Each week, Microsoft enriches the Microsoft 365 roadmap, this public dashboard that lists upcoming features for Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot and Purview. The September 14, 2026 edition includes 20 new entries, with a strong emphasis on data governance in Purview and resource reorganization in Teams. If you administer these services without following the roadmap daily, this article gives you the overview and vocabulary needed to understand what's coming — and what you need to prepare for.
Understanding the three statuses of the Microsoft 365 roadmap
Before diving into the details, you need to know the language of the roadmap. Each feature follows a lifecycle marked by a status, and this status determines whether you need to act right away, plan training, or simply keep the information in mind.
Roadmap vocabulary
The Microsoft 365 roadmap is the public dashboard on which Microsoft lists upcoming features for Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot and Purview. Each entry has a status: 🍾 Launched (available to all relevant tenants), 🚂 Rolling out (gradual rollout, tenant by tenant, over several weeks), ⌛ In development (confirmed feature but still under construction, with an indicative date "Release – month CYyear", where CY means Calendar Year).
Memory aid
Think of a package being delivered: In development = the package is being prepared in the warehouse, Rolling out = it's being delivered to some customers, Launched = it has arrived for everyone.
This week, 20 new features were added to the roadmap. The table below summarizes the current distribution by product, across all statuses.
| Product | Launched | Rolling out | In development |
|---|---|---|---|
| SharePoint | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Teams | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| OneDrive | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Copilot | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Microsoft Purview | 1 | 1 | 10 |
Teams: reorganizing resources and rethinking call history
Two features are moving to rollout (🚂) this week. The first, Collect information with list form in Workflows, allows you to start a Workflow — an automation integrated into Teams — with an information collection form that then feeds subsequent steps. The second simply improves the contrast of highlighted text in dark mode and high contrast mode, a useful ergonomic detail for visually impaired users.
On the "in development" side, the most visible announcement for end users concerns conversation organization: Teams will allow pinning important resources — links, files, messages — directly under the header of a chat or channel, with the ability to organize them in folders. Messages already pinned today will remain visible in this new experience, with no migration needed.
The call history in the Teams Calls app will also be thoroughly revised. Missed calls and their associated voicemails will be grouped into a single entry, and capacity increases from 100 to up to 3,000 records or 6 months of history, whichever limit is reached first — real convenience for users managing many incoming calls.
Other notable developments planned for early 2027:
- Meeting Shared Files: add files and links to a meeting for automatic sharing with all participants, used by the Facilitator agent to contextualize its responses (details).
- Teams Rooms on Android: support for breakout rooms and, later, coordinated meetings across multiple Android devices in the same room.
- Reporting policy for Teams events: a separate policy from regular meetings, to separate access to attendance reports.
- Connecting meetings to existing Planner plans: prevents scattering of tasks from plans automatically generated by recurring meetings.
Copilot: sharing responses, memory and enriched video generation
Copilot is the AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 applications, capable of generating content by relying (we speak of grounding) on your organization's data rather than inventing out-of-context responses. Three features are now generally available: more in-depth analytics on Cowork adoption in the Copilot Analytics dashboard, AI-generated videos with new text animations, and improved soundtrack in Clipchamp thanks to a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Among features rolling out, the most structuring for collaboration is Session and Response Sharing: a user can now share a complete Copilot chat session or a single response via a link, opened read-only by the recipient, who can then continue the conversation in their own space. No more copying and pasting Copilot responses into an email. Also noteworthy is the arrival of custom memory in Copilot: the assistant refines the relevance of its responses by leveraging previous exchanges, with these memories remaining private to each user.
On the "in development" side, several items concern searching for content that's difficult to index: Copilot Chat will better exploit scanned PDFs and text present in images embedded in Word, Excel and PowerPoint (screenshots of spreadsheets, scanned contracts, photos of whiteboards). Editing with Copilot in Word and Excel is also coming to GCC environments (Government Community Cloud, the cloud environment dedicated to US government agencies with enhanced compliance requirements).
Watch for
Real-time voice interactions in Word and PowerPoint, initially planned earlier, have been delayed: Microsoft specified on September 9, 2026 that a new version will be rereleased with improvements in October.
Microsoft Purview: data governance and new billing model
Microsoft Purview brings together Microsoft 365's compliance and data governance tools: classification, retention, data loss prevention. It's the product that concentrates the most "in development" items this week (10), with direct impacts on security and IT budget.
The retention policy for Planner content is now generally available: compliance administrators can manage the lifecycle of tasks associated with a Microsoft 365 group. In parallel, DLP Endpoint (Data Loss Prevention) extends its coverage to Copilot+ PC devices to control Recall captures — the Windows feature that takes periodic screenshots of the screen — and prevent capturing windows containing restrictive confidentiality labels or SIT (Sensitive Information Types, such as credit card or Social Security numbers).
Among upcoming developments, two deserve particular attention from an administration perspective:
- DLP for Microsoft Cowork: a single policy can cover both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cowork, by blocking prompts containing SIT or the use of labeled knowledge sources, and preventing sensitive content from being sent to Bing.
- Automatic deletion of inactive OneDrive and mailboxes for departed employees, to keep the tenant compliant without manual intervention.
The most structuring change for budgets concerns the billing meter for Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), the Purview component that manages data retention duration. The historical model charged $0.25 per GB of retained data per month (approximately $0.0082 per GB per day), regardless of message volume. The new model charges based on the number of text messages managed by a DLM policy: each prompt and response from non-Microsoft 365 generative AI is counted individually, at the rate of $6 per million text messages per month.
Billing migration to anticipate
Customers will need to migrate from the old meter to the new one. According to Microsoft's current analysis, the overall cost impact should be neutral or even favorable, but each tenant should verify its own message volume before the switch rather than relying on the announced average.
SharePoint and OneDrive: more targeted adjustments
SharePoint has only one item this week, but it changes how FAQs are created. The FAQ web part (a web part is a reusable block of content on a SharePoint page) will become a standard experience again, without integrated AI assistance: AI-assisted FAQ creation moves to the Copilot authoring experience in SharePoint, where you can generate content from natural language prompts and selected reference sources. Existing FAQs will continue to display normally, with no migration needed.
OneDrive is moving faster, with two features already generally available: a redesigned Libraries view that replaces the old "More places" experience, and the ability to use SharePoint document library views directly from OneDrive. A more distant update (June 2027) expands macOS synchronization to 1 million items, but only for devices on the Insiders ring meeting hardware requirements — others remain capped at 300,000 items without service interruption.
What to remember and check this week
This edition confirms a underlying trend: Microsoft is consolidating AI governance (DLP for Cowork, Copilot memory, session sharing) while modernizing Teams' basic ergonomics (calls, pinned resources). Here are the points to put on the agenda depending on your role:
- Teams administrators: prepare user training on the new pinned resource organization and expanded call history, planned for October 2026.
- Purview administrators: plan the DLM meter migration before the December 2026 deadline, and evaluate extending DLP to Microsoft Cowork if your organization already uses generative AI.
- SharePoint administrators: verify who uses the AI-assisted FAQ web part today, as this capability migrates to the Copilot authoring experience.
- Copilot teams: test Session and Response Sharing as soon as it rolls out, it's the most direct lever to reduce copying and pasting AI responses between colleagues.
If your organization operates in a GCC environment, keep a particular eye on Word Copilot edit mode and Advanced Collaboration Analytics items, whose availability timelines are typically offset from standard commercial releases.
