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 33 new additions to the roadmap over the last week.
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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:
SharePoint
Teams
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (2)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- SharePoint: AI overview for SharePoint News posts in the SharePoint app for Teams – Users will be able access an AI generated audio summary of SharePoint News posts in the SharePoint app for Teams (Viva Connections).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562018
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- SharePoint: Cross-post SharePoint News to Engage – This feature allows SharePoint News authors to distribute posts to an Engage community or storyline while preserving full fidelity rendering and a unified conversation experience. SharePoint News post will appear consistently in Engage across feeds, digests, Outlook, Teams, desktop, web and mobile apps. When distributed, the SharePoint News comments module is replaced with the richer Engage conversation module, ensuring a single, shared discussion thread across surfaces.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=568074
- 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – November CY2026
- SharePoint: AI input widget and content preview in Copilot – With this new capability, users of Copilot in SharePoint will be able to view saved and unsaved preview content side by side with chat. Users will also be able to interact with created HTML forms and confirm responses to send to chat.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=574106
- SharePoint: Governance Reviews Dashboard for Site Owners – Site owners have a critical role to play in ensuring accuracy of site information, including the site’s necessity, its owners, members, permissions, and sharing settings. We’re introducing the Governance Reviews. Dashboard in Private Preview, a centralized view where site owners can see all pending site governance reviews (inactivity, ownership, attestation) across the sites they own. The dashboard shows required actions, due timelines, and site enforcement status and allows site owners to take action directly from one place. Combined with consolidated policy notifications, it replaces multiple emails with a single, actionable governance surface.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=560541
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (3)
- In development (9)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap – Meeting organizers can now easily delete meeting generated content including recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes through the new delete button in recap page. Shared files in the meeting won’t be deleted.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557170
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: QR code protection in Teams messaging – Microsoft Teams will provide additional protection for QR codes shared by external users in messages. Images containing QR codes from external senders will be obscured by default and require users to reveal them before viewing or scanning. This helps reduce the risk of phishing and fraud by encouraging more deliberate interaction with QR code content.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570439
- Microsoft Teams: Admins can control profanity filtering in meeting transcripts – Teams administrators will be able to use a meeting policy to control whether profane words are masked in live transcription and saved meeting transcripts. Filtering remains on by default. When an organizer is assigned a policy that turns filtering off, profane words can appear without masking in both the live and saved transcript, while live captions continue to follow each participant’s existing profanity setting.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570467
- 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – November CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Events now support up to 20,000 registrations, making it easier to reach and engage larger audiences at scale – Connect with more attendees than ever before with Teams Events, now supporting up to 20,000 registrations for organizers with valid Attendee packs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=574110
- Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Android – When a Teams Rooms on Android device 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=574107
- Microsoft Teams: External presenter support for event group chat – Event group chat, the private chat for organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in an event or structured meeting, will support external presenters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573706
- Microsoft Teams: Event Chat now available for Events optimized for a large audience in GCC – All users in Events larger than 1,000 users or in any Event optimized for a large audience can now chat with one another in a public event chat in GCC. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573625
- Microsoft Teams: Streaming switchboard for Network Device Interface (NDI) Sources – For Teams meetings and events, a new streaming switchboard will soon be available to easily manage and send NDI sources out to production software. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573453
- Microsoft Teams: Invite attendees to register – For an event that needs registration, send email invites to the selected people and groups who will be invited to register to the event Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573250
- Microsoft Teams: Third-party synthetic audio and video detection in Microsoft Teams – Organizations can enhance meeting security with synthetic audio and video detection solutions provided by certified third-party providers. Third-party detection solutions analyze meeting media for signs of synthetic or manipulated audio and video and send detection signals to Teams, enabling integrated in-meeting experiences and controls. Important: Synthetic media detection is performed by the third-party provider. Microsoft Teams provides the platform integration and experiences for surfacing and acting on detection signals from supported providers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573451
- Microsoft Teams: Impersonation Protection for Teams meetings – Impersonation Protection for Teams meetings helps users identify potentially deceptive participants and meeting organizers. When Teams detects a potential impersonation attempt, it surfaces warnings and risk indicators to help users recognize suspicious identities and make more informed decisions when joining or participating in a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573157
Release – December CY2026
- Microsoft Teams: Pro Management portal Analytics & Reports Design Refresh – We are refreshing the way we organize the Analytics & Reports area in the Pro Management portal to make it more user-friendly.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=574362
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
OneDrive
- Launched (0)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (3)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- N/A
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
- N/A
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Copilot
- Launched (5)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (7)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap – Meeting organizers can now easily delete meeting generated content including recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes through the new delete button in recap page. Shared files in the meeting won’t be deleted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557170
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation – You can now reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555886
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box – When users insert content in a prompt using ‘Add Work Content’ under the Plus menu, the content will only appear as a pill in the Input Box UI and will not be repeated as part of the user’s prompt. This helps to simplify the Input Box and reserve it for prompt creation. Updated April 22, 2026: We are moving this item back to In Development and will be relaunching after further updates. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=552592
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Improved discovery of Copilot connector sources in Microsoft 365 Copilot (optionally add chat) with Content Source filter(s) – Improved discovery of Copilot connector sources in Microsoft 365 Copilot (optionally add chat) with Content Source filter(s). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502541
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word – Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word files using the Copilot chat pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489825
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Copilot Studio: Conversational configuration of connectors in Copilot Studio – Configure the connectors your agent needs, with a simple in-chat sign-in instead of a full settings experience.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=569930
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – October CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduling with Copilot – Users can now schedule appointments and meetings directly from chat. Simply ask Copilot to create an appointment or schedule a meeting with colleagues, and it will find available times, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites—all within the chat experience.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573220
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio Overview updates in Copilot Notebooks – We’re rolling out new capabilities for Copilot Notebook audio overview that make it easier to navigate longer content with topic-based episodes, new audio formats such as Critique and Debate, support enterprise information protection with sensitivity labels, and expand audio overview context to more content types.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570966
Release – November CY2026
- Microsoft Copilot Studio: Discover and use shared plugins in Copilot Studio – Copilot Studio now connects to Microsoft’s shared plugin registry, making it easier for makers to discover and use plugins, connectors, and other available capabilities. This integration provides a more consistent way to extend agents with capabilities across Microsoft’s AI ecosystem. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570669
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in OneNote can create, edit, and refine content – Copilot in OneNote can generate new content and directly edit when in edit mode. In this mode you can create, rename, and delete pages, sections, or notebooks as well as add or edit content in pages. Copilot can bring content from across WorkIQ as well as complete actions across other workflows such as creating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573446
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Workforce Insights Agent – Workforce Insights (WFI) Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is an agent designed to help leaders, managers, and their delegates quickly understand their organization by turning complex workforce data into clear, actionable insights. With WFI Agent, leaders can quickly explore their organization’s structure, team composition, skills inventories, and flexible work patterns to move from insight to action in a single, unified experience directly in Copilot or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515145
- Microsoft Edge: Adding contextual nudges to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon – Edge for Business will soon help users quickly take contextual action on their open pages using contextual nudges attached to the Copilot icon in the toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=537284
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Engage – Community Agent – Community Agent helps members get answers to questions in Viva Engage communities using community knowledge and connected sources. Community admins can choose to require human review before answers are posted or allow automatic posting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499898
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (3)
- In development (10)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and Label Policy Configurations – A new export functionality will be introduced in two locations: the Data Loss Prevention > Policies page and the Information Protection > Label publishing policies page. This feature will allow users to export their existing DLP configurations and label policies, including schema, as a downloadable ZIP file. The exported file can be attached to support tickets to accelerate troubleshooting.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566321
🚂 ROLLING OUT
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – November CY2026
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Sensitivity Labels for Microsoft Entra Security Groups – Apply sensitivity labels to Microsoft Entra cloud security groups to extend the classification and governance you already use for Microsoft 365 groups. The same labels you publish in the Microsoft Purview portal and configure for groups and sites apply automatically to cloud security groups, with no separate label configuration required.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=568217
Release – January CY2027
- Microsoft Purview: DSPM – New Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management Experience – At Ignite, Microsoft is introducing a major evolution of Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to help organizations strengthen data security and confidently embrace AI. The new DSPM experience unifies visibility and control across traditional data and AI-driven environments, delivering outcome-based guided workflows that turn insights into actionable steps—so teams can prioritize risks and remediate faster. It brings AI observability, enhanced posture reporting, and intelligent Security Copilot agents to automate tasks like triage and policy management. Plus, Purview now extends coverage beyond Microsoft data with third-party signals from partners like BigID, Cyera, OneTrust, and Varonis, giving security teams a single, streamlined view of sensitive data across clouds and platforms. Together, these innovations make DSPM the central hub for managing data security posture in the era of AI. We are also extending Data Risk Assessments to Fabric and to item-level analysis with new remediation actions like bulk disabling of overshared SharePoint links.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=561036
Release – March CY2027
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=160008
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