Microsoft roadmap roundup – 20 April 2026

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more. This week’s update contains 35 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.

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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:

SharePoint
Teams
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Launched (0)
Rolling out (1)
In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May CY2026

SharePoint: Create charts on pages with AI – This feature empowers authors to create rich, interactive charts with AI in SharePoint when editing SharePoint pages. Authors can describe the chart they want to create in plain language within a chat on a SharePoint page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560076

Release – June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI in SharePoint – 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. Updated April 16: We are still in development for GA and have launched to Preview only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451
Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing – We’re now introducing the third generation of the Microsoft 365 sharing experience designed to make collaboration simpler, smarter, and more secure by default. At the heart of this update is the new hero link, a single, powerful link that controls access to your files. Whether you copy a link, share via email, or send the URL from your browser, you now have a seamless and consistent way to share and stay in control of your files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492622

Release – January CY2027

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 (0)
Rolling out (6)
In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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: 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: Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android – View and control live transcription during a meeting from a Teams Rooms on Android device. The real-time transcript includes speaker names and timestamps. You can adjust settings such as spoken language, translated language, and whether both original and translated transcripts are displayed side by side on the front of room display. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555234
Microsoft Teams: Resizable Gallery in Teams Meetings – Resize the top video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554925
Microsoft Teams: Digital signage in Teams Rooms on Android – As with Teams Rooms on Windows, IT Admins can now set up Teams Rooms on Android to show dynamic signage content on the front-of-room display when the device is not in use for meetings or presentation. Configuration is available for tenant-wide and room-specific settings via the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. The feature supports select third-party digital signage partners like Appspace and XOGO, and is included with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=548647
Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Android console – With Teams Rooms on Android 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=548652

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May CY2026

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: Test your microphone before you join – Before joining a meeting on your pre-join screen, you can test your microphone and speaker to make sure others will hear you clearly. Select Test mic and speaker to record a short audio clip and play it back. This helps you confirm that the right devices are selected and that you’ll be heard—and hear others—once the meeting starts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560074
Microsoft Teams: Multi-stream IntelliFrame support for GCC-H and DoD in Teams Rooms on Windows – GCC-H and DoD customers can now experience multi-stream IntelliFrame in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, which sends separate video feeds of each in-room participant to improve hybrid meeting visibility and inclusivity. Requires a compatible intelligent camera. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560052

Release – June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Report external users for security concerns in Teams – Users can now report suspicious external users directly within Teams, alongside existing block actions. Reports are surfaced in the Teams admin center, giving admins visibility into potentially risky interactions and enabling them to investigate and take appropriate actions. This enhancement helps organizations respond faster to phishing, impersonation, and other external threats while leveraging end-user signals as an additional layer of protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560547
Microsoft Teams: Meeting toolbar redesigned – You can now customize the meeting toolbar by pinning, unpinning, and reordering controls to match how you work. Raise Hand is grouped under Reactions to reduce mis-clicks, and Leave is clearly separated on the right. It may feel different at first, but it’s designed to be faster and easier to use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560321
Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms up to 1,000 Attendees in Teams meetings – Organizers can now use breakout rooms in Teams meetings with up to 1,000 attendees, enabling more interactive sessions, smaller group discussions, and improved audience engagement without compromising scale or performance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560320
Microsoft Teams: Profanity filter is disabled by default for captions – We are updating the default profanity filter setting for live captions from On to Off across Teams meetings, calls, events, and Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) devices to improve accessibility and align with EU requirements. This change will only affect users who have never configured their live captions profanity filter preference. Users who have already set their preference will keep their current setting. As a result, some users may begin seeing unfiltered profanity in live captions by default after this rollout. Users can update this preference in settings at any time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560323
Microsoft Teams: AI-powered notes for in-person meetings with Facilitator in Teams Rooms on Windows – In addition to capturing real-time notes and meeting outcomes during scheduled or hybrid meetings, the Facilitator agent assists you with notes, decisions and actions for in-person meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows. Simply invite Facilitator with one tap of the room console. Meeting notes appear on the front of room display or touch board, are available via meeting recap when shared, and deleted if no one selected. Rest assured no data remains in the room. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560318
Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention – Admins can enable a tenant-wide policy that allows Copilot (and Facilitator) to retain key insights from meetings beyond transcript retention periods. This enables Copilot to continue answering questions about past meetings even after transcripts expire. Admins can also configure how long this AI-generated meeting archive is stored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558933
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 Teams: Front-of-Room view control for Webinars & Structured Meetings in Teams Rooms on Android – When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559602

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June CY2026

OneDrive: Improved finding and browsing document libraries on iPhone and iPad – OneDrive now makes it easier to find and access your SharePoint document libraries on your iPhone and iPad. Search for libraries by name, browse an updated Libraries view with recent and alphabetical sorting, and navigate directly to the site’s default document library for ease of access. Whether you’re on the go or working remotely, you can quickly locate and open organizational content that matters to you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560329
OneDrive: Improved Shared file experience on iPhone and iPad – The OneDrive Shared view on iPhone and iPad now features a streamlined two-tab layout. The “With you” tab shows files others have shared with you, while the “By you” tab displays files you’ve shared. Quickly find shared content with new sorting options and file type filters, plus see recent sharing and editing activity at a glance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560330

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Copilot

Launched (8)
Rolling out (5)
In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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 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): Upload Local Files now Support .eml and .msg file types – Users will now be able to upload .eml and .msg files and share it as context with Copilot Chat and M365 Copilot App. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=552591
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Copilot Notebooks UX – Users will find an updated, streamlined UX flow within Copilot Notebooks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516042
Microsoft 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): 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
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich Bing web answer cards on M365 Copilot – M365 Copilot will be showing the rich and interactive Bing web answer cards like Weather, Stocks etc. to relevant queries to enrich the responses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500865
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent meeting recap can summarize content shared on screen – Intelligent meeting recap can incorporate content shared on screen in the AI-based summary provided after the meeting, providing a richer and more comprehensive recap of the meeting. It captures details that are shown when a participant shares their screen, ensuring those unspoken insights become part of the meeting recap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490052

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Now smarter with visuals: Copilot Chat leverages embedded images for richer, more accurate answers. – Copilot has been enhanced to interpret and ground responses using images embedded in files such as Word documents (.docx), PowerPoint presentations (.pptx), and PDFs. This capability allows Copilot to extract insights from visual elements like charts, diagrams, and screenshots, ensuring that answers are not only text-based but also informed by graphical context. By combining textual and visual understanding, Copilot delivers more comprehensive and contextually accurate responses for complex queries Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560540
Microsoft Edge: Shadow AI – Currently admins can set Purview DLP policies to protect sensitive data from being sent to any Generative AI apps, users get blocked from sending their prompts to LLM when this is triggered and stops their workflow. This new add-on to the feature shows a new UI that will give users the option to be redirected to M365 Copilot which will open and navigate to this M365 Copilot tab and allow them to send the same prompt there. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560341
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from Scanned PDFs and from text inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – Copilot Chat can now better match search results from Scanned PDFs and from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files — such as scanned contracts in Word, screenshots of tables in Excel, or whiteboard photos in PowerPoint — content that was previously difficult to search and find. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559613
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

Release – June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: AI-powered notes for in-person meetings with Facilitator in Teams Rooms on Windows – In addition to capturing real-time notes and meeting outcomes during scheduled or hybrid meetings, the Facilitator agent assists you with notes, decisions and actions for in-person meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows. Simply invite Facilitator with one tap of the room console. Meeting notes appear on the front of room display or touch board, are available via meeting recap when shared, and deleted if no one selected. Rest assured no data remains in the room. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560318
Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention – Admins can enable a tenant-wide policy that allows Copilot (and Facilitator) to retain key insights from meetings beyond transcript retention periods. This enables Copilot to continue answering questions about past meetings even after transcripts expire. Admins can also configure how long this AI-generated meeting archive is stored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558933
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Masking in Copilot chat – When an image needs precise editing, masking enables users to more accurately select an object or area in their image for AI to edit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537287
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot about highlighted response content – Highlight a sentence, paragraph, or table from the response and ask Copilot to work only on that selection. Get focused explanations, concise summaries, quick translations, or next steps for the exact passage you’re reviewing—no more over broad answers. Your selection is previewed in the prompt so you can edit before you send. It’s a faster, more controlled way to get help right where you’re working. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522616
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI in SharePoint – 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. Updated April 16: We are still in development for GA and have launched to Preview only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): See a summary from Copilot of the latest changes and comments in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint backstage view. – Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489826
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the Copilot chat pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489825

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

Launched (3)
Rolling out (3)
In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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 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 Purviewl: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps – Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520388

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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: Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and Label Policy Configurations – A new export functionality will be introduced in two locations: the Data Loss Prevention > Policies page and the Information Protection > Label publishing policies page. This feature will allow users to export their existing DLP configurations and label policies, including schema, as a downloadable ZIP file. The exported file can be attached to support tickets to accelerate troubleshooting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557553
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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – notification and improved search capabilities – We’re introducing notification capabilities and search improvements to Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Investigators will receive notifications when key investigation events occur, such as when AI jobs complete or when new data is added to scope. Search improvements include enhanced query building to more easily identify potentially impacted data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560325
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=560398
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint 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=560397
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies – Microsoft Purview Endpoint data loss prevention is expanding coverage to Copilot + PCs initially to support Recall snapshots and determining whether policies exist to prevent capture of windows containing restricted sensitivity labels and Sensitive information types (SITs). Purview admins will author Endpoint DLP custom policies to integrate with Windows Copilot + PC Recall setup by Intune admins for Copilot + PC devices exclusively. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560396
Microsoft Edge: Shadow AI – Currently admins can set Purview DLP policies to protect sensitive data from being sent to any Generative AI apps, users get blocked from sending their prompts to LLM when this is triggered and stops their workflow. This new add-on to the feature shows a new UI that will give users the option to be redirected to M365 Copilot which will open and navigate to this M365 Copilot tab and allow them to send the same prompt there. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560341
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=560322
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 – June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Viewing AI interaction messages for anonymized users in IRM – Customers can now access and review the underlying risky prompt and response interactions generated by users during AI usage, even when user anonymization is enabled within Insider Risk Management investigations. This capability ensures that anonymized investigation workflows do not limit visibility into the contextual AI activity associated with potential risk. This enables analysts to effectively investigate detailed AI interactions across the organization. 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=560599
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new custom examination – Data Security Investigations (DSI) is introducing the ability to create custom examination focus areas. This feature will empower admins to tailor examination to their specific needs depending on the type of investigation being performed and the information they are most concerned with. 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=560598“
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-AI app selection for Generative AI apps indicators – Customers can precisely choose which AI app they should use to detect any of the Generative AI apps indicators. This is applicable to the following indicators: “”Entering risky prompts in Copilot””, “”Receiving sensitive responses from Copilot””, “”Entering risky prompts in enterprise AI apps””, and “”Receiving sensitive responses from enterprise 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 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=559992
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Proactive AI insight powered by Data Security Posture Management – Data Security Investigations now delivers proactive AI insights within the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) experience. When DSPM identifies potential data exfiltration, DSI automatically analyzes the flagged content against risk dimensions like intellectual property, financial data, and credentials. Results are surfaced directly in DSPM, helping security teams identify sensitive data at risk before an incident occurs — and take action in DSI when deeper investigation is needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560327
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Investigation templates for common data security scenarios – We’re adding pre-built search templates to Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Templates provide pre-configured search queries for common data security scenarios, allowing investigators to scope an investigation in just a few clicks instead of manually building queries. Users select a template, provide minimal inputs (such as a user or site), and the search is configured and ready to run. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560326
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 – July CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric, Cloud storage, cloud service activities as triggers – With this update, the indicators belonging to cloud storage apps (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive), cloud services (Azure, Amazon Web Services) and Microsoft Fabric (Power BI, Lakehouse) will be supported as triggers in Data leaks policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the respective indicators are used to determine risk score. 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=560399
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies – The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392838

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