Commercial Priority Update
Week of April 30, 2026
Microsoft Purview Content Explorer is adding enhanced filtering controls that allow admins to scope visibility by Sensitive Information Types and sensitivity labels directly from the UI. This update improves the ability to locate and govern specific categories of sensitive content across the organization without requiring broader, unfiltered data views. For compliance and data governance teams managing large content estates, tighter scoping controls reduce investigative noise and support more precise oversight of how sensitive data is classified and distributed. This feature is currently rolling out and expected to complete in April 2026.
Commercial M365 Roadmap Updates
Find out what’s coming, what’s going, and what it means for you and your operations. View all Microsoft 365 roadmap updates for the week of April 30, 2026.
Microsoft Entra: Account Discovery for Application Access Governance.
Account discovery provides visibility into who has access to connected applications by discovering local and orphaned accounts and identifying accounts that can be matched to Microsoft Entra ID users.
Account discovery will help administrators identify access that exists outside of Microsoft Entra ID Governance and bring that access under governance—simplifying application onboarding while improving visibility and control over application access.
ID: 559476 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot improved long files navigation using document structure, enabling more accurate answers and clearer citations.
We’ve improved how Copilot reads long and complex files by making it more aware of document structure. When you ask a question, Copilot can now navigate to the most relevant parts of your document (for example, specific sections/pages) before answering—helping reduce missed details and improving confidence with clearer citations that are easier to trace back to the source.
ID: 559614 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2027
Microsoft Agent 365: Registry sync
Connect to external AI platforms to discover agents created outside Microsoft and automatically sync them into the Agent 365 registry for more complete agent visibility and governance.
ID: 559615 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Agent 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Modern, unified, and updated Look and Feel
Microsoft Edge will update the Look and Feel to give customers a unified experience across all of Microsoft AI surfaces including Copilot and Bing. This will change multiple elements of the UX such as spacing, corners, fonts, default colors, etc.
ID: 559993 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Efficiency Mode
Teams efficiency mode improves performance and responsiveness on hardware constrained devices by applying a reduced resource configuration by default, helping maintain meeting quality and responsiveness during collaboration.
ID: 560055 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
SharePoint: Create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with AI
You can ask AI in SharePoint to create a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file based on the information you’ve gathered within SharePoint
ID: 560337 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Proactive push notifications for the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
The Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app will proactively send push notifications for common productivity workflows like ‘Your Day at a Glance’ and ‘Items waiting for you’, which send users to the respective Copilot response when opened. This feature taps into your Copilot Memory and will be available for users with Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and can also be accessed once opening the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
ID: 560339 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Planner: Planner Agent chat
Introducing built-in Planner Agent chat with natural language Q&A, smart task discovery, and in-plan task management.
ID: 560532 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint directly from the PowerPoint Home
You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint straight from the PowerPoint Home in file menu.
ID: 560536 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint directly from the PowerPoint Web App
You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint just as you open the PowerPoint web app.
ID: 560537 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Export metrics from Agent Dashboard
Users can export de-identified, row-level agent metrics and attributes from the Agent Dashboard. Exported data provides detailed insights into agent usage and user-level agent interactions across the organization, with personal identifiers removed.
#copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 560538 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
SharePoint: Governance Reviews Dashboard for Site Owners
Site owners have a critical role to play in ensuring accuracy of site information, including the site’s necessity, its owners, members, permissions, and sharing settings. We’re introducing the Governance Reviews Dashboard in Private Preview, a centralized view where site owners can see all pending site governance reviews (inactivity, ownership, attestation) across the sites they own.
The dashboard shows required actions, due timelines, and site enforcement status and allows site owners to take action directly from one place. Combined with consolidated policy notifications, it replaces multiple emails with a single, actionable governance surface.
ID: 560541 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
OneDrive: Sync Support for up to 1 million items on Windows
OneDrive Sync supports syncing up to 1 million items on Windows devices, helping teams manage large document libraries and shared content at scale without compromising access across devices. This preview requires the Insiders ring and that devices meet minimum hardware and configuration requirements. Devices that don’t meet these requirements continue to sync at the existing 300,000-item supported limit with no disruption.
ID: 560549 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2026
SharePoint: AI in SharePoint can generate code to translate your intent into reliable workflows
AI in SharePoint can now generate code which allows it to take what you ask and build the behind-the-scenes instructions or “helper programs” needed to actually do the work, like generating reports.
ID: 560596 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention – Reasoning Trace and Confidence Score for agent-triaged alerts
This feature introduces confidence scoring and reasoning trace explainability into the Data Security Triage Agent in DLP, addressing a critical trust gap reported across multiple customers. Today, without transparency into why the agent makes a decision or how confident it is, analysts are forced to fall back to manual review — completely negating the automation value. The feature will surface a reasoning trace alongside each agent decision and a confidence score, giving analysts a clear signal of how reliable the agent’s output is. This provides SOC teams with an auditable, explainable output they can validate rather than blindly trust, enabling them to progressively increase reliance on automation over time.
ID: 560597 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint directly from the PowerPoint Home
You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint straight from the PowerPoint Home in file menu.
ID: 560694 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Teammates Calendars in Left Nav in calendar
Users can now see colleagues’ and direct reports’ calendars in the left navigation by default—without manual setup. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 560695 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Bulk Opening/Closing calendar groups in the left nav
Users can now bulk select/deselect all calendars within a group on left rail in calendar in #newoutlookforwindows, similar to classic Outlook.
ID: 560697 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Multiselect events on calendar surface
Users can now multi-select events on calendar surface and perform bulk operations like open, copy -paste, delete & categorize in #newoutlookforwindows, similar to classic Outlook.
ID: 560698 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Security Detection Report in Teams Admin Center
A new Security Detection Report in the Teams admin center provides a centralized view of messaging security detections, including impersonation, malicious URLs, and weaponizable file types. Admins can review detection activity in one place and export detailed data to support investigation and response. This capability helps consolidate security signals for Teams messaging scenarios.
ID: 560702 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Power user insights in Copilot dashboard
Understand who is building a habit using Copilot with the new power user insights in Copilot dashboard
ID: 560705 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – AI-powered intent for classifiers
AI-powered intent for classifiers: Microsoft Purview Information Protection will generate a human-readable semantic intent for custom Sensitive Information Types (SITs), helping customers better understand what their classifiers detect and refine them for higher accuracy and fewer false positives.
ID: 560708 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
SharePoint: File Actions in SharePoint
With AI in SharePoint, you can find, analyze, and organize files all from chat. SharePoint understands complex requests like “”rename these files by date”” or “”move old reports to an archive folder.”” It analyzes your library, suggests a plan, and executes it with your approval, saving you time and effort.
ID: 560796 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Unblock users to send message while file is uploading in the background
Large file sharing in Teams today introduces blocking behavior, forcing users to wait for uploads to complete and disrupting real-time collaboration. To improve productivity and reduce perceived latency, we are introducing asynchronous file uploads. This allows users to continue sending messages while the file uploads in the background, enabling a more seamless and uninterrupted collaboration experience.
ID: 560813 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Search in quick sharing experience
Microsoft Teams makes it easier to find and attach files by enabling search directly within the quick sharing experience. You can now locate cloud based files while attaching content, reducing friction when sharing files across chats and channels.
ID: 560814 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Quick Share for Images
Microsoft Teams extends Quick Share to images, making it fast and easy to share visual content across chats and channels. With access from hover, right click, overflow menus, and shared tabs, you can quickly copy links or share images while preserving existing permissions.
ID: 560816 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Increase in expansion limit for auto expanding archive beyond 1.5TB
Previously, auto expanding archive mailbox expansion was supported only up to 1.5 TB, after which mailboxes would become inoperative. Archive mailboxes can now automatically expand beyond the 1.5 TB limit, ensuring uninterrupted retention and enabling scalable archive growth as storage thresholds are reached. This capability will be offered as a consumption‑based feature for auto expanding archive beyond 1.5 TB and will be billed at $0.25 per GB per month (or $0.0082 per GB per day).
ID: 560820 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Export Heat Map report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides
Managers will be able to export the default sections from the Heat Map report in Viva Glint directly to editable PowerPoint slides. This enhancement allows for easier and quicker consumption of this report outside Viva Glint, compared to the previous export method which included static screenshots.
ID: 560821 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2026
SharePoint: eSignature for Microsoft 365 – Recipient groups
Recipient groups in eSignature allow a recipient slot to be assigned to multiple people, such that any one of those people can fulfil the signing requirement on behalf of the group.
ID: 560822 Release: Microsoft 365, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Work Search Banner for Google
When a user performs a search on google.com from a work profile, Microsoft Edge can detect whether organization-specific results are available for that query. When relevant results are found, a banner is shown with a link to explore those work results with Microsoft 365 Copilot. This builds on the existing experience already available on Bing and extends it to Google, helping users seamlessly access work-related information regardless of their search engine. Admins can control access to this feature using the EdgeWorkSearchBannerEnabled policy.
ID: 560823 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – New Guided Experience to Diagnose and Resolve DLP Issues
We’re introducing a new guided diagnostics experience to help users understand why their DLP policies may not be behaving as expected. This experience provides a clear summary of why a DLP action was taken on a document, including which policies were triggered, the order of evaluation, and detailed insights into which conditions evaluated as true or false.
For Microsoft 365 E5 customers, the experience also includes Copilot-powered insights and tailored recommendations to accelerate troubleshooting and policy optimization.
ID: 561032 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview: DSPM – New Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management Experience
At Ignite, Microsoft is introducing a major evolution of Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to help organizations strengthen data security and confidently embrace AI. The new DSPM experience unifies visibility and control across traditional data and AI-driven environments, delivering outcome-based guided workflows that turn insights into actionable steps—so teams can prioritize risks and remediate faster. It brings AI observability, enhanced posture reporting, and intelligent Security Copilot agents to automate tasks like triage and policy management. Plus, Purview now extends coverage beyond Microsoft data with third-party signals from partners like BigID, Cyera, OneTrust, and Varonis, giving security teams a single, streamlined view of sensitive data across clouds and platforms. Together, these innovations make DSPM the central hub for managing data security posture in the era of AI. We are also extending Data Risk Assessments to Fabric and to item-level analysis with new remediation actions like bulk disabling of overshared SharePoint links.
ID: 561036 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center
This feature allows Microsoft 365 administrators to enable Microsoft 365 certified SaaS applications within their tenant through org-wide settings for third-party apps. Admins can choose to allow a subset of applications that have already been verified against industry security and compliance standards. This ensures organizations can confidently adopt apps while maintaining governance and reducing approval overhead.
ID: 485712 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516037 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516038 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516039 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Entra: Cross-tenant security group synchronization
We’re introducing cross-tenant group synchronization, a new capability that enables organizations to synchronize security groups across Microsoft Entra tenants. This feature simplifies collaboration scenarios by allowing shared access to resources across tenants while maintaining centralized group management. It also streamlines administration of multiple tenants by centralizing group membership control, reducing duplication and manual overhead.
ID: 518221 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: User reported security signals in Teams admin center
This update brings end user security reporting into Teams Admin Center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages users report as a security concern or not a security concern within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine tune policies and responses.
ID: 536571 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer
Introduces enhanced controls in Content Explorer’s UI, enabling scoped visibility and filtering of SIT and label data. This will help with content discoverability and governance.
ID: 553218 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Backup RTMP Support for Teams town halls
Teams town halls will soon provide support for a backup RTMP stream to keep a live broadcast running in the event of an interruption with the main stream.
ID: 554932 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2026
Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile
When composing an email on your mobile device, Outlook can recommend or automatically apply an appropriate sensitivity label if your organization’s automatic or recommended labeling policies are enabled by admins and the message contains sensitive information. For recommended labels, you’ll see a prompt to review and apply the suggested label, and automatic labels will be applied without needing any action from you.
ID: 557253 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile
When composing an email on your mobile device, Outlook can recommend or automatically apply an appropriate sensitivity label if your organization’s automatic or recommended labeling policies are enabled by admins and the message contains sensitive information. For recommended labels, you’ll see a prompt to review and apply the suggested label, and automatic labels will be applied without needing any action from you.
ID: 557254 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint
Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
ID: 557276 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint
Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
ID: 557277 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] IT Admins will be able to enable Anthropic models by specific users and groups in the tenant
This feature introduces admin controls for managing Anthropic as a model provider for specific users and groups in the tenant.
ID: 557371 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – AI analysis enhancements
Data Security Investigations (DSI) now further enhances its AI analysis tools, including the ability to choose between a standard categorization for potential time and/or cost savings or a more advanced categorization to include AI-generated topics. Additionally, we are making the DSI workflow faster by automatically preparing data for AI analysis as it is being added to the investigation, saving critical investigation time.
ID: 557556 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter quality and support for Traditional Chinese
Interpreter now delivers more accurate real-time interpretation, with improved recognition of people’s names and common industry terms. It also supports your organization’s Custom Dictionary from the Microsoft 365 admin center, so tenant-specific terms can be translated more consistently across meetings. Traditional Chinese is also now supported.
ID: 558434 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Add support of hyperlinks in warn & block toast messages for Edge browser
With this feature, data officers can now complete their coverage story by now embedding hyperlinks within toast messages for the Edge browser. When this rule is triggered, the end user will see a toast with a customized title and message with a hyperlink. This feature is useful when organizations need to direct users to a specific resource or a repository for more specific instruction (e.g. internal policy SharePoint site).
ID: 558688 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Infinite Scroll Chat History
Infinite scroll enables users to continuously browse older chat sessions by automatically loading additional conversations as they scroll. This creates a smoother, more modern chat history experience
ID: 557348 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Glint: AI-generated survey insights with Copilot Highlights
Copilot in Viva Glint now generates AI-powered summaries of employee survey results directly within Team Summary and Executive Summary reports, helping leaders quickly understand strengths, opportunities, and trends across their teams. Copilot Highlights surfaces key insights – such as notable score changes, benchmark comparisons, and response rate confidence – so leaders can move from data to action faster. With general availability, Copilot Highlights expands to support multilingual summaries, enabling global organizations to deliver AI-generated survey insights in their preferred language.
ID: 558111 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Expanded published report recipients
This enables analysts to publish Viva Insights Power BI reports to anyone in their organization. Today, analysts can publish them only to people with Copilot Dashboard access.
ID: 558257 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Teams button on certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral devices one-click access to voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within the Teams mobile app (iOS).
We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Now, you can connect your certified for Microsoft Teams personal Bluetooth device (such as your personal headset or earbuds) and with one press of the Teams button you can launch the Teams mobile app and invoke voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within Teams. This feature eliminates the hassle of navigating menus on your mobile phone, giving you instant access to your personal AI assistant for quick conversational voice answers. This capability is initially available in iOS. Android and desktop client will be supported in a future release.
ID: 494149 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Outlook: Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook
Easily summarize your email with Copilot chat in a single click. This will be available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who have pinning enabled. This change is coming to both Classic and new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac and Outlook Mobile. Summaries of email attachments in Copilot chat will also be available in new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac and Outlook Mobile. #newoutlookforwindows Updated April 21, 2026: We are no longer proceeding with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 558110 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026