meeting’s sensitivity label. When admins enable label inheritance in the sensitivity label policy, any labeled meeting applies the same label to its Loop meeting notes, ensuring protections like encryption, access controls, and data handling rules carry forward consistently. This also ensures that Copilot and agent responses based on Loop meeting notes accurately reflect the meeting’s sensitivity, keeping confidential content protected end to end. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555857
- Microsoft Teams: Recently used emojis sync across devices – Recently used emojis and reactions sync across Teams on desktop and mobile, making it easier to express yourself wherever you work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554927
- 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 – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=89975
Release – June CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Standardized preview experience for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files – Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel files now open in a standardized preview in Teams on Android and iOS, delivering faster performance, improved reliability, and a more consistent viewing experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558679
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
OneDrive
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (0)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- OneDrive: Set a custom name for the OneDrive sync folder – IT admins can now customize the local OneDrive sync root folder name on users’ Windows computers. By default, the folder is named “OneDrive – {organization name},” which can consume valuable path length for deeply nested files and folders. With this new policy, admins can set a shorter, organization-specific folder name — reducing path length issues and giving users a cleaner file system experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557562
🚂 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 (6)
- Rolling out (4)
- In development (10)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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): Scatter image effect in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Use scatter image effect directly in Copilot Chat and the create experience to further customize your visual artifacts generated with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537288
- 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): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation – Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516567
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation – Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516566
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation – Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516565
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot adoption PBI version update including Power user insights. – The updated Copilot adoption Power BI report will come with a streamlined UX and new Power user insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557674
- 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): 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): 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Infinite Scroll Chat History – Infinite scroll enables users to continuously browse older chat sessions by automatically loading additional conversations as they scroll. This creates a smoother, more modern chat history experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557348
- 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
Release – May CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create PowerPoint presentations from Copilot Notebooks – Copilot Notebooks enables users to generate PowerPoint presentations directly from the content and references collected in a notebook. Using the notebook’s curated context, Copilot creates a structured, editable slide deck that users can open and refine in PowerPoint, helping turn research, notes, and insights into shareable presentations more quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558938
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Word documents from Copilot Notebooks – Copilot Notebooks allows users to generate Word documents using the content and references gathered in a notebook. Copilot drafts a structured document grounded in the notebook’s context, which can be opened and edited in Word, helping users move from ideas and source material to a ready‑to‑use document with fewer manual steps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558934
- 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 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): Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory – Copilot is now personalized with work data – Copilot now uses M365 Graph data to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=551195
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
- Launched (6)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (18)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – Add Sample to Review Set – This feature allows users to add only a sampled subset of search results to a review set, rather than adding the entire query output. Users can configure sampling parameters—such as confidence level and sample size—to ensure the subset meets their review objectives while reducing unnecessary data ingestion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516578
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – March CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Security Store now available within Purview DLP to browse, purchase, and enable partner integrations – Microsoft Security Store is now integrated into the Microsoft Purview DLP experience, giving admins an in‑product way to discover a curated set of integrations that extend Purview capabilities, including data security capabilities for the network. Purchasing and management are completed through Security Store, simplifying how organizations procure partner integrations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557977
Release – April CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Logged-in user details on the Purview device onboarding page – This update introduces logged-in user details (user email) on the device onboarding page for Windows devices bringing it in line with the experience for MacOS devices. Admins can now see which user is currently signed in on a device, making It faster to confirm ownership and troubleshoot issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559028
- Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP Device Status API – Provides access to the same device health details currently available through the export function on the device onboarding page. With the new device status API, customers can pull device-level information directly into their own BI tools, dashboards, and workflows, eliminating manual exports and making it easier to automate reporting at scale. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559027
- Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – review set limit increase – Review set limit per case is increased from 20 per case to 100 per case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558858
- 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: 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: Data Loss Prevention- Adaptive Scopes for DLP for SharePoint – Adaptive Scope for SharePoint is a dynamic scoping capability in Microsoft Purview DLP that allows administrators to automatically target DLP policies to the right sites based on attributes such as site URL, site name, or custom site metadata. Unlike static scoping, which requires manually listing sites and maintaining them over time, adaptive scopes continuously evaluate site properties and auto‑include or exclude locations as they evolve. This enables scalable policy deployment, eliminates the 100‑site static policy limit, and delivers granular, and automated targeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=549288
- Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Enforce DLP protection upon new content before its saved – Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511791
- Microsoft Purview: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365 – Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468888
Release – May CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Sensitivity label support in Engage – Organizations can now manually apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Allowing admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage communities. End users in Engage will be able to then manually apply labels to communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558684
- 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: Azure AI Foundry integration with Microsoft Purview for AI – Purview enablement in AI Foundry, allows Foundry admins to activate Microsoft Purview on their subscription. Once enabled, AI interaction data from all apps and agents flows into Purview for centralized compliance, governance, and posture management of AI data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537271
Release – June CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration with records management – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558859
- 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: New Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management Experience – At Ignite, Microsoft is introducing a major evolution of Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to help organizations strengthen data security and confidently embrace AI. The new DSPM experience unifies visibility and control across traditional data and AI-driven environments, delivering outcome-based guided workflows that turn insights into actionable steps—so teams can prioritize risks and remediate faster. It brings AI observability, enhanced posture reporting, and intelligent Security Copilot agents to automate tasks like triage and policy management. Plus, Purview now extends coverage beyond Microsoft data with third-party signals from partners like BigID, Cyera, OneTrust, and Varonis, giving security teams a single, streamlined view of sensitive data across clouds and platforms. Together, these innovations make DSPM the central hub for managing data security posture in the era of AI. We are also extending Data Risk Assessments to Fabric and to item-level analysis with new remediation actions like bulk disabling of overshared SharePoint links. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=532728
Release – August CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Data Security Triage Agent summaries and categorizations for DLP alerts will be made available in DLP Alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR – Data Security Triage Agent summaries and categorizations for DLP alerts will be made available in DLP Alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558860
Release – October CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Unmanaged cloud app discovery and protection with Microsoft Purview and Palo Alto Prisma Access – Microsoft Purview network data security now integrates with Palo Alto Prisma Access, extending discovery and protection to network traffic. With this integration, new and existing Palo Alto Prisma Access customers can configure Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention policies to discover and protect sensitive data shared with unmanaged cloud apps via HTTP/HTTPS, using the same classifiers, sensitive information types, and sensitivity labels used in other Purview policies. This integration further enriches Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM), enables data security & compliance for AI interactions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558939
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