Commercial Priority Update
Week of July 23, 2026
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is adding the ability to block specific external domains or individual users from accessing sensitive files in SharePoint and OneDrive, giving admins precise control over who can reach protected content. When a DLP policy detects a file access attempt by a blocked external domain or user, access is denied before exposure occurs, moving enforcement from detection after the fact to prevention at the point of contact. For organizations managing sensitive content shared across organizational boundaries, this update closes a meaningful gap between labeling files as sensitive and actually controlling who can open them. The feature is currently rolling out.
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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 July 23, 2026.
Microsoft Purview: Integration with Entra GSA Internet Access to enable sensitive file filtering at the network layer
Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to filter sensitive files at the network layer by integrating with Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect files at the network layer and enforce restrictive actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. Updated July 17, 2026: The GA release of this item has moved. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 522096 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Session and Response Sharing in M365 Copilot
Session and Response Sharing let Microsoft 365 Copilot users share Copilot chat content through a link. Session Sharing shares a full chat session, while Response Sharing shares a single Copilot response. The shared content opens as a read-only view, and recipients can continue from it in their own Copilot chat. This gives Copilot users an easier and more controlled way to share useful Copilot outputs with coworkers instead of copying and pasting. It helps teams reuse work, share context, and collaborate more efficiently while keeping sharing within organizational controls.
ID: 562353 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: External presenters can access production controls for Teams events
Organizations can allow external presenters to manage Teams events by granting them access to production controls. Federated (B2B) and guest users can be specified in the “Who has control of production tools” setting, enabling trusted external presenters to run events and manage what attendees see. This feature supports organizations that work with third-party event producers and vendors.
ID: 567298 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Prevent presence transition to “Do not disturb” setting when screen sharing (GCC High, DoD)
We’re introducing a setting that allows users to opt-out of transitioning presence automatically to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. This ensures that they can continue to receive calls, keeping them connected and responsive without manual presence adjustments.
ID: 567300 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Explicit recording and transcription consent for PSTN participants now available in GCC High and DoD
We are introducing explicit recording and transcription consent support for PSTN participants joining Microsoft Teams meetings in GCC High and DoD environments. This feature is already available in Public and GCC clouds and is now being extended to sovereign environments. After this rollout, when a meeting is being recorded or transcribed, PSTN participants will be prompted to provide explicit consent before they can unmute and participate. If consent is not provided, participants will remain muted for the duration of the meeting. This update aligns PSTN behavior with the existing consent experience in Teams clients and enhances compliance by ensuring all participants actively acknowledge recording and transcription. This rollout may impact PSTN users joining meetings where recording or transcription is enabled. We recommend informing users about this change so they are prepared to provide consent when prompted.
ID: 567304 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: View and manage auto attendant shared voicemails directly in the Queues app
Calls to an Auto Attendant that are routed to voicemail will now appear directly within Queues app. This enables organizations to manage shared Auto Attendant voicemails in a centralized experience, making it easier for teams to track, triage, and respond to customer messages.
ID: 567457 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Multilingual recap available with translation button
After meeting recap is automatically generated in the translation language chosen during the meeting, users can continue to change the language of the meeting recap after its generated.
ID: 567458 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced live captions settings and right-side panel view
We are improving the live captions experience in Microsoft Teams with new viewing layouts and streamlined configuration options. Users can now view live captions in a new right-side panel, in addition to the existing options of viewing them at the top or bottom of the screen, or popping them out into a separate window.
We are also making it easier to manage caption settings directly within the meeting. By clicking the existing gear icon in the live captions pane, users will see a consolidated menu to quickly configure spoken language, caption styles, and profanity filters without navigating to separate settings panels. Additionally, this menu includes a new toggle to turn on live captions by default for all meetings, as well as a new thumbs-up/thumbs-down feedback mechanism to easily share input on the captioning experience.
ID: 567462 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for DoD environments
Shared display mode in Teams is now available in government DOD environments, enabling more seamless and private meeting hosting from your PC. Additionally, peripheral detection for bring-your-own-device spaces is available for inventory management and reporting through the Pro Management portal.
ID: 567465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Teams events attendance and engagement report policy
Teams events will soon have a separate attendance and engagement report policy from the “”CsTeamsMeetingPolicy”” attendance and engagement report policy. This will permit admins to allow Teams events organizers to access attendance and engagement reports, while restricting access to Teams meeting attendance and engagement reports.
ID: 567466 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Expand presenter visibility in ‘Manage what attendees see’ for Teams events
Users will now be able to resize and expand the presenter panel in ‘Manage what attendees see’ options for Teams events. This feature helps make it easier to view, manage, and switch between presenters during events.
ID: 567467 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: PowerPoint Live Light theme support
Presenting PowerPoint slides in Teams just got better. PowerPoint Live now supports light mode, giving presenters the option to present in light, dark, classic, or high contrast mode based on their preferences and system settings.
ID: 567469 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Agent 365 Dashboard in Insights
Customers can now access their Agent 365 data through the Agent Dashboard in Copilot Analytics (Insights), enabling leaders to understand activity across all agents registered through Agent 365. Customers with Agent 365 and Copilot will now see the Agent 365 Dashboard with the ability to view historical data in Agent Dashboard.
ID: 567667 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
SharePoint: Personal Skills in Copilot in SharePoint
Create your own personal skills in Copilot in SharePoint and use them anywhere you work. Personal skills travel with you across SharePoint sites and OneDrive—so a skill like document generation works everywhere without recreating it per site. You own your skills, saved as a markdown file in your OneDrive.
ID: 567668 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
SharePoint: Enterprise store plugins in Copilot in SharePoint
Copilot in SharePoint now supports plugins from your enterprise store. A plugin can bundle skills, MCP servers, and other capabilities that extend what Copilot can do. Any plugin made available to your organization, whether installed tenant-wide by an admin or added by you, works directly in Copilot in SharePoint, all governed by your M365 admin.
For example, your organization can publish a company-wide accessibility plugin once and have it work consistently across all agentic products, including Copilot in SharePoint, so everyone gets the same accessible experience wherever they work.
ID: 567669 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Agent 365 agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Declarative Agents
Agents that are published to Agents 365 are already managed in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. If the agent implements the Agent2Agent protocol, it can be used as a connected agent for the agents that users build in Agent Builder or Copilot Studio.
ID: 567670 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Planner: Planner Agent chat in Basic Plans
Introducing built-in Planner Agent chat with natural language Q&A, smart task discovery, and in-plan task management.
ID: 567671 Release: Planner, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: External phone call routing (GCC High, DoD)
External call routing will provide users the ability to redirect all external phone calls to either voicemail or their unanswered settings.
ID: 567884 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2026
Outlook: All Day events to show up more clearly in the Mail module Calendar Preview
We’re making it easier to tell when receiving meeting invites that conflict with scheduled Out of Office time or Busy All Day events, on Outlook Web and Outlook for Windows.
ID: 567888 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive
We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence.
ID: 567890 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Agent 365 dashboard for managers
Managers in organizations can now access their Agent 365 data through the Agent Dashboard in Copilot Analytics (Insights), enabling them to understand activity across all agents registered through Agent 365. Customers with Agent 365 and Copilot will now see the Agent 365 Dashboard with the ability to view historical data in Agent Dashboard.
ID: 567893 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content
Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group.
ID: 486828 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat
Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.
ID: 496596 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Block External Domain/User action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive
Block External Domain/User action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, gives organizations stronger control over who can access sensitive files. With this enhancement, admins can configure DLP policies that block file access for specific external domains or individual users. This capability helps prevent unintended exposure by external users and supports enterprise compliance requirements.
ID: 557191 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms up to 1,000 Attendees in Teams meetings
Organizers can now use breakout rooms in Teams meetings with up to 1,000 attendees, enabling more interactive sessions, smaller group discussions, and improved audience engagement without compromising scale or performance.
ID: 560320 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap app
The meeting recap app brings all your meeting recaps into one place, making it easier to find, filter, and catch up. Quick filters help you surface the right meetings instantly, while audio recap lets you efficiently review multiple meetings at once. You can also browse and revisit any recap from the past 30 days.
ID: 564614 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Queues app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and DoD
We’re excited to announce that the Queues app is now available in the GCC High and DoD clouds. This Teams-native app helps organizations manage customer engagements more efficiently by bringing advanced call queue and auto attendant capabilities directly into Teams. Queues app is a Teams Premium feature. For more information about Queues app, including licensing information, please see Manage Queues app for Microsoft Teams in your organization.
ID: 565218 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving
This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.
ID: 477371 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing OCR support
Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (DSI) is extending our investigations by adding optical character recognition (OCR), extracting text from images and incorporating it into investigation data. This enables AI-powered deep content analysis to uncover data security risks that are often hidden within visual content.
ID: 561489 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting
Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Updated July 16, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 325873 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026