Play of the Week
January 2, 2026
Microsoft is expanding Microsoft 365 Copilot’s mobile capabilities with voice notes, allowing users to capture offline conversations and turn them into structured, searchable, and actionable content. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, users will be able to record voice notes directly in the Copilot mobile app and later revisit key takeaways, summaries, and insights. This feature is currently in development and is expected to begin rolling out worldwide for standard multi-tenant environments in January 2026.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for January 2, 2026
Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs
After further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as “launched.” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs.
ID: 482198 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC
Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration.
ID: 493742 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Enhanced scope drilldown
Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 495463 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Places: Microsoft Places Support to GCC cloud
Microsoft Places features will now be available in GCC cloud
ID: 495465 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: March 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: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard
As a Microsoft Purview user, you’ll be able to view outages, service issues, and advisories that might impact your services. This new dashboard will combine the services and solutions health of Purview, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Cloud Services in one central place in the Purview portal, eliminating the need to go to several places to find this information.
ID: 497944 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Agents usage report
A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 497999 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Capture voice notes in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, transform offline discussions into structured, actionable, and searchable content with voice notes in Copilot.
ID: 498640 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Entra: Conditional Access support for Entra ID Account Recovery
Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery is an advanced authentication recovery mechanism that enables users to regain access to their organizational accounts when they’ve lost access to all registered authentication methods. This feature adds additional support for protecting the account recovery flow by enabling CA policies to be applied. Learn more
ID: 529855 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat History Landing page: Filtering UI Refresh
To help you quickly find the conversations that matter, we’re updating the Chat History filtering experience. This refresh makes the interface simpler and makes it easier to clear filters whenever you need to.
ID: 543423 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Auto-Archive for Exchange Online
A new capability called Auto-Archiving for Exchange Online will enter public preview in November 2025 (currently under private preview for selected customers). When a user’s mailbox utilization exceeds 95% of its quota and archive mailbox is present, this feature automatically moves the oldest items excluding those tagged with “Never Move to Archive” from the primary mailbox to the archive mailbox to prevent mail flow disruptions by keeping usage below the safe threshold of 95% of mailbox quota.
ID: 543427 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces
This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group’s geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator’s preferred data location.
ID: 421616 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Freshservice to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Fresh service to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector.
ID: 513280 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Updated UI for Microsoft Copilot Navigation Pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Teams
We’re refreshing the Copilot Chat navigation pane to simplify the agents list and increase the visible chat history list beyond a user’s five most recent chats with a more prominent chat history search UI.
ID: 516570 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention
The Data Security Triage Agent creates an agent-managed alert queue that identifies and prioritizes the DLP and IRM alerts that pose the greatest risk to your organization. It delivers a summary and clear explanation for why each alert was prioritized, helping analysts focus on what matters most.
For this GA release, we’re introducing expanded coverage (which also includes Endpoint DLP alerts as well as alerts that leverage Custom SITs (Sensitive Information Types)) and support for Entra Agent ID.
ID: 542190 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
There are no cancelled roadmap updates this week.