Commercial Priority Update
Week of August 6, 2026
Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels now apply directly to Microsoft Entra cloud security groups, closing a governance gap that left security groups outside the classification model you already use everywhere else. The same labels you publish in the Purview portal and configure for Microsoft 365 groups and sites now carry over automatically, with no separate label setup required. That means the access controls and classification tied to sensitive data extend to the security groups actually gating that access, not just the collaboration groups around it. It’s a small config change with an outsized governance payoff for any org running a mature labeling strategy. The feature is currently in development and expected to begin rolling out in August 2026.
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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 August 6, 2026.
Microsoft Teams: Teams frontline BYOD onboarding wizard
Simplify frontline onboarding with an improved Teams mobile experience on personal devices. Workers can easily download and start using the Teams mobile app on their own device in compliance with organizational security policies, reducing the need for manager assistance and IT support.
ID: 523213 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Improved organization for muted and meeting chats
Microsoft Teams automatically organizes your chats with new built in sections that help reduce clutter and keep conversations easy to find. Muted chats (on by default) are grouped together in a dedicated area, while meeting chats (off by default) can be collected into a single section for quick access. You’re always in control, as each section can be turned on or off based on your preferences. The new Meeting chats section will replace the Meeting chats filter, that was previously available at the top of the chat and channel list. Updated July 20, 2026: We have temporarily rolled back this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 559605 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook
We’ve introduced a new experience for Copilot in the apps—a consistent entry point across apps that sits above your work and understands the context beneath it. Rather than scattering touchpoints across the interface, it anchors Copilot as one connected system across Microsoft 365, surfacing relevant actions that help you stay in flow. With this release, we are rolling out this new experience – already available across other Outlook endpoints, as well as in Word, Excel and PowerPoint – to classic Outlook.
ID: 567007 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Installation Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center
Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center will be able to apply app and agent installation changes once and have them consistently enforced across Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Previously, installation changes made in the Microsoft 365 admin center only applied to Outlook and Microsoft 365, while changes made in the Teams admin center only applied to Teams. With this update, app and agent installation is unified across all supported surfaces, enabling a more consistent and streamlined admin experience.
ID: 567883 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
SharePoint: Flexible Section Authoring Improvements
We’ve enhanced Flexible Sections in SharePoint Pages to make page layout creation more intuitive and predictable. Authors can now use visual column layout guides that mirror familiar sections, keep gridlines and layout guides visible while editing, and convert existing sections into Flexible Sections with a single click while preserving content placement. These improvements help authors create richer page designs with greater confidence and consistency across desktop, mobile, and email experiences.
ID: 567889 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI integration in M365 Copilot
This release enables M365 Copilot to reason over Power BI enterprise data and returns grounded answers directly from Power BI reports and semantic models. Users can ask natural‑language questions and receive accurate answers.
ID: 567891 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Copilot Studio: Share Autonomous Agents to End Users (Run-Only)
Previously, autonomous agents could only be used and managed by makers, limiting their reach to the people who needed them. Run-only sharing enables makers to securely share autonomous agents with end users, allowing users to benefit from agent-driven automation without requiring edit permissions or ownership. This extends autonomous agent capabilities to a broader audience while maintaining governance and control.
ID: 567894 Release: Microsoft Copilot Studio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2027
OneNote: Multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks (Android)
Multimodal capture enables users to transcribe audio, take images, and type notes in a single session. Copilot then creates a structured Copilot Page with insights and user-captured content, saved to a user-selected Copilot Notebook. Designed for capturing offline work moments—including in-person conversations, whiteboard sessions, and personal notes. This capability is already generally available on OneNote for iPhone and iPad.
ID: 567895 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Campaigns in SharePoint
Campaigns in SharePoint (site campaigns) is a new capability that brings Viva Amplify’ s campaign management natively into SharePoint. Corporate communications teams now have a unified place to create, distribute, and measure their news without leaving the platform where their news content already lives. This feature applies only to Amplify users as of now. This is a complementary way to create lighter weight campaigns inside a SharePoint site as a way to organize your SharePoint news posts and benefit from campaign analytics directly from SharePoint.
ID: 568073 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
SharePoint: Cross-post SharePoint News to Engage
This feature allows SharePoint News authors to distribute posts to an Engage community or storyline while preserving full fidelity rendering and a unified conversation experience. SharePoint News post will appear consistently in Engage across feeds, digests, Outlook, Teams, desktop, web and mobile apps. When distributed, the SharePoint News comments module is replaced with the richer Engage conversation module, ensuring a single, shared discussion thread across surfaces.
ID: 568074 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Data Security for non-Microsoft connected apps
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Auto-labeling capabilities now extend to non-Microsoft connected apps (e.g., Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Amazon Web Services, and Cisco Webex). The conditions and actions supported for each of these applications vary.
ID: 568075 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips
ID: 394279 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
With Teams Rooms on Windows consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
ID: 548648 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Organizations now have expanded meeting interoperability with two-way Direct Guest Join (DGJ) between Google Meet and Teams meetings. Teams Rooms on Windows devices can join Google Meet meetings, and Google Meet devices can join Teams meetings. Users can join with one click through the calendar or by meeting ID. This capability is now available for both Commercial (Feb 2026) and Government cloud environments.
ID: 562341 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High Tags: July CY2026
Copilot Answers in Copilot Search (in the M365 Copilot App on web and desktop) will provide more concise responses and more prominently highlight the ability to continue in the conversation in Copilot chat on the right-hand sidebar.
ID: 562354 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Outlook Emails as References in Copilot Notebooks bring email content into the notebook experience, enabling users to ground Copilot in the conversations, decisions, and context that drive their work.
By adding emails as knowledge sources, users can connect context from their emails directly to their projects, enriching notebooks beyond files alone and improving downstream outputs like presentations and briefs. Available in Copilot Notebooks across Microsoft 365.
ID: 564910 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
We’re upgrading our topic assignment pipeline to be powered by Copilot, delivering significantly improved accuracy in categorizing survey comments into relevant topics.
ID: 553224 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Admins will be able to manage Teams built-in agents across core Teams experiences, including chats, channels, and meetings, through a dedicated experience in the Teams admin center. From a centralized location, admins can control agents’ availability for users and groups. These agents will be enabled by default for licensed users and managed independently from org-wide Microsoft app settings.
ID: 564766 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2026
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
We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. SMB Admins can use Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams to complete common admin tasks and get guidance on critical setup actions. Admin Agent can add users and assign licenses on behalf of the admin, as well as provide guidance on key SMB related topics such as organisation setup, security settings, and password resets—without leaving the Teams interface.
ID: 558255 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026