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SharePoint: Changes to the FAQ web part authoring experience

SharePoint FAQ web part will change to a non-AI experience, with AI-assisted creation moving to Copilot.

What you should do

Review the updated authoring experience for the FAQ web part to ensure it meets your needs. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

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. GA date: October CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, SharePoint, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office, SharePoint · verify against the original
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Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management– Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows

Microsoft Purview introduces a hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows, allowing compliance admins to manage data more effectively.

What you should do

Review the new hard delete feature to understand how it can be used to comply with changing legal and compliance requirements. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

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. Prior…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
OneDrive, SharePoint
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv

Admins can now configure Data Loss Prevention policies for SharePoint and OneDrive independently, allowing for more flexible policy settings.

What you should do

Review the new configuration options to ensure compliance policies are set up as required. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips GA date: August CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
Launched, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects SharePoint · verify against the original
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Microsoft Purview: Archive SharePoint files under retention policies

SharePoint Online now supports archiving files based on retention policies, allowing admins to move inactive content to low-cost storage while maintaining compliance and discoverability.

What you should do

Review and update retention policies to include file archiving for cost savings and compliance. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

With the introduction of file archiving support in SharePoint Online, administrators are looking to seamlessly include archiving actions within their existing data retention policies. This means that, in addition to keeping or deleting data, admins want to now leverage Purview DLM to archive files according to organizational requirements, ensuring comprehensive governance across all stages of the content lifecycle in SPO. Retention based file archiving moves inactive content to low-cost storage, lowering costs with no compromise on Compliance, keeping data discoverable and making Copilot resul…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office, SharePoint · verify against the original
Review Recommended

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Retention capabilities based on files Last Accessed in OneDrive and SharePoint

Microsoft Purview now allows applying Retention labels and policies to files in OneDrive and SharePoint based on their last access date. This feature will be generally available in March 2027.

What you should do

Review the new Retention capabilities to ensure compliance with your organization's data management policies. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

Ability to apply Retention labels and policies to items on OneDrive and SharePoint based on when the items were last accessed by an user. GA date: March CY2027

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
OneDrive, SharePoint
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects OneDrive, SharePoint · verify against the original
Review Recommended

CVE-2026-102866: Microsoft Office SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows unauthorized attackers to elevate privileges over a network due to improper cryptographic signature verification.

What you should do

Apply the security update as soon as possible to mitigate the vulnerability. AI-suggested

Microsoft 365 / Office · msrc Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Improper verification of cryptographic signature in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Severity
Critical · CVSS 8.1
Type
Security updates
Services
SharePoint
Tags
Microsoft Office SharePoint, Elevation of Privilege, 2026-Oct
AI analysis
Critical priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects SharePoint · verify against the original