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 25 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 (2)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Admin policy for expiring “People in your organization” links – Administrators can now set organization-wide policies to automatically expire “People in your organization” sharing links after a specified period. This helps organizations maintain tighter control over internal content sharing by ensuring links don’t remain active indefinitely. Configure expiration timeframes that align with your organization’s data governance requirements—whether that’s 30 days, 90 days, or a custom period. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553220
• SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving – This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=477371

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• SharePoint: Flexible Section Authoring Improvements – We’ve enhanced Flexible Sections in SharePoint Pages to make page layout creation more intuitive and predictable. Authors can now use visual column layout guides that mirror familiar sections, keep gridlines and layout guides visible while editing, and convert existing sections into Flexible Sections with a single click while preserving content placement. These improvements help authors create richer page designs with greater confidence and consistency across desktop, mobile, and email experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567889
• OneDrive: Block screen capture for sensitivity-labeled PDFs in the OneDrive and SharePoint web viewer – The OneDrive and SharePoint web PDF viewer will block screen capture in Microsoft Edge when users open PDFs whose sensitivity (MIP) label without Copy (EXTRACT) permission. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566695

Release – December CY2026

• SharePoint: Enterprise store plugins in Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint now supports plugins from your enterprise store. A plugin can bundle skills, MCP servers, and other capabilities that extend what Copilot can do. Any plugin made available to your organization, whether installed tenant-wide by an admin or added by you, works directly in Copilot in SharePoint, all governed by your M365 admin. For example, your organization can publish a company-wide accessibility plugin once and have it work consistently across all agentic products, including Copilot in SharePoint, so everyone gets the same accessible experience wherever they work.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567669
• SharePoint: Personal Skills in Copilot in SharePoint – Create your own personal skills in Copilot in SharePoint and use them anywhere you work. Personal skills travel with you across SharePoint sites and OneDrive—so a skill like document generation works everywhere without recreating it per site. You own your skills, saved as a markdown file in your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567668

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Shared & Delegate Mailbox Scheduling for Events – Empower Chiefs of Staff and delegated roles to efficiently organize events on behalf of leaders or teams using shared or delegated mailboxes. By sending trusted invites from the chosen mailbox, this capability ensures consistent identity, improved trust, and smoother event setup. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561912
• 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: Room availability signal for Teams events – In the Events app in Teams, Teams events organizers will now be able to see if the chosen room or space they have selected for their event is available at the designated time or not. This feature is available for any Teams event organizer with a Teams Enterprise license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561647
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Queues app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and DoD – We’re excited to announce that the Queues app is now available in the GCC High and DoD clouds. 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: 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: Multi-line Calling on Teams Mobile – Make and receive calls using multiple assigned phone numbers directly from your mobile device – choose the right line for every call, with unified call history and seamless switching across all your lines. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565131
• 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: Events in Meet app in Teams – Users can now use the Teams Meet app to discover events across their organization, track what important events are upcoming, and plan and organize their own professional events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=547834

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Installation Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center – Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center will be able to apply app and agent installation changes once and have them consistently enforced across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Previously, installation changes made in the Microsoft 365 admin center only applied to Outlook and Microsoft 365, while changes made in the Teams admin center only applied to Teams. With this update, app and agent installation is unified across all supported surfaces, enabling a more consistent and streamlined admin experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567883
• Microsoft Teams: Explicit recording and transcription consent for PSTN participants now available in GCC High and DoD – We are introducing explicit recording and transcription consent support for PSTN participants joining Microsoft Teams meetings in GCC High and DoD environments. This feature is already available in Public and GCC clouds and is now being extended to sovereign environments. After this rollout, when a meeting is being recorded or transcribed, PSTN participants will be prompted to provide explicit consent before they can unmute and participate. If consent is not provided, participants will remain muted for the duration of the meeting. This update aligns PSTN behavior with the existing consent experience in Teams clients and enhances compliance by ensuring all participants actively acknowledge recording and transcription. This rollout may impact PSTN users joining meetings where recording or transcription is enabled. We recommend informing users about this change so they are prepared to provide consent when prompted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567304
• Microsoft Teams: Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for DoD environments – Shared display mode in Teams is now available in government DOD environments, enabling more seamless and private meeting hosting from your PC. Additionally, peripheral detection for bring-your-own-device spaces is available for inventory management and reporting through the Pro Management portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567465
• Microsoft Teams: PowerPoint Live Light theme support – Presenting PowerPoint slides in Teams just got better. PowerPoint Live now supports light mode, giving presenters the option to present in light, dark, classic, or high contrast mode based on their preferences and system settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567469
• Microsoft Teams: Expand presenter visibility in ‘Manage what attendees see’ for Teams events – Users will now be able to resize and expand the presenter panel in ‘Manage what attendees see’ options for Teams events. This feature helps make it easier to view, manage, and switch between presenters during events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567467
• Microsoft Teams: Teams events attendance and engagement report policy – Teams events will soon have a separate attendance and engagement report policy from the “CsTeamsMeetingPolicy” attendance and engagement report policy. This will permit admins to allow Teams events organizers to access attendance and engagement reports, while restricting access to Teams meeting attendance and engagement reports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567466
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced live captions settings and right-side panel view – We are improving the live captions experience in Microsoft Teams with new viewing layouts and streamlined configuration options. Users can now view live captions in a new right-side panel, in addition to the existing options of viewing them at the top or bottom of the screen, or popping them out into a separate window. We are also making it easier to manage caption settings directly within the meeting. By clicking the existing gear icon in the live captions pane, users will see a consolidated menu to quickly configure spoken language, caption styles, and profanity filters without navigating to separate settings panels. Additionally, this menu includes a new toggle to turn on live captions by default for all meetings, as well as a new thumbs-up/thumbs-down feedback mechanism to easily share input on the captioning experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567462
• Microsoft Teams: Multilingual recap available with translation button – After meeting recap is automatically generated in the translation language chosen during the meeting, users can continue to change the language of the meeting recap after its generated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567458
• Microsoft Teams: View and manage auto attendant shared voicemails directly in the Queues app – Calls to an Auto Attendant that are routed to voicemail will now appear directly within Queues app. This enables organizations to manage shared Auto Attendant voicemails in a centralized experience, making it easier for teams to track, triage, and respond to customer messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567457
• Microsoft Teams: External presenters can access production controls for Teams events – Organizations can allow external presenters to manage Teams events by granting them access to production controls. Federated (B2B) and guest users can be specified in the “Who has control of production tools” setting, enabling trusted external presenters to run events and manage what attendees see. This feature supports organizations that work with third-party event producers and vendors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567298
• 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

Release – September CY2026

• Microsoft Teams: External phone call routing (GCC High, DoD) – External call routing will provide users the ability to redirect all external phone calls to either voicemail or their unanswered settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567884
• Microsoft Teams: Prevent presence transition to “Do not disturb” setting when screen sharing (GCC High, DoD) – We’re introducing a setting that allows users to opt-out of transitioning presence automatically to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. This ensures that they can continue to receive calls, keeping them connected and responsive without manual presence adjustments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567300
• 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: 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: 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. Who it applies to: Windows endpoints only using the new VDI optimization; supported VDI platforms include Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, Citrix, Omnissa, and Amazon WorkSpaces. What stays the same: All attendee interactivity features remain supported, including captions, DVR, reactions, streaming chat, and Q&A. Additional details: 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. Action required: 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: 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
• Built‑in AI Interpreter for Calls on Teams Phone Devices – With AI Interpreter, Teams Phone Devices provide real‑time language interpretation directly within the call experience. Users can participate naturally in multilingual conversations while the device interprets spoken audio, reducing language barriers and supporting clearer communication in everyday calling scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553594
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• OneDrive: Block screen capture for sensitivity-labeled PDFs in the OneDrive and SharePoint web viewer – The OneDrive and SharePoint web PDF viewer will block screen capture in Microsoft Edge when users open PDFs whose sensitivity (MIP) label without Copy (EXTRACT) permission. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566695

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🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Declarative agents with Actions available in GCC High and DoD – Declarative Agents with Actions enable Microsoft 365 Copilot to take real-world actions by invoking APIs, plugins, and enterprise workflows directly within the chat experience. Using custom actions, declarative agents can call external systems, execute operations, and retrieve or update data, moving beyond Q&A to full task completion. These actions are powered through API plugins, MCP tools, and enterprise connectors, allowing seamless integration with line-of-business applications and services. The Copilot platform dynamically reasons over available actions and selects the appropriate tool to fulfill user intent, enabling multi-step workflows such as creating records, submitting requests, or triggering business processes within a single conversational flow Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=564606
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list support in Agent Builder – Agent Builder now supports using a SharePoint list as a knowledge source for agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Makers can ground an agent in structured list data so users can ask questions and get responses based on information stored in a selected SharePoint list. For this release, each agent can reference one SharePoint list with up to 20,000 items, alongside other knowledge source types. Support for list attachments and lookup columns is not yet available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561920
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find meetings based on topics and keywords – Copilot will be able to find meetings based on topics or keywords from relevant data like meeting body, chat and transcription. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=559110
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot processing content with sensitivity labels supports all storage locations – The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policy to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing sensitive files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will now apply regardless of file storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557255
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Domain exclusion for web grounding – This feature will allow admins to specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503144

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft 365: New profile cards for buildings, rooms and desks  – Buildings, rooms and desks that are added to the Places directory will have new profile cards, accessible from Copilot Chat and across other Microsoft 365 entry points.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553219

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – August CY2026

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI integration in M365 Copilot – This release enables M365 Copilot to reason over Power BI enterprise data and returns grounded answers directly from Power BI reports and semantic models. Users can ask natural‑language questions and receive accurate answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567891
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Agent 365 agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Declarative Agents – Agents that are published to Agents 365 are already managed in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. If the agent implements the Agent2Agent protocol, it can be used as a connected agent for the agents that users build in Agent Builder or Copilot Studio. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567670
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Session and Response Sharing in M365 Copilot – Session and Response Sharing let Microsoft 365 Copilot users share Copilot chat content through a link. Session Sharing shares a full chat session, while Response Sharing shares a single Copilot response. The shared content opens as a read-only view, and recipients can continue from it in their own Copilot chat. This gives Copilot users an easier and more controlled way to share useful Copilot outputs with coworkers instead of copying and pasting. It helps teams reuse work, share context, and collaborate more efficiently while keeping sharing within organizational controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562353
• Planner: Planner Agent chat in Basic Plans – 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=567671
• Microsoft Teams: Multilingual recap available with translation button – After meeting recap is automatically generated in the translation language chosen during the meeting, users can continue to change the language of the meeting recap after its generated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567458
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Power user insights in Copilot dashboard – Understand who is building a habit using Copilot with the new power user insights in Copilot dashboard Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560705
• OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone) – 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. We inadvertently marked this item as rolling out and now have updated it to be accurate. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422324
• 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 – September CY2026

• OneNote: Multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks (Android) – Multimodal capture enables users to transcribe audio, take images, and type notes in a single session. Copilot then creates a structured Copilot Page with insights and user-captured content, saved to a user-selected Copilot Notebook. Designed for capturing offline work moments—including in-person conversations, whiteboard sessions, and personal notes. This capability is already generally available on OneNote for iPhone and iPad. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567895
• Planner: Capabilities in Microsoft Cowork – You’ll soon be able to bring your Microsoft Planner into Microsoft Cowork. In Cowork, you can view, create, and update your plans, buckets, goals, and tasks without switching apps. Cowork goes a step further by helping you execute your Planner tasks across Microsoft 365, such as drafting and sending emails, scheduling meetings, posting updates to Teams, and working with files. It can then write progress back to Planner with your approval. You can move from planning your work to getting it done in one place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567315
• Microsoft Edge: Upgraded Copilot new tab page – Search, chat, and explore the web from one search box with Copilot-suggested actions and curated work content to help your users get things done faster on the Copilot new tab page. Users will see upgraded Copilot new tab page functionality and features. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566703

Release – October CY2026

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel for GCC – Edit with Copilot lets you build and edit workbooks side by side with Copilot. When you’re updating budgets, creating financial models, or analyzing data, Agent Mode uses Excel’s most powerful tools like tables, charts, PivotTables, and formulas to help you get the job done. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=542181

Release – January CY2027

• Microsoft Copilot Studio: Share Autonomous Agents to End Users (Run-Only) – Previously, autonomous agents could only be used and managed by makers, limiting their reach to the people who needed them. Run-only sharing enables makers to securely share autonomous agents with end users, allowing users to benefit from agent-driven automation without requiring edit permissions or ownership. This extends autonomous agent capabilities to a broader audience while maintaining governance and control. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567894

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SharePoint
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OneDrive
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Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing OCR support – Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (DSI) is extending our investigations by adding optical character recognition (OCR), extracting text from images and incorporating it into investigation data. This enables AI-powered deep content analysis to uncover data security risks that are often hidden within visual content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561489
• 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: Data Loss Prevention – Enrich Defender alerts Graph API with DLP event data – Enhance current API infrastructure to provide easy and simple way for customers to export data to integrate with SIEM tools, create automated workflows and generate customizable reports. Today alert data is present in Graph API and DLP rule match event details are present in Management API. This work enriches the graph API with DLP event data to make correlation and integration easy for customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558681
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot processing content with sensitivity labels supports all storage locations – The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policy to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing sensitive files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will now apply regardless of file storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557255
• Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer – Introduces enhanced controls in Content Explorer’s UI, enabling scoped visibility and filtering of SIT and label data. This will help with content discoverability and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=553218

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Block External Domain/User action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive – Block External Domain/User action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, gives organizations stronger control over who can access sensitive files. With this enhancement, admins can configure DLP policies that block file access for specific external domains or individual users. This capability helps prevent unintended exposure by external users and supports enterprise compliance requirements. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557191
• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Data Security Triage Agent in IRM Enhancements – The Data Security Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management is deploying enhancements such as improved user risk and activity explorer pattern summaries to support improved investigation accuracy, context, and decision quality. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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=557683
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content – Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486828

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – July CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to safeguard sensitive information from external 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 Copilot Chat from using sensitive data for external web search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=565870

Release – August CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive – We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567890
• Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Add control to include or exclude Default file paths exclusions for Windows – Previously customers would have system files either included or excluded manually configured. With this feature there is now a capability to provide this by default and have the option of including or excluding those paths. This list is managed by Microsoft to ensure accuracy and ease of management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560057
• 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

Release – September CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on sensitive M365 data for better Data Security and Compliance posture – Insights on sensitive M365 data (OneDrive and SharePoint) and recommendations on retention policies for customers to better govern their sensitive data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562343
• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on Microsoft Copilot and AI Apps interactions for better Data Security and Compliance posture – Provide insights on Copilots and AI Apps usage and recommend retention policies for customers to govern their Copilots and AI App interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561209
• 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
• Microsoft Purview: Integration with Entra GSA Internet Access to enable sensitive file filtering at the network layer – Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to filter sensitive files at the network layer by integrating with Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect files at the network layer and enforce restrictive actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. Updated July 17, 2026: The GA release of this item has moved. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522096
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380721

Release – November CY2026

• Microsoft Purview: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring) – Microsoft Purview introduces the Classifier Simulation Mode, the first phase of the broader Classifier Health Monitoring Platform.This capability enables you to test, analyze, and optimize custom classifiers on production data before publishing them, hence offering a reliable means of verifying the effectiveness of classifiers before committing them to live environments. Custom classifiers are powerful tools but can sometimes include inefficient regex patterns or overly broad logic, leading to Noisy classifier due to high matches, False positives and High scanning latency. Simulation Mode mitigates these risks by allowing you to validate classifier quality and performance before publishing, helping ensure healthy, performant, and more precise classification outcomes.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523201

Release – January CY2027

• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – AI Powered Data Loss Prevention Policy Optimizer – DLP Policy Optimizer uses AI to analyze your organization’s DLP policies, rule structure, and activity signals to identify optimization opportunities that are difficult to detect manually. It highlights overlapping rules, redundant conditions, misconfigurations, and sources of excessive noise, and presents prioritized recommendations with supporting evidence and suggested actions. This enables you to reduce false positives and alert noise, improve policy precision, and simplify policy management with confidence.
   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=564616
• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561552
• Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration with records management  – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558859

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