Commercial Priority Update
Week of May 28, 2026
Microsoft Teams is adding explicit controls for managing external third-party bots attempting to join meetings. When a bot requests entry, organizers will see a clear representation of it in the lobby — separate from human participants — and must actively admit it through a distinct approval step. This prevents bots from being inadvertently accepted alongside other attendees, giving meeting organizers direct control over what automated processes can access live meeting content. The feature is currently rolling out for Commercial and GCC environments.
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 May 28, 2026.
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs: Researcher Agent Access
Allows developers to invoke the Researcher agent through the Work IQ endpoint to perform multi‑step analysis, deep reasoning, and synthesis across enterprise content as part of agentic workflows.
ID: 559018 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat History Filtering by Copilot Experience
Users will now see chat history scoped to their current Copilot Chat endpoint, with the option to see ‘All chats’ view.
ID: 559601 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Auto-labeling Simulation Evaluation
The Simulation Grader helps admins understand and improve auto‑labeling accuracy before enforcing a policy. When enabled during simulation, matched items are evaluated by an AI-powered grader to determine whether each match is a true positive or false positive, along with an explanation of why the content matched. The results roll up into clear policy‑level accuracy insights and file‑level evaluation details, giving admins confidence to refine conditions, upgrade to smarter classifiers, and move policies to enforcement with greater trust.
ID: 560707 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Support human interpreter listening mode in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows now supports human interpreter listening mode in meetings where organizers enable language interpretation in Meeting options, allowing room participants to select a language and hear interpreter audio.
ID: 562050 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on sensitive M365 data for better Data Security and Compliance posture
Insights on sensitive M365 data (OneDrive and SharePoint) and recommendations on retention policies for customers to better govern their sensitive data.
ID: 562343 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Archive OneDrive and SharePoint files under retention
Retention based file archiving moves inactive content to low-cost storage, lowering costs with no compromise on Compliance, keeping data discoverable and making Copilot results highly relevant.
ID: 562345 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Assign Open Shifts
Auto Assign Open Shifts is a Microsoft Teams Shifts feature that automatically fills unassigned (open) shifts for you. It lets managers automatically assign open shifts to available employees instead of doing it manually. The system considers factors like employee availability, approved time off, past scheduling patterns, and scheduling rules (e.g., max hours, rest time); and generates a draft schedule that you can review and adjust before publishing.
ID: 562535 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams Rooms on Android
The Interpreter agent acts as a translator in Microsoft Teams meetings, allowing participants to listen to the meeting in their chosen language with real-time translation so speaking different languages isn’t a barrier to effective understanding and collaboration. It’s now available in Teams Rooms on Android licensed for Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 562665 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Reduce policy sync status SLA on the Purview UI from 2 hours to 30 mins
Policy updates in Microsoft Purview now sync faster, reducing wait times from up to 2 hours to just 30 minutes, so your protections stay up to date and take effect more quickly across your organization.
ID: 562994 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Outlook: Emails marked with External to be supported as Rules conditions
The External tag on an email, set by the ExternalInOutlook feature, will now be usable as a condition in Outlook Inbox Rules. This change also makes available the ability to create or modify these Rules on the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook Web, and Outlook for Mac.
ID: 563806 Release: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Outlook: Choose to Show Unread or Total Count for Each Folder
You can now pick whether each folder in your folder pane shows the unread count or the total item count. Until now, Outlook only displayed unread counts, but sometimes you need to see how many items are in a folder overall. Just right-click any folder and choose whether to show the total or unread count. It gives you more control over how you keep track of your email without changing how anything else works. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 563807 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Outlook: Navigate Your Favorite Folders Without Expanding the Folder Pane
You can now quickly switch between your favorite folders without opening the full folder pane. When the pane is collapsed, your favorite folders appear as a vertical list, giving you one-click access to the folders you use most. Each folder shows unread or total counts so you always know what needs attention. Right-click any favorite for the same options you’re used to, and your selections stay put across sessions. It’s a familiar experience for anyone who loved favorites in classic Outlook, now built right into the new Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 563810 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2026
SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams
Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat.ID: 481825 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows
When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.ID: 508521 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Surveys Agent and Copilot Chat in Microsoft Forms
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now integrated in Microsoft Forms, including enabling the Surveys Agent from within Forms. Surveys Agent provides specialized capabilities to help with your form – from recommending and applying improvements to your form or quiz, to helping draft and send invitations, to analyzing your results. Surveys Agent is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and can be accessed by clicking the “Copilot” icon in Forms.ID: 553136 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to create cases without content in IRM
Insider Risk Management is providing the ability to create a case without content. With this, we will introduce a new active case limit (2000). This new functionality will allow customers to create more cases particularly when content download is unnecessary. If a case is created without content download, content download can be initiated anytime the case is active pending available content download limits. There is no change to the active content download limit (100).
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.ID: 554940 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced issue detection in Teams Rooms on Windows and auto-remediation with Teams Rooms Pro Management.
Teams Rooms on Windows proactively monitors room audio, video, and display signals to detect issues in meeting spaces. Teams Rooms Pro Management automatically remediates common issues that can be resolved through software, configuration changes, or device resets during nightly maintenance. This ensures users have reliable, ready-to-use meeting rooms, while IT admins benefit from reduced manual troubleshooting and increased uptime. Available for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.ID: 557167 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Book future meetings directly from Teams panels
You can now make an upcoming meeting reservation from a Teams panel by browsing the calendar on the device and choosing any open time slot through midnight the next day. Add a guest during booking streamlining ad-hoc scheduling and coordination. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Shared Device licenses.ID: 557168 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Enable customers to book appointments from a live chat widget on your website
The Microsoft Teams live chat widget lets customers engage in one to one conversations with your business directly from your website, and now also enables appointment scheduling.ID: 557172 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Submit agent to Agent Store from Agent Builder
Customers can submit their custom Copilot agents built in Agent Builder to the Agent Store under the “Built by your org” section, after admin review and approval in M365 Admin Center. This governed flow enables admins to review, approve, and publish submitted agents so that they can be discovered and used by others in the Agent Store. This helps organizations share validated agents at scale while maintaining quality and governance.ID: 557173 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Instantly Find Rules, Quick Steps, and More by Name
Managing your email automation in Outlook is now effortless with name search built into your key productivity tools. You can search within Rules, Conditional Formatting, Quick Steps, and Search Folders, filtering the list by name so you jump straight to the item you need. Whether you have dozens of rules or a growing library of quick steps, just type a few characters to narrow down results instantly. No more scrolling through long lists to find the right one, search puts you in control. Stay organized and make changes faster, right where you need them. #newoutlookforwindowsID: 557678 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Identify bots joining your Teams meetings
During Teams meetings, if there is an external 3P bot trying to join the meeting, organizers will be able to see a clear representation of the bots while they wait in the lobby. Organizers will be required to explicitly and separately admit these bots into the meeting, if really required. This approach will ensure that no one inadvertently accepts the external bots into the meeting ensuring that the organizers have full control over the presence of these bots.ID: 558107 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks
Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks are interactive visual artifacts that help users understand notebook content through a grounded map of key topics, themes, and relationships. Users can explore the Mind Map, view summaries for individual nodes, and use Notebook chat to get more detail about a node. Available across OneNote and Microsoft 365 Copilot App.ID: 559029 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device Health Reporting Dashboard
This dashboard will allow admins to view the device health across all their devices to ensure the system is healthy and ready to receive policy updates and quickly identify devices that are not ready.ID: 559267 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams mobile
Manage call queues and engage with customers wherever work takes you. The Queues app on Teams mobile enables on the go workers to stay connected and responsive when handling customer calls. Calling representatives and supervisor leads can view assigned queues, opt in or out of a queue’s call routing, and review their call history—all from their mobile device. Supervisor leads can also bulk manage queue participation for their teams. With seamless mobile access, the Queues app helps teams respond faster, handle calls more smoothly, and deliver a better customer experience anytime, anywhere.ID: 559386 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Excel spreadsheets from Copilot Notebooks
Copilot Notebooks allows users to generate Excel spreadsheets using the content and references gathered in a notebook. Copilot drafts a structured spreadsheet grounded in the notebook’s context, which can be opened and edited in Excel, helping users move from ideas and source material to a ready‑to‑use spreadsheet with fewer manual steps.ID: 559480 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Jump to Any Folder Instantly with Go to Folder
You can now quickly search for and navigate to any folder in your mailbox using the new Go to Folder feature. Instead of scrolling through long folder lists, just press Ctrl+Y or access it from your accounts context menu to instantly find what you need. Type a few letters of the folder name and jump straight there. #newoutlookforwindowsID: 559801 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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
Microsoft Teams: Test your microphone before you join
Before joining a meeting on your pre-join screen, you can test your microphone and speaker to make sure others will hear you clearly. Select Test mic and speaker to record a short audio clip and play it back. This helps you confirm that the right devices are selected and that you’ll be heard—and hear others—once the meeting starts.ID: 560074 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): List email attachments in M365 Copilot
Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot.ID: 497909 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Improved handling of disallowed and failed email reactions
Emails with reactions disallowed will now see the Reactions button grayed out correctly. Additionally, when any attempt to react fails, the local update will no longer remain onscreen and be properly undone.ID: 558442 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD 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 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Admin usage reports for Loop
View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards. Updated May 11, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ID: 421611 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone who has an email address
We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Start a chat with anyone who has an email address, even if they’re not on Teams! They’ll receive an email inviting them to join your chat session as a guest. You’ll be able to chat, share files, and start calls all within Teams!
ID: 513271 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026