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The SharePoint tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's document management and collaboration platform, with a focus on recent roadmap changes and admin-facing features. Discussions include Copilot Chat's improved search for scanned PDFs and images stored in SharePoint, Purview Data Loss Prevention email actions for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, and new PDF comment page anchors. Other topics cover item-level permission reports for Everyone and Everyone except external users groups, Viva Connections multi-home site management moving to the SharePoint admin center, and OneDrive desktop path length fixes. The tag is useful for IT professionals tracking Microsoft 365 updates, security controls, and SharePoint administration changes.
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Agents Read Scanned SharePoint PDFs

    Microsoft says newly created Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents can now ground their answers in scanned PDFs and image-based documents referenced from SharePoint, removing a long-standing blind spot for organizations whose operational records were digitized as images rather than created as...
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    PowerPoint Agent Mode: Mac File References Still Unconfirmed

    Microsoft has added a new PowerPoint Agent Mode roadmap item saying Mac users will be able to use files stored in SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders as reference material when generating a presentation. But the entry, Roadmap ID 555897, is not evidence that the capability has...
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    PowerPoint Copilot Folder References Still In Development

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap says PowerPoint’s Copilot Agent Mode will be able to use SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders as reference sources when it creates a presentation, replacing a narrower file-by-file workflow for users preparing decks from a body of organizational...
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    PowerPoint Copilot Agent Mode SharePoint References Not Yet Live

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 roadmap says PowerPoint’s Copilot Agent Mode is being expanded so users can reference files stored in SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders while creating a presentation. The item, Roadmap ID 555894, is listed for PowerPoint on the web and worldwide...
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    Clifford Chance Launches Permissioned Copilot Knowledge Bank

    Clifford Chance has put more than 400,000 reclassified and AI-summarised legal documents into a new firm-wide Knowledge Bank built on Microsoft 365 and Azure, with a custom permission-aware search layer intended to make the material usable by Microsoft Copilot without exposing confidential...
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    Copilot Chat Improves Search for Scanned PDFs and Images

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is being positioned to retrieve text from scanned PDFs and from images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files—a useful expansion for organizations whose records are full of screenshots, photographed whiteboards, and legacy paper documents. But the practical...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Email Actions Still Listed as Preview

    Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention notifications can now put remediation controls inside an end user’s email for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, letting recipients remove sharing links, delete a file, apply a label, request an override, or report a false positive without first...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Email Actions Remain Preview Despite Launch — Megathread

    Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention notifications can now put remediation controls into an employee’s mailbox for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 527831. The change matters because a DLP event that previously sent a user back into the file’s...
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    OneDrive and SharePoint PDF Comments Get Page Anchors in October

    Microsoft plans to add anchored comments to the PDF viewer used by OneDrive and SharePoint on the web, giving reviewers a way to attach a discussion to a precise location on a page or to a selected passage of text. The feature is listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 569020, remains “In...
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    SharePoint Rolls Out Item-Level Everyone and EEEU Reports

    Microsoft has moved Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 561038 into Rolling out status for SharePoint, promising SharePoint Advanced Management administrators a detailed view of item-level permissions granted through the broad Everyone and Everyone except external users special groups. The practical...
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    OneDrive Desktop Will Guide Users Through 520-Character Path Fixes

    OneDrive desktop users will soon receive a more useful response when a file path exceeds the sync client’s 520-character ceiling. Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 557563, added to the roadmap on July 30, says the OneDrive client will show exactly how far over the limit an affected path is and provide...
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    Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 570 Flaws as AI Backlog Grows — Megathread

    Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 570 vulnerabilities across its products, but a new report suggests the company’s own AI-assisted security testing is uncovering flaws faster than engineering teams can remediate them. For Windows administrators, the practical message is not to treat...
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    Viva Connections Multi-Home Management Moves to SharePoint Admin Center in August 2026

    Microsoft plans to move Viva Connections multi-home site management from the Microsoft 365 admin center to the SharePoint admin center in August 2026, consolidating a key part of employee-experience administration with SharePoint’s intranet controls. Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567887 says...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Separates Policy Tips From Emails

    Microsoft is rolling out a meaningful but understated change to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for SharePoint and OneDrive: administrators can now configure policy tips and email notifications independently when building DLP rules. The update, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
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    Microsoft Purview Hard Delete Will Bypass OneDrive, SharePoint Bins

    Microsoft is preparing to give compliance teams a much sharper—and far more consequential—deletion tool: hard delete for OneDrive and SharePoint content through Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management’s Priority cleanup workflows. Listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 558343, the capability is...
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    Microsoft Purview Hard Delete for OneDrive, SharePoint Planned for October 2026 — Megathread

    Microsoft is preparing a consequential expansion to Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: a hard-delete option for Priority cleanup policies targeting OneDrive and SharePoint. The capability, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 561034, is listed as in development with general availability...
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    Microsoft 365 Governance Moves Beyond IT With Syskit

    Microsoft 365 governance has become a business discipline because the platform now sits at the center of how organisations communicate, store knowledge, share sensitive files, build lightweight applications and increasingly prepare data for AI-assisted work. The key shift is not that IT has lost...
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    Microsoft Copilot Adds GPT-5.5 Thinking, Not New Free o1 Access

    Microsoft Copilot’s reasoning capabilities are becoming easier to access across consumer and business experiences, but reports that Microsoft has just made OpenAI’s o1 model free for all users and is exposing its complete chain of thought substantially overstate — and in key places misstate —...
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    Microsoft Purview SharePoint Labels to Cover Existing Files

    Microsoft is preparing a significant expansion of Microsoft Purview Information Protection for SharePoint: default sensitivity labels configured at the document-library level will be able to reach files already stored in that library. The roadmap item, identified as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: Fix Oversharing Before Enabling AI Agents

    BusinessDay reports that AI assistants are becoming more useful precisely because they can reach beyond a single prompt: calendars, email, documents, meetings and, increasingly, connected business systems. That same breadth turns an ordinary productivity deployment into a data-governance...
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    • ai governance ai privacy cloud security copilot copilot privacy copilot security data governance data protection data security enterprise security governance microsoft 365 microsoft copilot sharepoint
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