SharePoint Stuff

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 14 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

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• 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
• OneDrive/ SharePoint: Collaborate on Markdown files with co-authoring and autosave – We’re bringing co-authoring and autosave to Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint, making it easier for teams to collaborate on Markdown content directly in Microsoft 365. Multiple users will be able to edit the same Markdown file together in the web experience, with changes saved automatically, reducing the risk of lost work and removing the need to manually manage versions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565906

Release – September CY2026

• SharePoint: eSignature for Microsoft 365 – Recipient groups – Recipient groups in eSignature allow a recipient slot to be assigned to multiple people, such that any one  of those people can fulfil the signing requirement on behalf of the group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560822

Release – December CY2026

• SharePoint: Create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with AI – You can ask AI in SharePoint to create a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file based on the information you’ve gathered within SharePoint Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560337

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (7)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Save your event as template to reuse event configurations – Organizers for Teams events instances will now be able to reuse their event configurations in the Events app in Teams. Organizers can save these configurations as a template in the Events app to use again for future Teams events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561915
• Microsoft Teams: Upload custom backgrounds for Teams events – Organizers and presenters who have access to production tools can now upload custom backgrounds in the “Manage what attendees see” experience for Teams events. This enhancement allows organizations to display their brand identity by replacing the default backgrounds with their own images, such as company logos, event-specific artwork, or themed visuals. Custom backgrounds appear behind presenters and content, giving attendees a polished viewing experience. This feature is available for Teams events organizers with a Teams Premium license. This feature is available on Teams for Windows desktop and Mac desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561493
• Microsoft Teams: Improved visibility and control for downloads – Download manager updates in Microsoft Teams make it easier to track file progress with improved visibility, control, and accessibility. You can now open the manager from the title bar or by using a keyboard shortcut, and view downloads without blocking key chat and channel actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560815
• 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 Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams – Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513274
• Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal – Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493319
• Microsoft Teams: Workplace check-in via Wi-Fi allows easy coordination in the office – Workplace Check-in via Wi-Fi acts as an extension of existing capabilities to check in to a building or a reserved desk, providing more flexibility and ease of use to help coordinate with co-workers. When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to update their work location to reflect the building they’re working from. This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it or not and end-users always have the choice to opt-in or opt-out of sharing this information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488800

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June CY2026

• Microsoft Teams: Chat panel open by default in the gallery view on Teams Rooms on Android – The chat panel will open by default in gallery view, allowing participants in Teams Room on Android to quickly see ongoing meeting chat when they join. Admins can configure this default device behavior, and users can close the panel in one tap during meetings.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561604
• Microsoft Teams: Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams – Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice in Teams fast and easy. Your profile enables features like voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in a meeting room and transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and insights from Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you don’t yet have a voice profile, just go to the recognition tab in Teams settings and opt-in to enroll your voice simply by speaking during a meeting.  Admins can enable or disable this feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537269

Release – July CY2026

•  Microsoft Teams: Improved request flows for apps and agents blocked by admins – We are improving how users request access to apps and agents blocked by admins in Teams by introducing a clear, guided, and end-to-end request experience. This work reduces end-user friction by driving clarity into the request process and notifying users when there’s been an update to their request. In addition to enhancements in Teams, we’ve also improved the admin experience in Teams Admin Center, to simplify the process for admins to review requests and take action. Additionally, we’re introducing a new capability to increase admin awareness of new requests, ensuring that user requests don’t get stalled. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565424
• Microsoft Teams: Emoji shortcuts with autocomplete on mobile – Teams brings desktop-style emoji shortcuts to mobile (iOS and Android), allowing you to insert emojis by typing colon-based commands like :smile:. Real-time autocomplete suggestions help you quickly find the right emoji as you type, while support for custom emojis enables more personalized and expressive communication on the go. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565370
• Microsoft Teams: Open message links in new window – Teams now enables links within chat and channel messages to open in a new window, so you can compare information side by side without losing the context of your ongoing conversation. Access this capability through the More options menu or by using Ctrl/Cmd + click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565220
• Microsoft Teams: New room optimization mode user experience in Teams desktop – Users can more easily use their laptop for meetings and collaboration in spaces like focus or huddle rooms that don’t yet have a Teams Rooms system. The new room optimization mode replaces shared display mode, has a new location, and enables or disables room-specific features. When room peripherals are connected, Teams can automatically select audio and video devices, enable speaker recognition and shared display, and disable voice isolation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=564912
• Microsoft Teams: Tenant-level dashboard for Interpreter – Admins now have a dedicated dashboard in the Teams Admin Center to view Interpreter usage across their organization. Track adoption and usage trends in one place to better understand how Interpreter is being used. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565217
• Microsoft Teams: Assistant field visibility in Organization view – Teams now displays assistant information in the Organization view on the profile card and in the Org Explorer, making it easier to identify a key support contact for executive coordination and scheduling. This designation is informational only and does not grant permissions, change roles, or affect organizational hierarchy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565221
• Microsoft Teams: Queues app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High – We’re excited to announce that the Queues app is now available in the GCC High cloud. This Teams-native app helps organizations manage customer engagements more efficiently by bringing advanced call queue and auto attendant capabilities directly into Teams. Queues app is a Teams Premium feature. For more information about Queues app, including licensing information, please see Manage Queues app for Microsoft Teams in your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565218
• Microsoft Teams: Automatic recording and transcription for Teams Call Queues – Administrators can enable automatic recording and transcription for Teams call queues. When enabled, calls answered by calling representatives are automatically recorded without manual action. Admins configure the feature per queue via Teams admin center or PowerShell, with controls for recording, transcription and agent access to recordings. Recordings are stored in SharePoint and available through the Queues app call history. Note: Queues app requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565215
• Microsoft Teams: Granular channel notification controls – Microsoft Teams introduces flexible presets for channel notifications, allowing you to choose between All new messages, @mentions and replies, or Mute. You can further customize alerts for unfollowed threads, tags, and channel or team mentions, as well as control banner notifications for the channel. This added flexibility enables you to set notifications to match to your work style and reduce unnecessary distractions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565132
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap app – The meeting recap app brings all your meeting recaps into one place, making it easier to find, filter, and catch up. Quick filters help you surface the right meetings instantly, while audio recap lets you efficiently review multiple meetings at once. You can also browse and revisit any recap from the past 30 days. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=564614
• Microsoft Teams: Mandatory pre-meeting consent – We are providing a new configuration experience in Teams Admin Center where tenant admins can enable and customize an explicit consent message before joining any meeting hosted in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561914

Release – August CY2026

•  Microsoft Teams: Preloaded video for Teams Events and Meetings – Users can now upload videos directly into a Teams event or meeting from OneDrive from the “Manage view” options when an organizer has turned on Manage What Attendees See mode. This ensures a smoother high quality video playback with a more consistent experience for attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562340
• 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: Intelligent meeting recap available without saving transcript – Intelligent recap can now be generated without retaining a transcript after the meeting. Meeting organizers can choose this setting from the meeting options before the meeting, or organizers and eligible participants can enable it during the meeting. After the meeting, the AI Summary will be available, but other elements of the recap may not be available (Chapters, Topics, Mentions, Audio recap). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558286
• 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 – October CY2026

• 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

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OneDrive

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Transfer ownership of departing employees’ files with ease – We’ve made it easier to manage files when employees leave—account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced “Move and keep sharing” feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during employee offboarding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493946

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• OneDrive/ SharePoint: Collaborate on Markdown files with co-authoring and autosave – We’re bringing co-authoring and autosave to Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint, making it easier for teams to collaborate on Markdown content directly in Microsoft 365. Multiple users will be able to edit the same Markdown file together in the web experience, with changes saved automatically, reducing the risk of lost work and removing the need to manually manage versions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565906
• 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 – October CY2026

•  Microsoft 365: Pay-as-you-go storage for OneDrive – New pay-as-you-go, consumption-based meter for additional OneDrive storage. Control which OneDrive accounts can grow beyond their licensed storage limits and give selected users more space as needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562352

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🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Edge: v. 149 – Unifying Copilot Chat policy controls – The Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled policy is becoming the standard for configuring Copilot Chat. Extension and sidebar policies will no longer affect the appearance or functionality of Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561041
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: “All”- licensed user page Copilot dashboard – The Copilot Dashboard adoption landing page will be updated to show a unified view of Copilot adoption across the organization. Instead of the default page showing only on Microsoft 365 Copilot (licensed) usage, the page will include all Copilot user adoption, covering both M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat usage that does not require a license. A License filter will allow users to switch between All, M365 Copilot (licensed), and Copilot Chat (unlicensed) views. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559475
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks – Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks are interactive visual artifacts that help users understand notebook content through a grounded map of key topics, themes, and relationships. Users can explore the Mind Map, view summaries for individual nodes, and use Notebook chat to get more detail about a node. Available across OneNote and Microsoft 365 Copilot App. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559029
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copy Tables in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Users can now copy tables created in Copilot. Leverage Copilot to make your content better and use it anywhere you need to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553595
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Copilot Chat – Currently, clicking on cited content in Copilot opens files outside of Copilot. With this new feature, content can be opened directly in Copilot Chat to make viewing documents more streamlined alongside chat. This change is not available on the Microsfot 365 Copilot mobile app or when using Copilot in Edge, Copilot in Excel, Copilot in Word, and Copilot PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=548641
• 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): Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot – The Learning agent helps employees build skills through personalized microlearning and structured learning experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490154
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations – Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516039
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations – Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516038
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations – Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516037
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat-centered experience for creating new documents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad – In the Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad, users will see a chat-centered experience to create documents, enabling them to describe the document they want to create in a prompt. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500632
• Microsoft 365 Copilot: Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad – When users on iPhone and iPad choose the action to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file from a third party app (including Files) and choose Microsoft 365 Copilot as the target app, the file will be uploaded to chat. Users will then have the option to open a preview of the file or continue their conversation with Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500633
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone – When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user’s file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500631
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly launch the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your iOS device – Press the Action button or ask Siri to launch Copilot on your iOS device. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485724

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Seamless Search and Chat Integration – Microsoft 365 Chat brings the power of conversational AI directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, enabling users to move effortlessly from finding information to acting on it. Search results become the foundation for contextual chat, allowing you to ask follow-up questions, synthesize insights, and generate content—all in one unified experience. This integration reduces workflow fragmentation, accelerates decision-making, and delivers a more intuitive way to interact with your organization’s knowledge. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=512429

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June CY2026

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs: Pay‑As‑You‑Go usage – Enables metered, pay‑as‑you‑go access to Work IQ endpoints, allowing developers to invoke agents and capabilities without requiring pre‑assigned licenses, with usage billed based on the agents and models invoked per request. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559017
• Planner: Planner Agent chat – Introducing built-in Planner Agent chat with natural language Q&A, smart task discovery, and in-plan task management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560532
• 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 Teams: Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams – Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice in Teams fast and easy. Your profile enables features like voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in a meeting room and transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and insights from Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you don’t yet have a voice profile, just go to the recognition tab in Teams settings and opt-in to enroll your voice simply by speaking during a meeting.  Admins can enable or disable this feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537269
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Planner Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Planner agent in Microsoft 365 will help you plan, organize, and manage work more efficiently. We’re starting with core task and plan management features to simplify project tracking and will introduce additional advanced project management capabilities over time. Updated May 21, 2026: We previously launched in Preview and GA is expected in June. We apologize for any inconvenience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516576

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device Health Reporting Dashboard – This dashboard will allow admins to view the device health across all their devices to ensure the system is healthy and ready to receive policy updates and quickly identify devices that are not ready. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559267
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Data Loss Prevention to safeguard sensitive web search in Microsoft 356 Copilot and Copilot Chat – We are expanding Microsoft Purview DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat to safeguard web searches containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from using sensitive data for external web search. This capability currently extends to Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents built in Copilot Studio that are published to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=548671
• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to create cases without content in IRM – Insider Risk Management is providing the ability to create a case without content. With this, we will introduce a new active case limit (2000). This new functionality will allow customers to create more cases particularly when content download is unnecessary. If a case is created without content download, content download can be initiated anytime the case is active pending available content download limits. There is no change to the active content download limit (100). 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=554940

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – Enhancement of Loop and Copilot Pages in Review and Export – Improves eDiscovery workflows for Loop and Copilot pages by enabling full indexing of page content for keyword search within review sets and adding HTML format support for export from search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561492
• 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 compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint – This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. Updated May 20, 2026: We have paused rollout and will resume soon. Thank you for your patience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=381750

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – July CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Policy Recommendation Panel in IRM – Today, Insider Risk Management (IRM) provides policy-driven protection for data leaks, data theft, and risky AI usage. However, while policy-driven protections are powerful, customers may not always have clear visibility into where coverage can be optimized or expanded to address latent insider risk. IRM now provides guidance on what protections are missing or which policy configurations deliver the most incremental value, providing customers with more comprehensive coverage to mitigate their most critical insider risk. 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=560600
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Reduce policy sync status SLA on the Purview UI from 2 hours to 30 mins – Admin should be able to see the Endpoint DLP policy sync status on the Purview portal within 30 mins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558682
• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Insider risk management for agents – As AI agents become deeply embedded in enterprise ecosystems, they are evolving beyond simple tools or workflows into a digital workforce. These agents can interpret intent, access and manipulate enterprise data, execute actions and even make real-time decisions. In many ways, they operate like human insiders only with machine-speed data processing capabilities. To govern and protect these agents effectively, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is being expanded to agents, with specific indicators and insider risk score built for agents based on agentic activities. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=545063
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention based on Last Accessed for files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This creates the ability to apply Retention to each SharePoint or OneDrive item based on when it was last accessed by a user. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472030

Release – August CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Policy Sync & Device Health AI-Powered Investigation – AI-powered visibility into DLP policy deployment across devices, helping admins track sync progress and understand enforcement coverage. They proactively identify impacted devices, explain root causes of sync failures, and guide admins with recommended actions to quickly diagnose and resolve issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565374“
• Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Explorer – The Advanced Review Set Explorer empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data. This tool enhances data analysis by offering insights such as identifying top item types, spotting patterns, and trends within the review set. Reviewers can utilize powerful Kusto query constructs like complex filtering, pattern-based text extraction, and data format parsing to analyze and find key information specific to their case or organization. The results can then be visualized using various flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data’s story.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565372
• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Archive OneDrive and SharePoint files under retention – Retention based file archiving moves inactive content to low-cost storage, lowering costs without compromising on Compliance – while keeping data discoverable and Copilot results highly relevant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561208

Release – September CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Archive OneDrive and SharePoint files under retention – Retention based file archiving moves inactive content to low-cost storage, lowering costs with no compromise on Compliance, keeping data discoverable and making Copilot results highly relevant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562345
• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- IRM alerts in XDR – With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=560075“
• 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

Release – October CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows – Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561034

Release – November CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Reduce temporary file noise for Endpoint activities in IRM – When files are opened in Windows, the operating system, and applications (for example, Microsoft Office and browsers) can create, rename, and delete temporary files as part of normal behavior. The Endpoint client audits these activities, resulting in high-volume, low-signal events that appear as “noise” for Insider Risk Management (IRM) customers. While global exclusions exist (file type, keyword, file path, etc.), some temporary file naming patterns are not easily captured with the current exclusions, leaving customers without a practical way to reduce noise without over-excluding. This feature introduces built-in filtering for well-known temporary file name patterns so that Endpoint file operations are excluded from IRM activity explorer and scoring reducing noise allowing customers to focus on the most relevant alerts. 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=560601

Release – December CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Data Security Triage Agent – Sensitive Data Remediation through Microsoft Teams – The Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention now offers a new sensitive data remediation function, which empowers organizations to proactively identify and remediate sensitive information—such as Social Security Numbers, passwords, and credit card data—across thousands of files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive locations, dramatically increasing the percentage of remediated files with sensitive information, resulting in reduced compliance risk. Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Purview, this new agent function automatically detects file(s) with a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy match “Needs Attention” alerts and pushes a remediation notification to the end user who last modified the file guiding them to remove sensitive data through targeted Microsoft Teams messages. Its’ closed-loop workflow ensures that remediation progress is tracked and confirmed, giving admins real-time visibility and control via the Data Security Posture Management dashboard. By streamlining sensitive data cleanup and automating user engagement, this agent helps organizations achieve their remediation goals at scale. Let the Data Security Triage Agent handle the heavy lifting of pushing remediation requests directly to the end user, so Purview admins don’t have to! Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=564615

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