Roadmap, security and documentation changes captured for Microsoft 365.
<p>In learning activities, students can rehearse presentations, receive feedback on their delivery, and practice again with targeted suggestions to improve clarity and confidence.</p> <p>#education</p>
<p>Bring Minecraft Education to every classroom with AI-powered tools that match curriculum goals to Build Challenges, blend lessons with project-based learning, launch directly from Learning Zone, and give you full visibility into participation, completion, and student understanding.</p> <p>#education</p>
<p>See where your class is struggling and which students need support, with lesson-level results for every student. Aggregated responses show the mistakes many students made in a lesson. You can then open each student's answers to plan targeted follow-up.</p> <p>#education</p>
<p>People can set expiration dates for “Anyone” and “People in your organization” access on the main link to files and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint. New administrator policies can Administrators can set policies to require expiration and enforce a maximum access duration, with separate settings for OneDrive and SharePoint. These controls help organizations align content sharing with their data governance requirements. When access expires, the main link remains, and permissions granted directly to individuals are preserved.</p>
<p>Frontier is expanding to bring eligible public preview features across Microsoft 365 into one program. Users enrolled in Frontier can get eligible previews for new Outlook for Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot, managed through a single admin-controlled enrollment experience. Frontier enrollment is optional and separate from Standard and Deferred release preferences for generally available features. Existing Frontier users do not need to re-enroll.</p>
<p>We’re expanding cost management for Microsoft Copilot Studio into the Microsoft 365 admin center. This gives administrators a more centralized way to manage Copilot Credit spend across usage-based AI workloads while retaining Copilot Studio cost management capabilities in the Power Platform admin center.<br> With this update, administrators can bring supported Copilot Studio environments and agents under Cost Management spending policies. Resource-based policies for environments and agents are the first planned scopes, with broader user and group policy support planned for a later phase.<br> Furthermore, this update will introduce cost data into cost management and agent registry for AI services and agents built on Microsoft platforms (e.g., Cowork, Microsoft Copilot Studio agents).</p>
<p>New export improvements are coming to Cloud Update, making it easier for organizations to access and analyze device data. These enhancements will expand export capabilities across Inventory and Cloud Update device views, include additional device and update information, and allow admins to export filtered results so they can focus on the devices most relevant to their needs.</p>
<p>Educators can provide a Copilot starter prompt from Student AI Guidelines in Teams and LMS Assignments. Students open Copilot with the educator's prompt ready in their chat, helping them begin with instructions tailored to the assignment.</p>
<p>Educators can assign Study and Learn from Student AI Guidelines in Teams and LMS Assignments. Students open guided learning support grounded in the assignment's title, instructions, and supported files and resources, helping them work through concepts and practice their understanding.</p>
<p>Update Repair helps admins identify Windows devices with Microsoft 365 Apps that are out of date or experiencing update issues. In the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, admins can review device status and recommended actions, remotely start Online Repair for eligible devices, and follow manual remediation guidance for devices that need attention. Repair reinstalls Microsoft 365 Apps using the latest available build for the device’s configured update channel.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Cloud Update is expanding rollback options for devices on Monthly Enterprise Channel. Administrators will be able to roll back devices to a release from two versions prior, with the latest available security updates for that release, and keep devices in the rolled-back state across subsequent releases until they are ready to resume updates. This provides additional time to investigate and resolve compatibility issues while maintaining security coverage and centralized control through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center.</p>
<p>A backup and recovery feature that lets you recover team & channel data (like files, messages exchanged over channels) in Microsoft Teams to a previously known good state after accidental changes or security compromises. Supported items include Team, Channels (Standard, Private, Public) and underlying data. Retention period supported is 30 days.</p>
We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service is now available in the GCC-High (GCC-H) environment! Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service enables rapid ingestion of organizational/HR data through connectors from multiple HRIS systems using a single unified ingestion point. This service also provides organizational data for use across Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 apps to power various features with robust data quality framework that detects, communicates, and provides solutions for data quality issues before data is used.
Enable extended 30-day backup and recovery for a tenant's Entra objects via the Microsoft 365 Backup native app or M365 Backup Storage platform APIs. This capability allows customers and ISV apps to do a point in time restore of Entra objects to a last known good state to a rolling historical 30-day point. Advanced recovery features are currently limited to the Entra admin portal, but some user recovery actions will be possible via the M365 Backup native app UX in the M365 Admin center. Note that the existing 7-day recovery that comes with a customer's P1 & P2 licenses is already generally available and is independent of this roadmap item.
Transfer ownership of a meeting or recurring meeting series to another person in your organization. The new organizer must accept the transfer before it is completed. This helps maintain continuity for long-running meetings while preserving the existing event for attendees. Available in Outlook for Windows and web and Teams calendar.
<p>Enable educators to assign different content (attachments, resources, instructions) to different Individual Groups within a single Assignment. Today teachers must create separate assignments to differentiate — one for advanced readers, another for struggling students, etc. This feature collapses that into one assignment with group-specific content mapping.<br> Key capabilities:<br> Map different content to different Individual Groups within one Assignment<br> Students only see content assigned to their group<br> Clear group-to-content mapping visible to the educator before publishing<br> Differentiated content does not change submission or grading behavior<br> Content created using existing Assignment resource workflows (no new content surfaces)</p> <p>#education</p>
<p>We're enhancing the Exchange Online Message Recall feature to add support for cross-tenant recalls. Today, you can recall messages only within your organization. Cross-tenant recall will let you recall messages sent to other organizations that add your tenant to their recall allow list.</p>
We are introducing new Power Automate integration capabilities for forms in SharePoint, enabling customers to create automated workflows based on responses collected using list forms, file upload forms, and document generation forms. With this update, a new trigger and action are now available in Power Automate: Trigger: When a form is submitted This operation triggers a flow when a list form, document generation form, or file upload form is submitted. Customers can use this trigger to initiate automated workflows such as approvals, notifications, or routing based on form submission events. Action: Get form metadata This action retrieves the metadata of a form, which includes the form ID, title, link, form type, output format, and the form questions used to collect information. This enables Power Automate flows to dynamically read form schema before executing downstream automation logic. Disclaimer: Document generation forms are part of AI in SharePoint Public Preview. Access to DocGen Forms capabilities may be limited to customers enrolled in the preview program. List forms and file upload forms are not part of the AI in SharePoint preview.
Today, Copilot can show up to 25 meeting results, which can limit visibility in larger calendars. We’re expanding this limit so you can see more relevant meetings at once making it easier to find, review, and act on the full context you need.
<p>Recipient groups in eSignature allow a recipient slot to be assigned to multiple people, such that any one of those people can fulfil the signing requirement on behalf of the group.</p>
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
Copilot Notebooks enables users to generate PowerPoint presentations directly from the content and references collected in a notebook. Using the notebook’s curated context, Copilot creates a structured, editable slide deck that users can open and refine in PowerPoint, helping turn research, notes, and insights into shareable presentations more quickly.
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.
<p>New improvements are coming to the rollout wave functionality for Cloud Update. These enhancements will allow organizations to continue leveraging Microsoft Entra ID groups to set up rollout waves, with increased flexibility to configure more than the current limit of three waves. Additionally, admins will be able to assign custom delays between each wave, streamlining phased deployments and offering greater control over update distribution.</p>
Use device selection criteria in Cloud Update to assign profiles using Microsoft Entra ID groups and streamline the onboarding process. Admins can combine channel and profile assignment in a single step, making it easier to move devices between update channels and maintain consistent update management across the organization.
Use enhanced error reporting in Cloud Update for Microsoft 365 Apps updates to access clear, descriptive error messages that help you easily identify why an update did not complete successfully. Admins can review comprehensive insights across all Cloud Update-managed devices and drill down into individual devices for detailed information. This improved feature expands on the existing upgrade progress insights by grouping issues according to error codes and providing straightforward descriptions. These advancements enable admins to diagnose problems more efficiently, reduce support escalations, and take decisive corrective actions to boost monthly compliance rates.
Give users a fast, built‑in way to capture screenshots and include them in Copilot prompts, helping them communicate visual context more easily and receive more accurate, actionable assistance.
<p>This update introduces a co-branding experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app that helps organizations present an admin approved visual identifier directly within the Chat screen. Specifically, the experience enables administrators to leverage the organization-supported logo already managed in the Microsoft Admin Center theming settings and display it in the footer of the Chat screen, paired with a fixed label: “Approved by”.</p>
This feature introduces admin controls for managing Anthropic as a model provider for specific users and groups in the tenant.
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.
<p>Allows the administrator of an Exchange Online tenant to change the organizer of an existing meeting or meeting series via a PowerShell cmdlet. This can be used, for example, to maintain continuity and history of a long-running meeting series in cases where the meeting organizer has a new role, is on leave, or during the offboarding process. Once the meeting is transferred, the new organizer will be able to maintain all properties of the event including meeting time and recurrence, attendees, and description. Meeting attendees within the Exchange Online tenant will not need to re-RSVP and the existing event on their calendar will be silently updated with the new meeting organizer information.</p> <p>A subsequent feature will enable users to to change the organizer via Modern Calendar in OWA, New Outlook, and Teams. For user-initiated transfers the new organizer must accept the meeting before the transfer completes.</p>
We are enhancing the room booking experience in the new calendar experience across Outlook for Windows, Outlook for the web, and Teams by introducing a map view within Places Finder. This update replaces the existing side panel with a full screen, easier to use interface that helps people quickly find and book the right space.
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.
We’re introducing a visual refresh of the Access Denied web experience across Microsoft 365, where users can request access to files, sites, and meeting recordings. This update features a modern Fluent design with new illustrations, animations, and clearer messaging to help users quickly gain confidence and seamlessly continue their collaboration.
We’re enhancing the room booking experience in the Places App to align with the desk booking flow and visuals. This unifies the booking experience across rooms and desks.
Signers will be able to add their electronic signature to PDFs using a stylus, touch, or mouse, in addition to the existing typed signature option.
<p>With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, transform offline discussions into structured, actionable, and searchable content with voice notes in Copilot.</p>
Use scatter image effect directly in Copilot Chat and the create experience to further customize your visual artifacts generated with Copilot.
The refreshed Copilot landing page in Microsoft 365 admin center gives an at-a-glance view of your Copilot journey across Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. It includes success metrics for each pillar, new metrics like active chat users, assisted hours, and satisfaction rate, plus multi-signal, personalized and actionable insights to drive adoption. We’ve added a security pivot for Purview actions and centralized Copilot usage reports under a new usage pivot.
<p>Now users can close a voice session on Windows by simply saying bye or goodbye when they want to close voice session. This, paired with "Hey Copilot" wake word, provides them with complete hands-free experience for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows devices.</p>
People Skills is releasing two updates to give you more control over how others see your skills profile and ease of access for skill profile management. With these updates, you can easily control the order in which the skills you confirm are displayed to others in your profile card. Additionally, you'll find a new deep link directly to skill profile editing from the Skills component on the profile card. These updates will begin rollout to customers in November and are expected to be available to all People Skills customers by December.
We are introducing a dynamic filtering experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot search that empowers users to refine their results more precisely by leveraging data source-specific filters in the right rail. When a user selects a data source from the right rail, such as Outlook, SharePoint, Jira, or Copilot Chats, the interface dynamically presents a tailored set of filters specific to that source. These refiners allow users to narrow down results based on attributes unique to the selected data source, such as item type, status, or semantic labels.
Use rollback by group to selectively revert updates for specific device or user groups managed by cloud update. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
Use rollback all devices to quickly revert updates for all device managed by cloud update and on the latest N-0 release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.
Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup enables administrators to configure backups by granular scopes—such as departments, geographic locations, or member firms—and manage pay-as-you-go charges across multiple Azure subscriptions. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), department-specific backup administrators can be assigned, ensuring management control, and tailored backup management aligned to organizational boundaries.
<p>Use the new PAYGO consumption-based meter to pay for your extra SharePoint storage needs. This reduces the operational overhead associated with purchasing extra storage packs and more seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Archive.</p>
With AI workflows in the Workflows app for Teams & SharePoint document libraries, you can build custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive.
Agent metadata export in Microsoft 365 admin center includes expanded metadata fields, covering Capabilities, Data Sources, Actions, Created In, and Created By. Enables enhanced visibility for auditing, governance, and lifecycle tracking. #copilotcontrolsystem
We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you're using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out.
<p>In product monitoring logs to track all activities related to backup policy configuration & restore related tasks. This will help admins with troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and auditing capabilities.</p>
Documents that have been electronically signed will now be automatically recognized and tagged as “Signed” upon upload to SharePoint. This enhancement also applies retroactively as existing e-signed files will be updated with the appropriate tags. To give users more visibility and control, we’re introducing two optional metadata columns for document libraries: Electronically Signed – Indicates whether a document has been eSigned. Signature Provider – Displays the service used for the eSignature. This feature is available exclusively to tenants with eSignature enabled, helping streamline compliance tracking and document management.
Microsoft 365 companions is a suite of apps, including People, File Search, and Calendar, designed to enhance productivity through quick access to key tools directly from the Windows 11 taskbar. These lightweight apps integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365, allowing users to efficiently look up contacts and navigate organization charts, locate files, view calendars and streamline workflows without distractions.
"Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work. Places helps organizations reimagine flexible work with AI, enables employees to connect more easily in person so that they can make the most of in-office days.
M365 Archive will introduce new search capabilities that allow end-users to easily identify archived content. This feature aims to improve productivity by making archived data searchable by end users so they can identify which site needs to be reactivated.
We are bringing Microsoft 365 Backup Service capabilities to GCC. Microsoft 365 Backup is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users.
<p>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.</p>
Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery App, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery App.
This creates the ability to set longer term retention periods to restore beyond one year.
The Microsoft 365 app name, icon, and UI will evolve to support future AI-first experiences. Key UI changes include reducing the top header and consolidating app-level tools and settings into the App toolbar on the left.
The Microsoft 365 app on Windows added settings to pin the app to the taskbar.
The Microsoft 365 app welcome screen on Windows will be updated to display a welcome message and progress bar while the Microsoft 365 app loads.
Multi-Geo In-Region Routing (IRR) enables customers to control the routing of inbound emails. Using IRR, customers can set the geo-region that inbound mail should be routed to for specific Accepted Domains.
Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service is a 1st party service for migrating Google groups with the M365 Admin center as a new feature, so that Google compete customers moving to M365 would have the ability to automatically create the groups, its members, member conversations and all permissions to M365 Groups without the need to recreate the groups which is the only solution for customers moving from Google.
Google to Entra Identity Sync service is a cloud-2-cloud user Identity onboarding and one way synchronization tool from Google workspace to Entra ID. This will be available as part of the M365 Admin center for Google compete customers moving into M365 to create the identities in M365 farm and move Drive and Mail content into Onedrive and Exchange online
Use a dedicated Backup Administrator role to manage your M365 Backup administration tasks.
Perform file-level browse/search and then restore using Microsoft 365 Backup. With this enhancement you will be able to browse for files across in a site from available daily restore points and apply filters to narrow results, restore at the original location by overwriting existing content or to a new place by creating a copy of the content.
Automatically backup all Exchange or OneDrive users and/or SharePoint sites in the tenant and have the tool automatically add new users/sites to the backup policy.
Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in.