SharePoint Stuff

Microsoft roadmap roundup – 02 November 2026

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more. This week’s update contains 45 new additions to the roadmap over the last week, with Dynamics 365 accounting for over half of them and Copilot adding another…

Anthony

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 45 new additions to the roadmap over the last week, with Dynamics 365 accounting for over half of them and Copilot adding another seven.

Want to support the site? Subscribe for $3.00 to get access

Get a focused look at what’s new in the world of Microsoft 365 this week, plus more when you subscribe today. Find out more here.

Subscribe

That’s it for this week, thanks again for supporting the site! Please see the full Microsoft roadmap roundup below.

Here’s what has changed on the roadmap over the past week:

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms – Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates — such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents — ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=545896

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • SharePoint: Changes to the FAQ web part authoring experience – The SharePoint FAQ web part will provide a standard, non-AI experience for manually creating, editing, and managing FAQs. The AI-assisted FAQ creation and import will move to the Copilot in SharePoint authoring experience, where authors can use natural-language prompts and selected grounding sources to generate FAQ content that is saved to the compatible FAQ web part. Existing FAQ web parts and their content will continue to render without migration Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570647

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December CY2026

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for chats, channels, calls, and meetings in GCC, GCC High, and DoD – Copilot Chat will soon be available across chats, channels, calls, and meetings, helping users stay informed and catch up quickly Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=569214
  • Microsoft Teams: Hide Organizer name in Calendar View on Teams Panels – Admins can now choose whether the organizer name will show up in the Calendar View on Teams panels. Admins can toggle the “Show organizer name” setting ON or OFF in the Pro Management portal or on the panel device. Based on the selection, the organizer name will or will not be shown in the calendar view on the panel device. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Space licenses Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=569423

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November CY2026

  • Microsoft Teams: Workflow to automatically add tag members to relevant channels – Associate channels with a tag so members are automatically added to those channels when they join the tag. This helps teams keep channel membership in sync with evolving groups, reduces manual management, and ensures members have access to the conversations and content most relevant to their role Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577174
  • Microsoft Teams: Near-real-time detection of malicious QR codes in messages – Microsoft Teams will introduce near-real-time detection of malicious QR codes shared in messages. By analyzing destinations embedded in QR codes, Teams can identify potential phishing and fraud threats and apply additional protections to malicious content, extending existing URL protection to QR-based attacks Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=576198

Release – December CY2026

  • Microsoft Teams: Decline a call with a message on Mobile – Users can quickly decline an incoming Teams call and send a predefined message to the caller at the same time. From the incoming call screen, users can select a message such as letting the caller know they’re unavailable or will call back, providing helpful context without having to answer the call or separately open a chat Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577176
  • Microsoft Teams: AI Interpreter for Teams Events – AI Interpreter for Events brings real-time, AI-powered audio interpretation to Teams Town Halls and Webinars, helping global audiences follow events in their preferred language. Organizers can configure supported languages for their event, giving attendees a more natural and engaging multilingual experience beyond translated captions Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=576711
  • Microsoft Teams: Expanded Markdown support in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams is expanding Markdown support in the compose box, giving you more ways to structure and format messages using familiar Markdown syntax. Create richer, more readable messages while staying in the Markdown authoring experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=576199
  • 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, GCC High and DoD – 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, GCC High and DoD Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573625
  • Microsoft Teams: Start side conversations during meetings – Keep collaboration moving without disrupting the main discussion. Start and continue one-to-one or small-group conversations directly from a meeting to ask questions, coordinate next steps, share information, and collaborate in parallel while staying engaged in the conversation, reducing context switching and helping teams stay focused and productive Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=573156
  • Microsoft Teams: Two presenters can share their screens or windows simultaneously in meetings – Two presenters can share a screen or window at the same time in a Teams meeting. Participants can see both shared content streams simultaneously, making it easier to compare and discuss content from different presenters Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=80239
  • Microsoft Teams: Analytics for desk utilization on Teams Pro Management portal – Teams admins can access utilization analytics for Teams bookable desks on Teams Pro Management portal, similar to analytics provided for meeting rooms on the portal today. For utilization analytics to be enabled, a desk needs to have one or more peripheral device associated, and the desk needs to be licensed with Teams Shared Space license or Teams Shared Space – Single Space license Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570648
  • Microsoft Teams: New sharing panel in meetings – improved content discovery and ease of sharing – The sharing panel in today’s meetings is the default place for content discoverability and sharing. New sharing panel UI is crafted with intent of modernising and simplifying default tasks such as window sharing, but also for easier discovery of sharing options and more discoverable file sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502520

Release – January CY2027

  • Microsoft Teams: Activity in other accounts and orgs improvements – Stay up-to-date with what’s happening in your other accounts and organizations with the ‘Activity in Other Accounts and Orgs’ panel. Preview and open chats, channels, and other activity in other accounts and orgs from your main Teams window, without switching tenants Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577901

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • OneDrive: Manage access to the OneDrive Photos Desktop experience – OneDrive is adding administrative controls for the Photos experience on Windows. Organizations can manage whether users sign in with personal Microsoft accounts. These controls help IT teams align OneDrive Photos with their access, data governance, and device-management requirements Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=568931
  • OneDrive: Updated placement of the Create or upload button for Web – OneDrive for the web is updating the placement of the Create or upload button to provide a more consistent file experience across OneDrive and SharePoint. The button will move from the left navigation pane to the right side of the page, bringing familiar navigation from SharePoint document libraries to OneDrive. The available options for creating files and folders or uploading content will remain unchanged Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=572683

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January CY2027

  • OneDrive: Improved max path error experience on desktop – OneDrive desktop sync users now get clearer, more actionable guidance when file paths exceed the supported 520-character limit. The updated experience shows exactly how many characters a path is over the limit and offers a guided flow to rename or move the affected items so they can sync Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=557563

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Copilot

  • Launched (6)
  • Rolling out (6)
  • In development (7)
  • Cancelled (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Search Helps You Discover People – Now Copilot Search can return matching people for your broader people search queries. Allowing you to discover, disambiguate, and explore known and new people to contact. Discover Whether you’re looking for people with a specific skill like “Project leadership” or “Artificial Intelligence” Copilot Search can help you explore potential contacts through the People data source. Disambiguate When there are multiple people matching in exact name, email, or alias Copilot Search will help you disambiguate through a new carousel on the main results page alongside other relevant results Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=555240
  • 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
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio: Invoke agents as workflow steps with the agent node – The agent node lets you embed reasoning directly into your workflow. This means fewer manual handoffs, faster processing times, and workflows that can handle nuanced decisions without additional development effort, helping teams automate more of their end-to-end processes and reduce operational overhead Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566998
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Federated Copilot Connectors will support write, update and delete actions – Federated Copilot connectors (MCP type) currently let Microsoft 365 Copilot read data from third-party services in real time. With this update, the connector tools that create, update, and delete content in those services are unblocked in Copilot Chat, so users can complete work without leaving Copilot. Copilot acts with the user’s own account and permissions at the third-party service, and every create, update, or delete action requires the user’s explicit confirmation before it runs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570964
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms – Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates — such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents — ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=545896
  • Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business – Get relevant answers and insights about your open browser tabs and YouTube videos directly from the Edge side pane Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499423

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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): Planner capabilities in Copilot chat (M365 Copilot) – We will support creating Planner tasks and plans querying Planner information in M365 Copilot chat, allowing users to manage their tasks and plans between Copilot and Planner seamlessly Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516577
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Education] Create multi-week unit plans with Teach – Educators can use Teach in Microsoft 365 Copilot to create structured unit plans that span multiple lessons or weeks. They can customize the plan components to organize connected lesson plans and quizzes across a unit. #education Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577392
  • Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Use bullseye routing with user groups to orchestrate conversations – Bullseye routing with user groups enables a tiered assignment strategy that automatically expands the pool of eligible representatives as conversation wait time increases. Rather than assigning from a fixed pool or waiting for overflow rules to trigger, this approach progressively widens availability in concentric rings—starting with the best-fit representatives and expanding outward as needed. Administrators configure this scenario by associating user groups with a queue and defining wait time thresholds for each tier. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=576606
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for chats, channels, calls, and meetings in GCC, GCC High, and DoD – Copilot Chat will soon be available across chats, channels, calls, and meetings, helping users stay informed and catch up quickly Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=569214
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data – Copilot Chat in Outlook expanding to support reasoning over a user’s entire inbox, calendar and other enterprise data for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=554934

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – October CY2026

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): App Blocks – App Blocks enables M365 Copilot Chat users to turn their requests and data into rich, interactive experiences directly within the conversation, including calculators, dashboards, forms, planners, visualizations, simulations, comparison tools, and other interactive apps. It helps users move beyond static responses to explore data, adjust inputs, visualize outcomes, and simulate workflows in place, while supporting grounded scenarios where current information can be retrieved and then rendered into an interactive experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577743

Release – November CY2026

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot app mode handoffs – The Chat experience in the Copilot app will suggest a better-fit mode based on the user’s prompt, if applicable. For example, it will suggest Cowork or other supported modes as they become available. Users will see a suggestion card after they send a prompt in Chat, with an explanation of the better-fit mode and an option for the user to switch to the suggested mode. Their chat conversation will be attached to the prompt in the new mode to maintain context Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577841
  • Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook – We’ve introduced a new experience for Copilot in the apps—a consistent entry point across apps that sits above your work and understands the context beneath it. Rather than scattering touchpoints across the interface, it anchors Copilot as one connected system across Microsoft 365, surfacing relevant actions that help you stay in flow. With this release, we are rolling out this new experience – already available across other Outlook endpoints, as well as in Word, Excel and PowerPoint – to classic Outlook Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=567007

Release – December CY2026

Release – January CY2027

  • Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot about an image – Ask Copilot about an image in Edge enables users to instantly analyze images from the web by sending them directly to Copilot from the Edge context menu, making it easy to ask questions, gain insights, and understand visual content without leaving their browsing experience. Admins can control availability to this feature using the EdgeEntraCopilotPageContext and Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled policies Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=566864

Release – March CY2027

  • Power Automate: AI-assisted UI Automation repair – A new agentic debug run feature will be available in the flow designer. The UI automation repair interface launches while the flow is running, validating each selector used in the flow. It then proposes a new selector in case an existing one does not work as expected, after the user captures the respective element for reference Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=577869

Release – April CY2027

  • Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage reports – Message consumption for Pay-as-you-go experiences in Copilot Chat. – A new report to help IT admins manage costs for billed messages that are Pay-as-you-go enabled for Copilot Chat. Reporting includes drill down of billed messages per user, per billing policy, per agent-level and agent-user level pair. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490738

❌ CANCELLED

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggested References in Copilot Notebooks – Users can now quickly enrich their Copilot Notebook with relevant Suggested References based on recent user work activity. Update: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=529843
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio: Supercharge your workflows with computer use – Add resilient, AI-powered UI automation directly into your workflows with computer use tools. Makers can build reusable, goal-oriented automations that adapt dynamically to website or app changes, while admins maintain governance through access controls, hosted browser management, and environment-level permissions. Update: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562220

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (6)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November CY2026

  • Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management– Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows – Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=558343

Release – December CY2026

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions – Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=336046

Release – January CY2027

  • Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Legacy Teams retention policies covering Copilot will be treated as Teams-only – Some existing retention policies scoped to Microsoft Teams may currently also apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions. As part of an upcoming change, these legacy Teams retention policies will be converted to—and treated as—Teams-only policies. They will no longer implicitly govern Copilot workloads Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=571306
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Scanner data export for custom reporting – Learn about the state of your scanned repositories and create custom reports with the information protection scanner. Labeling, classification and protection actions on scanned files are stored in SQL tables that form a foundation to feed into custom reports Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494839

Release – February CY2027

  • Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to protect files stored in the excluded folders in Windows – Endpoint DLP now extends protection to files stored in commonly excluded Windows folders, including Temp and AppData. This helps improve coverage by detecting and protecting sensitive data in these locations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=562992

Release – March CY2027

  • Microsoft Purview: Unified Classification Management Experience – The Unified Classification Management Experience unifies every classifier in Microsoft Purview—Sensitive Information Types (SITs), Exact Data Match (EDM), fingerprint SITs, and trainable classifiers—into one place to discover, create, validate, and manage classifiers Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=570844

Recent posts…

Leave a Reply

Recent posts