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SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop February 2025

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Mar 04, 2025

No extra day this year. No matter, the product team crammed a lot of goodness into the 28 days of February 2025. This article and companion podcast keep you up to date about the tech releases and updates, and some app retirements, for SharePoint and related technology in Microsoft 365.

No extra day this year. No matter, the product team crammed much goodness into the 28 fast-paced days of Feb'2025.  

Their busy'ness delivered: Viva Connections: User-created cards, Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp, Microsoft Lists: Forms updates, SharePoint: Updated document libraries, Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams chats and channels, Preview mode for SharePoint Pages, Personal Loop workspaces, SharePoint spaces retirement, and more. Details and screenshots below, including our audible companion: The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop: February 2025 podcast episode – all to help answer, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Microsoft 365?" 

In the podcast episode, I speak with Matt Taylor (Director of product marketing – Microsoft) about getting started with SharePoint agents, including his own journey as a recent implant into the world of SharePoint from the Teams Rooms team. Matt shared some great insights while onboarding, using a SharePoint agent to learn and ask questions about his new team. 

Left: Matt Taylor (Director of product marketing – Microsoft) [Intrazone guest], and Right: Mark Kashman (Senior product manager – Microsoft) [Intrazone host].

All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of February 2024 (possibly early March 2025).  

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Microsoft Viva Connections: New user-created cards 

The Viva Connections Dashboard is “for employees” and now you can “make it your own, even more. You will soon be able to create Your own link cards that connect to other tools and destinations on the Microsoft Viva Connections dashboard. 

An individual adding a new user-created card to their Viva Connections Dashboard.

Steps to create your own Connections dashboard user-created card:  

  • On the Viva Connections dashboard, select Customize. 
  • Add a Quick links card. 
  • Set up the card by choosing a title, image, and appropriate links. Save the dashboard. 

It’s really that simple.  

Video creation in Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp. 

Watch out Kathryn Bigelow and Stephen Spielberg… your corporate comms skills are ready to launch into the AI era with the help from a friendly video editor assistant. 

Clipchamp brings video creation skills to Visual Creator in Copilot. Simply type your prompt, Clipchamp will generate a bespoke script, source high-quality stock footage, and assemble a video project complete with music, voiceover, text overlays, and transitions.  

This provides you with a first draft, which you can open in the Clipchamp app to continue editing. You can then export the video as an MP4 video file, which gets saved to OneDrive, ready to share as a link. Think of all you can create - Informational videos, video messages, how-to guides, demos, and video presentations. 

Using Copilot in Clipchamp to generate a new project and starter content in your project timeline.

Note: The video creation skill does not generate new video clips, animations, images, or audio. We use content in existing Microsoft 365 service asset libraries (aka, enterprise compliant stock media), to bring your video to life.  

For more information about Clipchamp, visit our Clipchamp Adoption page, or the Get Started page on our support site. 

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. 

 

Microsoft Lists: Forms updates 

Microsoft Lists forms got some sweet v2 updates to enhance your list data collection and management. Updates include subscribing to notifications, form scheduling, conditional branching, quick form creation, and additional field-type support.  

  • New creation experience: Users can now create forms directly from Lists home, SharePoint, and the Lists app in Microsoft Teams. This streamlined process automatically creates the underlying list for responses, saving time and effort. 
  • Conditional branching: Conditional branching allows you to show or hide questions based on previous answers, ensuring respondents only see relevant questions. You can branch questions to other questions or based on choices in a Choice field. 
  • Add logo: Enhance your forms with a relevant logo, making them look more professional and reinforcing brand identity. 
  • Support for Additional Field Types: Attachments, Image, Location, Lookup. Please note that for Lookup fields respondents need at least read access to the underlying source list to see and select the options. 
  • New response notification and scheduling start/end dates: Choose to get notified when someone submits a response to a form you own or have access to. Set specific start and end dates for your forms. 
     
  • Learn more.  
  • Roadmap ID 124865. 

  

SharePoint: Updated document libraries, especially when in Edit mode 

Thanks to many of the Microsoft Lists user experience improvements, so too now do doclibs benefit - since they are platformed on the same Lists infrastructure. This SharePoint document library update improves overall performance AND enhances the functionality of Edit in grid view. 

Screenshot of a SharePoint document library displaying some of the new improvements.

You’ll see enhanced editing while in grid view when working with Choice field, Person fields, and image fields. Discover better scrolling with large libraries - Instead of going to the next page if there are more than one hundred documents, users can scroll down and see everything. And we introduced new commands and navigation, like Create new items, Clickable document titles, and more – again, while in grid view. 

There is also a redesigned Properties pane and right-click menu: When you click or modify an item’s details, the properties pane appears as a dialog box, including the right-click context menu: Right-click any item in the grid and instantly see context-aware options such as Open, Edit, Share, or Delete. 

And last, if your document library includes a rating column (star ratings or “likes”), we improved the experience of updating and viewing these ratings. 

  

Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams chats and channels. 

Clean, simple-looking communications help conversations flow smoothly. Diminish ambiguity in your chats so your recipient knows what you sent them more easily. That’s where link previews play a big role when you share something with someone in a Teams chat.  

Links to Microsoft Lists, Lists items, and Lists forms now display richer details such as title and path when shared in Teams chats and channels. This new feature will enhance collaboration by making it easier for users to recognize specific List link types, in addition to viewing the title and path.

Microsoft Lists links now resolve in Teams with improved titles and graphical icons to indicate what type they are: (using the photo example above, top down) 1) Link to an individual list item, 2) link to a Lists form, and 3) link to a full list.

A sender will be able to opt to provide permissions to view or edit the List, List item, or List form. This feature will improve the efficiency of collaboration by reducing the need to switch between Teams and other applications to view or interact with list data. This message applies to Teams for Windows and Mac desktops. 

 

New preview mode for SharePoint Pages and News posts 

See it for yourself, before you send it. The new Preview mode can be used to understand how Pages and News posts appear on different device types when viewed by an audience. 

After clicking the "Email preview" button (while in edit mode), you get an in-browser preview of what your page will look like in your recipients’ inbox(es).

A Preview button will display in the command bar while users are editing Pages and News posts in SharePoint. After selecting Preview, users can see what the page will look like in view mode for the audience. When previewing Pages, users can navigate between Desktop and Mobile device types. When previewing News posts, users can also choose to view the email version as Desktop or Mobile device types. 

  

Microsoft Loop – New personal Loop workspace 

The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. Governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes are like that user's OneDrive. The existing Ideas workspace will begin functioning as a shared Loop workspace because it is not a user-owned container. 

A few admin notes: Details about departure and storage. If you wish to disable the creation of Loop workspaces, you can configure it using the admin policies found here and here. 

Related technology 

Retirement: SharePoint spaces 

In its original design, SharePoint spaces introduced immersive, mixed reality experiences for your intranet— to view and interact with content from every angle and visualize and manipulate data and product models in real-time. It offered point-and-click simplicity to create engaging surroundings, ambient sounds, rich textures, and lighting, plus your content.  

Due to limited usage and the focus on Microsoft Mesh investments, Microsoft will retire the spaces feature from  SharePoint starting March 10, 2025, and ending August 11, 2025. As another alternative, you may choose to transition existing content to SharePoint Pages - of which evolve as a fantastic way to display your content in engaging, beautiful ways. 

Adam Harmetz and Vidya Srinivasan backstage right before revealing SharePoint spaces. 2018

Starting March 10, 2025, the spaces feature will be turned off by default. After this date, users can still access the spaces feature on SharePoint sites that have used it previously and users can enable the feature for individual sites on the Site features page.  

Starting May 15, 2025, users will no longer be able to enable the spaces feature on the Site features page, but SharePoint sites with the feature already enabled will continue to function as normal. 

Starting August 11, 2025, the feature will be fully disabled and users will be unable to view, edit, or create new spaces. 

  

Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams  

To streamline our free consumer communications offerings to adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (the free version). The below video shows the experience of a Skype user transitioning to Microsoft Teams Free:  

 

With Teams, you have access to many of the same core features Skype offered, such as one-on-one calls and group calls, messaging, and file sharing. Additionally, Teams offers enhanced features like hosting meetings, managing calendars, and building and joining communities for free. 

  • Move to Microsoft Teams for free. We will roll out the ability for Skype users to sign into Teams (free) on any supported device using their Skype credentials. By logging in to Teams with a Skype account, chats and contacts will automatically appear in the app so you can quickly pick up where you left off.  
  • Export your Skype data. If you prefer not to migrate to Teams, you can instead export your data including chats, contacts, and call history. Skype will remain available until May 5, 2025, to accomplish this export. 
  • Last, get started with Teams for free. Moving to Teams is simple and doesn’t prevent you from also continuing to use Skype during the transition period. Download Teams on your device from the official Microsoft Teams website. Log in with your Skype credentials. Start using Teams with all your Skype chats and contacts ready to go.  

Skype has been an integral part of shaping modern communications and supporting countless meaningful moments, and Microsoft is honored to have been part of the journey. We also understand that change can be challenging and want you to know that we’re here to support you every step of the way. We’re excited about the new opportunities that Teams brings and are committed to helping you stay connected in new and meaningful ways.  

Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 

Beginning January 10, 2026, Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported as part of Microsoft 365. Many common Publisher scenarios are now available in other Microsoft 365 apps, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Designer. 

Microsoft Publisher icon.

Before January 10, 2026, Microsoft suggests converting your existing Publisher files into PDF or Word format. After this date, you will no longer be able to open or edit these files with Microsoft Publisher.  

March 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: New usage reports through Microsoft PowerShell for the SharePoint agents’ trial [Message Center post: MC1015905]  
  • Teaser #2: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp [Roadmap ID: 468890] 

… shhh, tell everyone. 

Helpful, ongoing change management resources  

Thanks for tuning in and/or reading this episode/blog of the Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop – February 2024. We are open to your feedback in comments below to hear how both the Roadmap Pitstop podcast episodes and blogs improve 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.  

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Thanks for your time,

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

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  • rpodric's avatar
    rpodric
    Bronze Contributor
    Mar 06, 2025

    Do you know why the same copy of Teams uses radically different coloring for chat backgrounds in Teams Free vs Teams with a corp login? Again, the same copy of Teams, both set the same way in Appearance. One background  (for the corp login) is a very muted color, almost looking like a dark gray. It's fine. The other, for Teams free, is this wild bright lavender. It's not fine.