AI-generated audio summaries are now available in SharePoint News posts within the SharePoint app for Teams on desktop and mobile, giving Copilot Premium users another way to catch up on organizational news.
Microsoft has introduced a Copilot Action for the SharePoint page button, allowing editors to configure a predefined prompt for site visitors with a Copilot license.
Microsoft is rolling out co-authoring and autosave for Markdown files in OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling real-time collaboration in the web experience.
Microsoft has enabled SharePoint storage enforcement for Microsoft 365 Developer tenants, capping SharePoint pooled storage at 300 GB.
OneDrive and SharePoint now offer a dedicated Shortcuts folder as an alternative to saving shortcuts in the OneDrive root.
Assistant information now also appears in the Organization section of the profile card, including in Org Explorer, Outlook, and Teams, improving discoverability across Microsoft 365 for users.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention now supports blocking or allowing external access to sensitive SharePoint and OneDrive for Business files by domain or specific email address, moving from Public Preview to general availability.
SharePoint now allows administrators to add new owners or other roles to user-owned SharePoint Embedded containers before a departing employee’s account is deleted, including a new option to copy Loop pages to another workspace.
Microsoft is retiring Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) in SharePoint Online. Organizations should move to Restricted Content Discovery. Organizations using RSS should act, as SharePoint content previously excluded from search can become discoverable once RSS stops enforcing these restrictions.
File-level archiving in SharePoint will be enabled by default for existing Microsoft 365 Archive customers starting in July 2026, changing the behavior from opt-in to opt-out. SharePoint admins should review the tenant settings before July.
After 11 months working with Microsoft on a support case affecting multiple organizations, the SharePoint management team declined to fix the Teams private channel guest access issue. Here are the details explained.
Starting in June 2026, OneDrive for iOS and Android will block sign-ins using SharePoint Server on-premises credentials. Microsoft Entra ID and personal Microsoft accounts are not affected.
Microsoft added a new SharePoint tenant setting to enable or disable email notifications when a Teams meeting recording is deleted after expiration.
SharePoint PAYG storage is now available in public preview, allowing organizations to pay only for storage used above their included quota rather than pre-purchasing additional capacity.
Microsoft is introducing sensitivity label support for video files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive or edited via Clipchamp. The feature is in public preview and disabled by default.
Microsoft introduced Authoritative Sites for SharePoint, allowing administrators to designate sites as trusted sources of organizational information prioritized in Copilot Chat and Copilot Search, with two-class search results for your users.
Microsoft has integrated Microsoft 365 Backup Management into the SharePoint Admin Center, consolidating backup configuration and management for SharePoint and OneDrive in a single location.
Copilot in SharePoint is transitioning from opt-in to opt-out, meaning Copilot will be enabled by default on all SharePoint sites for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users starting in June 2026. Admins should review their SharePoint tenant settings.
Microsoft has rebranded AI in SharePoint to Copilot in SharePoint, surpassing even Bing Chat Enterprise as the shortest-lived Copilot brand.
Microsoft has released Extended SharePoint Permissions (ESP) to general availability, keeping SharePoint access controls attached to files even after they leave the library.