Business and Server Applications

Is Copilot Search the Next Generation of Enterprise Search? October 13, 2025 Copilot Search is the default in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for licensed users, potentially...more Understanding Copilot for SharePoint October 7, 2025 Copilot for SharePoint can reduce the effort of managing Web pages but does not offer...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 Improving Data Analysis with Microsoft Analyst Agent August 26, 2025 Microsoft Analyst can accelerate complex data analysis to deliver insights using a small reasoning model...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 Places Ready for Evaluation, but Future Unclear Updated: July 25, 2025 Microsoft Places features can benefit Teams and Exchange Online customers whose employees move frequently between...more Understanding SharePoint Agents July 24, 2025 SharePoint agents can empower users with default and custom low-code AI solutions for SharePoint sites....more Microsoft 365 Education: Differs from Enterprise by Degrees Updated: July 23, 2025 Microsoft 365 Education offers most of the features included in commercial enterprise Microsoft 365 offerings,...more Begin Move to Exchange Server SE to Keep Support  July 3, 2025 Organizations running Exchange in their own data centers must migrate quickly to Exchange Server SE. ...more Viva Packaging for Microsoft 365 Users June 30, 2025 The most commonly used end-user features of Viva are built into Microsoft 365 licenses. Customers...more Exchange Server: Migrate Off Legacy Versions by Oct. 2025 Updated: June 27, 2025 Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 customers will have 90 days or less under product support...more DSPM for AI: Protecting Your Content from Prying AIs June 24, 2025 DSPM for AI increases visibility into where an organization’s sensitive data is, how it is...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 Project Online Project Online is a cloud service for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting time...more   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more   Product Reference Places Microsoft Places is a set of advanced work-scheduling features for Teams and Exchange Online, intended...more   Product Reference Skype for Business Server Skype for Business Server is an on-premises product that provides a unified communications solution for...more   Product Reference Exchange Server Exchange Server provides e-mail communication and manages calendars, contacts, and tasks.   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   Product Reference Teams Meetings and Events Microsoft Teams is commonly used for audio and video meetings and broadcast events, which are...more   Product Reference Outlook Summary of Outlook e-mail, and scheduling apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, and the...more

Business Applications Roadmap

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