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 10 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.

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SharePoint

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

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (8)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Teams room builder in the Pro Management portal  – The Teams room builder is a user-friendly, visually engaging tool to help IT managers design and configure Teams Rooms traditional, signature, and flex meeting spaces. This feature, available in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal, enables faster design, standards creation, and rollout.  With a variety of equipment options and helpful criteria filters, device and license selection and purchase is simplified. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561549
• Microsoft Teams: Apps in Private Channels for Microsoft Teams – Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific private channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518215
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Assign Open Shifts – Auto Assign Open Shifts is a Microsoft Teams Shifts feature that automatically fills unassigned (open) shifts for you. It lets managers automatically assign open shifts to available employees instead of doing it manually. The system considers factors like employee availability, approved time off, past scheduling patterns, and scheduling rules (e.g., max hours, rest time); and generates a draft schedule that you can review and adjust before publishing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562535
• 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: 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced cross-platform join via SIP for Teams Rooms on Android – Enable Teams Rooms on Android to join third-party meetings via SIP, delivering seamless cross-platform interoperability. This capability ensures users can connect to external meeting services directly from Teams Rooms, maintaining a consistent and reliable meeting experience across diverse environments. Available on Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558539
• Microsoft Teams: Building level insights on the Pro Management portal recommended actions page – IT gets new building level insights on the recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.  This feature intelligently identifies buildings with high Teams Rooms utilization to help IT prioritize upgrades of bring your own device (BYOD) meeting spaces and ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences throughout their office buildings.  Available with a Teams Rooms Pro or Shared Space license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553591
• Microsoft Teams: Attend Microsoft webinars and structured meetings from Teams Rooms on Android – You can join a Microsoft webinar and structured meeting from a Teams Room on Android and interact seamlessly during the event. Available for Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=547824
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – July CY2026

• 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: Facilitator detects and answers questions – Facilitator now automatically detects open questions raised during a Teams meeting and offers to help answer them using web search. When a participant asks a question (e.g., “What is an LLM?”) and no one answers, Facilitator posts a prompt offering to find an answer. Participants can select “Yes” to have the agent retrieve and share the information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558341

Release – August CY2026

•  Microsoft Teams: Block all identified external bots automatically from joining your meetings – Extending the admin controls provided for managing external AI bots and regulating their access to your meetings, we are adding the option to automatically block all identified bots. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566201
• Microsoft Teams: Personal message reminders for chat and channels – Teams now lets you set and manage reminders directly on chat and channel messages, helping you keep track of important items. Create, update, complete, and delete reminders, track them in a dedicated Reminders view, and receive timely notifications when they become due. Reminders are private to each user and include message context, making them easy to revisit and act on when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565869
• 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: 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: New layout when sharing content for Teams events – Organizers and presenters who have access to production tools will see updated layout options when sharing content in the “Manage what attendees see” experience for Teams events. The available layouts are “Speaker focused”, “Content focused”, and “Content only”. The new Speaker focused layout prioritizes presenter video alongside shared content for greater visibility. This feature is available for Teams events organizers with a Teams Enterprise 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=564613
• Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams Rooms on Android – 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 Android licensed for Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562665
• Microsoft Teams: Town hall media optimization for VDI attendees – What’s new – Teams now supports audio and video offloading for Town hall attendees in VDI environments that are using the new optimization. Media streams are offloaded directly to the user’s local device, improving performance and delivering a high definition viewing experience while reducing virtual desktop resource usage. All attendee interactivity features remain supported, including captions, DVR, reactions, streaming chat, and Q&A. First party and third party eCDNs are supported. When enabled, the attendee’s endpoint establishes a direct peer to peer connection using the local device network, avoiding virtual desktop double hop traffic. No action is required if the new optimization for Microsoft Teams is already enabled. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561648
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced bookable desk experience with Teams panel-based desk dock devices – Users have better experiences in flexible work environments with Microsoft Teams panel-based desk dock devices coming later this year. The Teams panel app now enables devices, such as the Yealink Linkhub, to enhance bookable desk experiences by indicating at-a-glance availability and letting visitors book directly on the device. Each device requires a Teams Shared Space license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561031
• Microsoft Teams: Entra passwordless resource account support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices – Teams rooms on Windows supports Entra Resource Accounts for secure, passwordless sign-in that separates device and user identities. IT admins can migrate to Entra accounts easily with the migration wizard, and track progress using a dashboard in the Pro Management portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558853
• 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: Run SMB admin tasks faster with Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams – SMB Admins can use Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams to complete common admin tasks and get guidance on critical setup actions.  Admin Agent can add users and assign licenses on behalf of the admin, as well as provide guidance on key SMB related topics such as organisation setup, security settings, and password resets—without leaving the Teams interface. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558255
• Microsoft Teams: Centralized notification settings for channels – Centralized notification settings streamline channel notification setup and management. Available in Teams settings, users have a single place to review and adjust notifications for all visible channels, instead of managing each individually. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557970
• Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Windows – When a Teams Rooms on Windows acts as an organizer, co-organizer or presenter in a structured meeting or webinar, you have access to the private chat for event management known as the Event Group.  You can also switch to a separate chat with attendees enabling smooth event experiences for all. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557165
• Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps  – You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands.  Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495002

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OneDrive

• Launched (0)
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• In development (1)

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – July CY2026

• OneDrive: Find your group sites faster with the new My Sites tab in OneDrive for iOS – The new My Sites tab in the OneDrive iOS app gives you one place to find every group-connected SharePoint site you own or belong to. Instead of relying on recent files or search, you can browse a complete list of your sites and jump straight to their default document libraries — right from your iPhone or iPad. It’s especially handy when you don’t remember a site’s name, haven’t opened it recently, or were just added as a member of a new site, so you spend less time hunting and more time working with your team’s content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566531

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🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Excel spreadsheets from Copilot Notebooks – Copilot Notebooks allows users to generate Excel spreadsheets using the content and references gathered in a notebook. Copilot drafts a structured spreadsheet grounded in the notebook’s context, which can be opened and edited in Excel, helping users move from ideas and source material to a ready‑to‑use spreadsheet with fewer manual steps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559480
• 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 Viva: Insights – New Copilot Metrics Available – We are bringing a set of new Copilot metrics including actions taken in Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Edge and OneNote, and more key use cases across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint including suggested reply, translate, coach, clean data and more. This will empower customers to more deeply understand the key Copilot adoption cases in Copilot Dashboard and Advanced Analysis in Viva Insights.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557981
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Explain slide selection during PowerPoint Live – This feature enhances the PowerPoint Live meeting experience by using Copilot to let attendees select slide text and get explanations for the content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557256

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June CY2026

• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Insights in Cowork and WorkIQ spend and usage – Insights into AI spend (Copilot credit usage) at a group or team level will be available in Viva Insights as a dashboard and in Advanced insights. The services in scope of this release are Cowork and Work IQ API. The dashboard experience is available to managers with at least 5 direct reports (scoped access), the Insights analysts, and Global administrators and is enabled by default to ensure immediate access to usage-based cost insights. For users to be able to use Cowork or WorkIQ API, your tenant must have usage-based billing setup via Cost Management in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Leader access to tenant-wide data is out of scope for this release. The same insights will be available for Insights Analysts and Global Administrators in Advanced Insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566302

Release – July CY2026

•  Microsoft Viva: Insights for GitHub Copilot spend and usage – AI spend and usage insights for GitHub Copilot will be available on Viva Insights for managers with at least 5 direct reports (scoped access), Global analysts and Microsoft Global administrators. They can track spend and make data-driven decisions for AI spend and usage in GitHub Copilot. The dashboard is enabled by default to ensure immediate access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566470
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Copilot Answers – Copilot Answers in Copilot Search (in the M365 Copilot App on web and desktop) will provide more concise responses and more prominently highlight the ability to continue in the conversation in Copilot chat on the right-hand sidebar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562354
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot improved long files navigation using document structure, enabling more accurate answers and clearer citations. – We’ve improved how Copilot reads long and complex files by making it more aware of document structure. When you ask a question, Copilot can now navigate to the most relevant parts of your document (for example, specific sections/pages) before answering—helping reduce missed details and improving confidence with clearer citations that are easier to trace back to the source. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559614
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator detects and answers questions – Facilitator now automatically detects open questions raised during a Teams meeting and offers to help answer them using web search. When a participant asks a question (e.g., “What is an LLM?”) and no one answers, Facilitator posts a prompt offering to find an answer. Participants can select “Yes” to have the agent retrieve and share the information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558341
• OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android) – With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422323

Release – August CY2026

• Microsoft Viva: Fresh Copilot Metrics in Custom Person Queries & Reports- Viva Advanced Analysis – Key Microsoft 365 Copilot metrics in custom person queries and reports will have values up to 2-3 days old from the current date. This will provide fresher copilot usage analysis to analysts in Viva Advanced analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562017

Release – September CY2026

• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors – A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Copilot Connectors in Microsoft 365 Copilot, designed to give organizations a detailed view of how connectors are being used within Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report provides insights into overall connector activity, and connector powered response patterns over time, along with detailed user-level connectors adoption data. With these analytics, admins can monitor adoption, identify usage patterns, and optimize Copilot experiences to drive greater value across their organization. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=519571

Release – November CY2026

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory – Copilot is now personalized with work data – Copilot now uses M365 activity 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

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

• Launched (6)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (10)

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• 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 compliance portal: Copilot Prompt Gallery in Data Security Posture Management – The Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Copilot Prompt Gallery is a curated collection of prompts and promptbooks created to help users engage more effectively with the Security Copilot experience in DSPM. It acts as a centralized hub where users can explore, search, and leverage prompts that streamline workflows and improve productivity. Designed to support a range of roles and use cases within Data Security, the Prompt Gallery is a powerful resource that enables users to quickly access relevant prompts, accelerate task completion, and unlock the full potential of the Copilot experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492618
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=172024
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, 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=98186
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights – The Communication. Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap.  We apologize for the inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=172016“

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ 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: Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP now detects sensitivity labels on files inside archives – Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is changing the way archive files, such as  .zip  and similar container formats, are classified and enforced. This update  improves detection accuracy and gives administrators finer control over how content within archives is protected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566617
• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – DLM Meter Change – Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) billing will be based on the volume of data retained. For example, any number of non‑Microsoft 365 generative AI prompts and responses that collectively amount to 1 GB of retained data will be billed at $0.25 per GB per month (equivalent to ~$0.0082 per GB per day). In the updated model, DLM is billed based on the total volume of text messages managed by a DLM policy. Each non‑Microsoft 365 generative AI prompt and response is treated as an individual text message and is retained and deleted according to the configured Microsoft Purview retention settings. Billing is calculated on the managed text messages in storage, at a rate equivalent to $6 per one million text messages per month. Customer impact Customers will need to migrate from the legacy meter to the new meter. Based on current analysis, the overall cost impact is expected to be cost‑neutral or lower for customers under the new billing model. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560324
• Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Policy Sync & Device Health AI-Powered Investigation – AI agent skill to detect and alert unhealthy policy sync and device configuration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562016

Release – September CY2026

•  Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Ensure regulatory compliance by deleting inactive OneDrives and mailboxes for departing employees – Enables admins to delete both content and containers for departed users at scale thereby keeping your tenant compliant without any manual effort. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566527
• 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: Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention – Reasoning Trace and Confidence Score for agent-triaged alerts – This feature introduces confidence scoring and reasoning trace explainability into the Data Security Triage Agent in DLP, addressing a critical trust gap reported across multiple customers. Today, without transparency into why the agent makes a decision or how confident it is, analysts are forced to fall back to manual review — completely negating the automation value. The feature will surface a reasoning trace alongside each agent decision and a confidence score, giving analysts a clear signal of how reliable the agent’s output is. This provides SOC teams with an auditable, explainable output they can validate rather than blindly trust, enabling them to progressively increase reliance on automation over time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560597

Release – October CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Azure AI Search honors Purview labels and policies – Azure AI Search now ingests Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and enforces corresponding protection policies through built-in indexers (SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, ADLS Gen2). This enables secure, policy-aligned search over enterprise data, enabling agentic RAG scenarios where only authorized documents are returned or sent to LLMs, preventing data oversharing and aligning with enterprise data protection standards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=534610

Release – January CY2027

•  Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to restrict processing external emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat – We are expanding Microsoft Purview DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat to safeguard risks from external emails. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Chat from processing emails from senders external to your organization. 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=561552
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy – <div>Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=68688

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