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The SharePoint tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's ongoing updates to SharePoint and OneDrive, as reported through Microsoft 365 Roadmap items. Recent discussions highlight new PDF comment anchors, item-level permission reports for Everyone and Everyone except external users, and the migration of Viva Connections multi-home management to the SharePoint admin center. The tag also addresses integration with Microsoft Purview, including independent DLP policy tips and hard-delete capabilities for compliance. Administrators will find practical details on sync path limits, security patch cycles, and other changes affecting SharePoint administration and document management in Microsoft 365 environments.
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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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    OneDrive Shortcuts Folder Rolls Out in July 2026 for Cleaner My Files

    Microsoft is rolling out a deceptively useful OneDrive improvement that gives newly added shortcuts a proper home instead of scattering them across the root of My files. Beginning in July 2026, OneDrive on the web can place shortcuts in an automatically created Shortcuts folder, visually...
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    Microsoft Blocks New Restricted SharePoint Search July 31, 2026

    Microsoft 365 is turning the corporate intranet from a polished collection of links into an active layer of the enterprise operating system. In 2026, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft 365 Copilot increasingly work as one connected...
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    Microsoft Purview Retention Archives OneDrive, SharePoint Files in September 2026

    Microsoft is turning retention policy from a largely legal and records-management control into an active storage optimization engine. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 561208 adds an Archive action to Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, allowing organizations to move inactive files covered by...
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    SharePoint Flexible Sections: One-Click Conversion Arrives August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing a substantial usability upgrade for Flexible Sections in SharePoint Pages, addressing several of the rough edges that have made free-form page design powerful but occasionally unpredictable. Scheduled for general availability in August 2026, the update will add familiar...
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    SharePoint File Archiving: Disable Default-On Access Before Pilots

    SharePoint administrators who are not ready for user-driven file archiving should disable tenant-wide file archiving, confirm pay-as-you-go billing and Microsoft 365 Archive prerequisites, verify their SharePoint Online Management Shell version, and then scope and test pilot sites before...
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    SharePoint Hero Links: Pilot Mutable Sharing Before August 2026

    SharePoint administrators should run a focused Hero Link pilot before Microsoft’s planned August 2026 general-availability rollout, because a link that can be edited after distribution changes both recovery options and the consequences of a forwarded URL. The practical goal is not simply to...
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    SharePoint and OneDrive July 2026: External Access Moves to Entra B2B

    SharePoint and OneDrive administrators should use the July 2026 transition to reconcile active external recipients with Microsoft Entra B2B guest accounts, invite the priority people who are missing, and test the exact resources those people need before access becomes urgent. The practical...
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    SharePoint SMAT Support Ends October 1, 2026: Move to SPMT 4.0

    Microsoft’s SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool reaches end of support on October 1, 2026, leaving administrators with a practical choice: capture one final SMAT baseline now if existing migration runbooks depend on its configurable farm discovery, then move ongoing assessment work to...