Collaboration

Access Services for SharePoint Online Discontinued Updated: January 26, 2026 Access Services was removed from SharePoint Online (and SharePoint Server SE) in Apr. 2018 Office...more SharePoint Spaces Provide Mixed Reality for Collaboration Updated: January 26, 2026 SharePoint Spaces was removed by Aug. 2025 SharePoint spaces will introduce mixed reality workspaces to...more SharePoint Business Connectivity Services to Be Retired Updated: January 26, 2026 SharePoint Business Connectivity Services is retired as of Sep. 2024 SharePoint Business Connectivity Services (BCS)...more Work IQ Models Work for Microsoft 365 Copilot January 22, 2026 Work IQ is the latest service to analyze Microsoft 365 tenant data for work patterns...more M365 Copilot Adds Choice (and Risk) with Anthropic’s Claude January 20, 2026 Microsoft has partnered with Anthropic, adding its Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot (M365 Copilot)....more Viva Packaging for Microsoft 365 Users Updated: January 6, 2026 The most commonly used end-user features of Viva are built into Microsoft 365 licenses. Customers...more SharePoint 2013 Workflows: Admins Should Act Now November 11, 2025 SharePoint 2013 workflows are legacy technology and should be replaced. Microsoft is removing SharePoint 2013...more Teams Premium Goes Beyond Meetings and Webinars  November 10, 2025 Teams Premium is an add-on User Subscription License (User SL) that adds capabilities to users...more AI Comes to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition November 4, 2025 Document Intelligence, a new feature for summarizing files in SharePoint Server SE, uses Azure OpenAI....more Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat in Office Apps October 20, 2025 M365 Copilot for Office Applications primarily assists individuals but can streamline Office-centric processes for some...more Project Online to Shut Down Sept. 30, 2026 Updated: September 22, 2025 The Project Online service will shut down in Sept. 2026 and remove access to all...more Planner Is The Future of Project Updated: September 8, 2025 Planner is now Microsoft’s focus for project management, but Project Desktop and Project Server SE...more Places Update for Admin, Desk Booking September 5, 2025 Microsoft Places app administrators now have an editor to update buildings, rooms, desks, and other...more Microsoft Researcher Agent Can Speed Decision-Making, But Check Your Work August 8, 2025 Microsoft Researcher can accelerate complex decision-making by using deep reasoning and retrieval across business and...more SharePoint Alerts Retiring: What You Need to Know August 7, 2025 Microsoft appears to be moving aggressively to retire SharePoint alerts by July 2026, which could...more Understanding Microsoft’s Licensing for Entra ID Governance for External Users August 2, 2025 Entra ID Governance can now be licensed for management of external users. The licensing model...more

Communication Services Overview July 3, 2025 Viva Packaging for Microsoft 365 Users June 30, 2025 Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: May 11, 2025 Teams Calling Services October 2, 2023

  Product Reference SharePoint Online Updated for M365 Copilot and compliance.   Product Reference SharePoint Server SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 are retiring in 2026. SPSE has a new deployment model.   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, formerly known as Office 365 ProPlus, is a suite of...more   Product Reference Office for the Web Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more   Product Reference Office Online Server Office Online Server is retiring Dec. 31, 2026   Product Reference Project Online Project Online is a cloud service for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting time...more   Product Reference Places Microsoft Places is a set of advanced work-scheduling features for Teams and Exchange Online, intended...more   Product Reference Communication Services Azure Communication Services is a set of cloud services and APIs that allow developers to...more   Licensing Reference Azure Communication Services Service and APIs for voice chat and other communication services that developers can build into...more   Product Reference Purview Message Encryption Microsoft Purview Message Encryption is a Microsoft-hosted service that encrypts e-mail messages, providing end-to-end, persistent...more   Product Reference To Do To Do is a service for managing a user’s task lists across devices that is...more   Product Reference Project Server Project Server is a SharePoint Server application for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting...more   Product Reference Project Legacy Clients The Project client applications provide project and resource management for project managers.   Product Reference Planner Microsoft Planner is a Microsoft-hosted work management tool that includes basic task and project management...more   Product Reference Teams Phone Teams Phone, named Phone System prior to Jan. 2022, is a hosted public exchange (PBX)...more   Product Reference Teams Premium Teams Premium is an add-on User Subscription License (User SL) that provides additional capabilities on...more

Business Applications Roadmap

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