SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2025

This month's (eggs) updates include: Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents, SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word, SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows, new document library template: "Resume repository", OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings, and more. Plus, we recap the BIG Copilot news day and all the disclosed elements. Details and screenshots below, including our audible companion: The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop: April 2025 podcast episode – all to help answer, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Microsoft 365?":

All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of April 2025 (possibly early May 2025).

Inform and engage with dynamic employee experiences

Build your intelligent intranet on SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and get the benefits of investing in business outcomes – reducing IT and development costs, increasing business speed and agility, and up-leveling the dynamic, personalized, and welcoming nature of your intranet.

Microsoft Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents

SharePoint agents will now bring Viva Connections cards to conversations. When a card is relevant for a specific topic, it will surface in the conversation chat, allowing users to interact with it directly from SharePoint agents without interrupting their flow.

Viva Connections card flowing into a SharePoint agent experience.

This ensures relevant information is readily accessible within the context of their conversations, improving productivity and user experience.

• Roadmap ID 412621.
• Learn more.

SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word

Currently, SharePoint eSignature includes the capability to request eSignatures from a PDF using Microsoft’s native eSignature service. With this update, users will also be able to create eSignature requests from Microsoft Word documents without the need to create a PDF.

Requesting SharePoint eSignatures from within Microsoft Word.

When requesting eSignatures from Word, signers will sign a PDF copy of the Word document:

• The PDF is automatically created, and a link is shared with signers.
• Signers do not access the source Word document during the signing process.
• Signer information, such as an email address, is not stored in the Word document.
• When signing is complete, the signed PDF will be saved in the same location as the Word document.
• The PDF document never leaves your Microsoft 365 Trust Boundary during the signing process.

The rollout may take several weeks for some regions. Check the regional availability here.

• Roadmap ID 486707.

Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 is designed to be a universal toolkit for teamwork – to give you the right tools for the right task, along with common services to help you seamlessly work across applications. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork – to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization – with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more.

Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows

In the Automate menu, users will be able to create customized quick steps for common tasks such as composing an email or starting a Microsoft Teams chat to specified People columns, sending an approval request, executing a flow, and setting a column value on one or more items. Users will find a simple sentence-builder experience, like Lists and SharePoint rules.

Select Automate > Quick steps > Create a quick step.

After this rollout, you'll be able to add and configure quick steps within any list or library for these common scenarios. Users can go to the Automate menu from any list or library to configure quick steps.

• Learn more.
• Message ID: MC1025215

SharePoint: New document library template: "Resume repository" for resume organization and hiring

You'll find the "Resume repository" library template if you're a tenant with pay-as-you-go-billing services enabled. Once you have it, you'll see autofill columns that automatically extract name, email, phone, college, and degree - all the common, important aspects on a resume.

Graphical representation of what the "Resume repository" template looks like it before creating a new SharePoint document library with this template applied.

Additionally, there are preconfigure choices and people-based columns to help streamline hiring and interview coordination centered on the resume files. The new template will be available for SharePoint users to create and use in their sites.

So get hiring; not tiring of the rigor of getting organized as the multitudes of potential hires send you their resumes.

Learn more:

• Autofill columns: Overview of autofill columns in SharePoint
• Manage templates: Disable built-in list templates

Message ID: MC1062455

Related technology

OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings

Never miss key points from your meetings again. Copilot transforms your meeting recordings into actionable insights, making follow-ups a breeze. Use Q&A for meeting recordings to get immediate answers—no need to watch or skim.

👀 Watch recap in action in this short video.

You'll be able to:

1. Recap meetings: Users can quickly review key points and discussions from their meetings.
2. Generate meeting notes: Users can automatically create detailed notes summarizing the meeting.
3. Highlight any @mentions: Users can easily identify, and review all mentions of specific individuals during the meeting.

• See Recap in action review this short video.
• Roadmap ID 469500

Recent Copilot news (from the April 23, 2025, moment)

April came and went, and in retrospect, let's re-say hello to Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release, which effectively is an updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app designed to power the next era of human-agent collaboration. Copilot is now your window into the world of agents, with new capabilities that lay the foundation for this next phase—driven by more advanced models, adaptive memory, and reasoning agents that work alongside you.

Getting down to brass taxes, the five main elements of this Copilot news cycle:

• AI-powered Search to help you find information faster at work.
• A new Create experience built for business that unlocks design skills for everyone.
• Copilot Notebooks to turn your content and data into instant insights and action.
• A new Agent Store to easily find and access agents right in the flow of work.
• And for IT, the Copilot Control System: Admins and security professionals start solving the challenges of cost management, security and governance, and lifecycle management so that you can effectively secure, measure, and manage the use of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents to maximize their impact. 

Learn more.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Frontier

Beginning to rollout in phases in May, Frontier is a new managed program that offers you the ability to get hands on with the latest model innovation and provide feedback before experiences are made generally available. Our first Frontier experiences - Researcher and Analyst – now available in the App (agent) store. Both agents will be labeled with ending in “(Frontier)”. 

We recently held a video AMA with the Copilot Frontier team – including visuals of some of the new agents in action + lots of Q&A. Watch now:

All Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users will be able to discover the agents by opening their Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience on the web, clicking “All Agents” and navigating to “Built by Microsoft,” the “agents” or “productivity” categories of the store. There are no limits on usage of Researcher or Analyst for end-users, subject to change. As these features are still in development, they will only be made available in English.

• Learn more

May 2025 teasers

Psst, still here? Still scrolling the page looking for more roadmap goodness? If so, here is a few teasers of what’s to come to production next month…

• Teaser #1: Share a SharePoint site's built-in agent [Roadmap ID: 480721] 
• Teaser #2: Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries [Roadmap ID: 488297]

… shhh, tell everyone.

Helpful, ongoing change management resources

• "Stay on top of Microsoft 365 product and feature changes"
• "Microsoft 365 Message center"
• Install the Microsoft 365 Admin app; view Message Center posts and stay current with push notifications.
• Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, and related tech in Microsoft 365.

• SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint community blog | Feedback

• Follow me to catch news and interesting SharePoint things: @mkashman; warning, occasional bad puns may fly in a tweet or two here and there.

Thanks for tuning in and/or reading this episode/blog of the Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop – April 2025. We are open to your feedback in comments below to hear how both the Roadmap Pitstop podcast episodes and blogs can be improved over time.

Engage with us. Ask those questions that haunt you. Push us where you want and need to get the best information and insights. We are here to put both our and your best change management foot forward.

Stay safe out there on the road’map ahead. And thanks for listening and reading.

Thanks for your time,

Mark Kashman – senior product manager (SharePoint/Lists) | Microsoft)

The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop - April 2025 graphic showing some of the highlighted release features.