Commercial Priority Update
Week of February 5, 2026
Microsoft Outlook is enhancing calendar visibility in the new Outlook by automatically displaying teammates’ calendars—such as peers, direct reports, and managers—in the left navigation pane. This update makes it easier for users to understand availability at a glance, reducing friction when scheduling meetings and coordinating work across teams. By surfacing relevant calendars without manual setup, Microsoft is streamlining day-to-day collaboration in the new Outlook experience. The feature is currently in development and is expected to roll out beginning March 2026 for Commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD 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 February 5, 2026.
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Lists in Context IQ
Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Lists through the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
ID: 422308 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catchup on important emails in Copilot Chat
Copilot Chat helps you stay on top of your inbox by highlighting important and actionable emails such as messages from your manager, leadership, top collaborators, or emails containing tasks when you use prompts like “What’s hot in my inbox?” or “What were the important emails from last week?”
ID: 494515 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps
You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands. Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more.
ID: 495002 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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
Outlook: Show teammates’ calendars in the left navigation pane
Users can now see their teammates’ calendars (including peers, direct reports, and managers) automatically displayed in the left navigation pane of the new outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495468 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat access to page content will soon extend to work across multiple open tabs
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge will soon be able to answer contextual questions about a user’s open window. This extends the existing capability which can only access the open page. All existing user settings and policies and DLP considerations will continue to be respected.
ID: 496364 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 – 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
OneNote: Copilot Notebook in OneNote iPhone and iPad
Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad.
ID: 511794 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot connectors are available for U.S. Department of Defense environment
Copilot connectors enable organizations to integrate content from other external data sources into Microsoft Graph, improving Copilot’s intelligence, contextual responses, and content discoverability
ID: 512428 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft 365: Enhancements to the room booking experience in the Places app
We’re enhancing the room booking experience in the Places App to align with the desk booking flow and visuals. This unifies the booking experience across rooms and desks.
ID: 547829 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast
With this feature when multiple files are involved in a DLP enforcement action, the policy tip will now show multiple files and their respective status.
ID: 547832 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Source context based file protection for Endpoint
Protect file based on the website the file is downloaded or the app the file is created.
ID: 547835 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Copilot Chat
Currently, clicking on cited content in Copilot opens files outside of Copilot. With this new feature, content can be opened directly in Copilot Chat to make viewing documents more streamlined alongside chat. This change is not available on the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app or when using Copilot in Edge, Copilot in Excel, Copilot in Word, and Copilot PowerPoint.
ID: 548641 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: New search folder types
Search folders are being moved to the Settings experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web, improving discoverability and alignment with modern organization workflows. In addition, we are expanding supported search folder types, including mail with attachments, old mail, and large mail and more. Users will also gain the ability to filter search folders by specific folders, providing more precise control over how email is organized and surfaced. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 549287 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint
Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you’re refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more.
ID: 551187 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image Upload in Copilot Chat for Government Cloud
The image upload feature in Microsoft 365 Copilot allows users to upload images and seek insights from Copilot based on those images. We are bringing this capability to Government Cloud environments, delivering parity with existing Copilot experiences while ensuring the functionality operates within applicable Government Cloud boundaries.
ID: 551194 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory – Copilot is now personalized with work data
Copilot now uses M365 Graph data to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences.
ID: 551195 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot configuration insights in the Copilot Dashboard Readiness page
The Copilot Dashboard’s updated Readiness page provides IT leaders with tailored Copilot configuration recommendations. Th suggested settings are meant to streamline deployment, enhance user experience, and help users get most out of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat and agents. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 551196 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Navigation management for Progress Web Apps
Microsoft Edge has improved how a Progressive Web App (PWA) handles user navigation. When a user clicks a link, the browser will determine whether it should launch the installed PWA or open a new browser tab to give users a more seamless experience.
ID: 551198 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Print calendar events in new Outlook and Teams
Users will now have basic options for printing calendar events in the #newoutlookforwindows and Teams calendar, including choosing whether to show or hide the attendee list on the printout.
ID: 551199 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: People Skills on the profile card expanding to Teams
Access to People Skills on the Microsoft 365 profile card is expanding to Microsoft Teams. With this update, employees will be able to view skills directly on the profile card in Teams—making it easier to learn about colleagues, build meaningful connections, and manage their own skills profile right from within their everyday flow of work.
ID: 552588 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Customize M365 Copilot for your organization with Copilot Tuning
Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning is introducing new templates in Agent Builder, designed for tasks such as drafting complex documents, validating documents against guidelines, and editing to match a distinct writing style. Users with Copilot Tuning enabled can further customize the template-based agents by tuning the context, tools, and underlying models with their organization’s proprietary data, processes, and standards. This empowers your teams with customized agents aligned to how your organization works.
ID: 552589 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Upload Local Files now Support .eml and .msg file types
Users will now be able to upload .eml and .msg files and share it as context with Copilot Chat and M365 Copilot App.
ID: 552591 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box
When users insert content in a prompt using ‘Add Work Content’ under the Plus menu, the content will only appear as a pill in the Input Box UI and will not be repeated as part of the user’s prompt. This helps to simplify the Input Box and reserve it for prompt creation.
ID: 552592 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
SharePoint: Dark mode support in SharePoint Admin Center
Dark mode will now be supported in SharePoint Admin Center.
ID: 552593 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Extensions monitoring in the Edge management service
The Microsoft Edge management service now allows admins to gain visibility into extensions installed across their managed users. From the extensions monitoring page, admins can see which extensions have been installed as well as manage user requests for blocked extensions.
ID: 552597 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: February CY2026
Microsoft 365: Modernized Access Denied Web Experience
We’re introducing a visual refresh of the Access Denied web experience across Microsoft 365, where users can request access to files, sites, and meeting recordings. This update features a modern Fluent design with new illustrations, animations, and clearer messaging to help users quickly gain confidence and seamlessly continue their collaboration.
ID: 553214 Release: Microsoft 365, OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Fabric integration in Data Risk Assessment
Within Purview’s Data Security Posture Management (preview), Data Risk Assessment now supports scanning all Fabric workspaces for potentially overshared Fabric data (dashboards, reports, etc.). The new Fabric tab in Data Risk Assessment allows users to view default assessment results, create custom assessments for scoped Fabric workspaces, and take proactive actions to secure your Fabric data.
ID: 553217 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: March CY2026
Microsoft 365: New profile cards for buildings, rooms and desks
Buildings, rooms and desks that are added to the Places directory will have new profile cards, accessible from Copilot Chat and across other Microsoft 365 entry points.
ID: 553219 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Intune: macOS Custom Compliance
This feature will enable users to use discovery script and json file to define compliance policy to specific organziational needs. The experience mirrors Windows and Linux custom compliance experience.
ID: 553222 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft 365: New map-based room booking experience in Places Finder
We are enhancing the room booking experience in the new calendar experience across Outlook for Windows, Outlook for the web, and Teams by introducing a map view within Places Finder. This update replaces the existing side panel with a full screen, easier to use interface that helps people quickly find and book the right space.
ID: 553225 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User analytics
With this feature, insights will be generated for potentially risky behaviors at a user level and will be surfaced across the following experiences:
1) Insider risk management context in DLP alert investigation
2) Insider risk management context in Communication compliance alert investigation
3) Insider risk management context in Microsoft Defender XDR user entity page
4) Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR
User analytics will cover all eligible users in the tenant including users not in the scope of any Insider risk management policy. Customers can enable/disable user analytics in their tenant from Insider Risk Management settings.
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 to manage security and compliance. 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: 475058 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams
Customers will now be able to migrate content seamlessly from Slack public and private channels to Teams shared, public, and private channels. A new first-party migration tool in the Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to review which Slack channels they wish to migrate, then perform content migration to Teams.
ID: 485709 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams
Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on ‘Add agents and bots’ from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group.
ID: 515465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams rooms on Windows
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 Windows licensed for Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 516571 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Cross-platform policies in the Edge management service
Admins can now configure policies for Edge for Business across macOS, iOS, and Android devices on top of their existing Windows configurations in the Edge management service.
ID: 522536 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Restart your Town hall event
Teams town hall producers can now restart a live event while the event is active in order to address technical issues that might arise during the execution of an instance. Whether technical, network, or other issue, this feature enables those managing the event to quickly resolve problems for attendees. This feature is designed to prevent the need for scheduling entirely new events.
ID: 523214 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Troubleshoot meetings and calls with automatic issue identification and recommendations
Administrators can troubleshoot Teams meetings and calls in Teams admin center with ease with a streamlined flow, meeting quality issues, and detailed telemetry.
ID: 526784 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Excel: Python in Excel
Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.
ID: 526786 Release: Excel – GCC High Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Microsoft designed dark themes for SharePoint Sites
Introduce two official Microsoft-designed dark themes for SharePoint sites, delivering a modern, elegant look with improved visual comfort and accessibility. These themes provide consistent branding options and enhance user experience in low-light environments while maintaining compliance with Microsoft design standards.
ID: 526788 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to Share with Summary for OneDrive files in Windows
We’re bringing the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot directly into your daily file experience in Windows. With this feature, users can summarize files and send the summary within the share dialog. This feature will be available in File Explorer and OneDrive Activity Center.
ID: 527840 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Network Device Interface (NDI) bandwidth increase
Microsoft Teams will soon increase the bandwidth when Network Device Interface (NDI) is used with Teams meetings, webinars, or town halls. When an NDI feed is subscribed within the meeting, the bandwidth will automatically increase without the need to pin or spotlight select users for prioritization. Customers can experience up to 8 distinct 1080p NDI streams based on network conditions.
ID: 529854 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block external users in Microsoft Teams from Defender Portal
Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and above can block external users from sending messages, calls, meetings invitation over Microsoft Teams via the Tenant Allow Block List in Microsoft Defender portal
ID: 542189 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Automatic removal of EXIF data from shared images
Teams will automatically remove hidden metadata (EXIF) from images shared in conversations. This privacy protection helps prevent sensitive information such as photo location and device details from being shared without your knowledge.
ID: 542795 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Save an Event as a Draft on iOS
We’re introducing the ability to save meeting invites as drafts on mobile. This feature allows users to begin composing a meeting and return to it later without sending the invite immediately—helping them stay organized and flexible when scheduling.
ID: 545895 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer
This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance.
ID: 498915 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements
Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.
ID: 498922 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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: 515172 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk management for agents
As AI agents become deeply embedded in enterprise ecosystems, they are evolving beyond simple tools or workflows into a digital workforce. These agents can interpret intent, access and manipulate enterprise data, execute actions and even make real-time decisions. In many ways, they operate like human insiders only with machine-speed data processing capabilities. To govern and protect these agents effectively, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is being expanded to agents, with specific indicators and insider risk score built for agents based on agentic activities. 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: 516032 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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: 518224 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: v.144 – Improved Autofill experience in Microsoft Edge
When users fill in an Address on a form, they will be prompted to choose whether to save it for future Autofill suggestions. This enhancement ensures Autofill data is saved intentionally by users and reduces unwanted entries as part of their Autofill suggestion.
ID: 522537 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: v.144 – New WebGL software backend
Microsoft Edge, on Windows systems without a physical GPU, will use the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) rasterizer for WebGL workloads. Prior versions use SwiftShader. This scenario is most common associated with headless environments and virtual machines. On non-Windows platforms, a physical GPU will be required for WebGL moving forward.
ID: 527833 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Email attachment Preview in Activity Explorer
We’re enhancing Activity Explorer to provide greater visibility into sensitive data flagged in Exchange Online. Previously, only the message body was viewable, which limited insight into flagged content. With this update, admins will be able to preview email attachments directly within Activity Explorer—without needing to download the email.
ID: 527834 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Ability for IT admins to customize the user notification strings for recording and transcription
IT admins can customize the message and privacy link used to notify implicitly or gain explicit consent from meeting participants for the use of recording, transcription during the meeting.
ID: 536570 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: v.144 – Tenant Restrictions v2 (TRv2)
New enforcement to block access from unauthorized Microsoft 365 tenants directly in Microsoft Edge for Business, helping organizations maintain strict compliance and prevent data leakage across tenant boundaries.
ID: 536580 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint DLP – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Mac devices
With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on Mac devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive.
ID: 543714 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a FAQ page based on content in Copilot Notebook
The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a FAQ page based on your notebook content—no prompt writing needed. Updated January 29, 2026: We are no longer moving forward with this release. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ID: 497133 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a Brief page based on content in Copilot Notebook
The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a Brief page based on your notebook content—no prompt writing needed. Updated January 29, 2026: We are no longer moving forward with this release. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ID: 497134 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Scheduling via Copilot chat
Executive Assistants can now seamlessly schedule, edit, and send meeting invites on behalf of their leaders directly within Copilot chat. Using simple chat commands, they can create invites, make updates, and add attendees—all without leaving the chat experience.
ID: 511817 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Meeting Search via Copilot chat
Delegates can now use Copilot chat to quickly find their leader’s meetings—past or upcoming—by simply asking questions. They can search by attendee name, meeting title, location, or time range to instantly get details like the next 1:1 or upcoming appointments.
ID: 511818 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Meeting Triage via Copilot chat
Delegates can now manage their leader’s meetings directly through Copilot chat reviewing pending invites, accepting or declining meetings, categorizing, or even deleting them all through simple chat commands without leaving the conversation.
ID: 511819 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026