Commercial Priority Update
Week of January 15, 2026
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is expanding insider risk management to include AI agents, recognizing their growing role as part of the enterprise digital workforce. As agents gain the ability to access data, execute actions, and make decisions at machine speed, this update introduces agent-specific risk indicators and scoring based on agentic activity. By correlating signals related to data leakage, IP exposure, and policy violations, organizations can extend existing insider risk governance models to non-human actors while maintaining privacy-by-design controls. This capability is currently in development and is expected to roll out in February 2026 for 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 January 15, 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 Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance
We are updating private channels to use a shared mailbox, similar to shared channels, instead of messages being stored in each user’s mailbox. With this change, compliance policies set for the team’s Microsoft 365 group will apply to private channels messages going forward. In addition, teams will support more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit for the team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels.
ID: 500381 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Organizational Data Ingestion System (MODIS) now available in GCC-Moderate
We’re excited to announce that MODIS (Microsoft Organizational Data Ingestion System) is now available in the GCC-Moderate (GCC-M) environment! MODIS provides a secure, compliant, and scalable platform for ingesting organizational data into Microsoft 365. With this release, government cloud customers can now leverage the same powerful data ingestion capabilities previously available only in commercial environments.
ID: 508518 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Broadcast, Meetings and custom events with moderated feed, annoynmous posting on web & mobile
Enhancing the Engage Events experience with additional capabilities such as Broadcast for large scale produced events, Meetings based Events. Organizers will have additional support for moderating the posted questions and conversations, and attendees can post questions anonymously. An Events Landing page allows for attendees and organizers to have one place for the contiguous events experience of “”Before””, “”During”” and “”After””
ID: 537280 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Scheduling with Copilot chat in classic Outlook for Windows
Users can now schedule meetings directly from chat or by clicking “Schedule with Copilot” in the UI. Simply ask Copilot to schedule a meeting with colleagues, and it will find available times, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites—all within the chat experience. This feature is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
ID: 542185 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Easily find unsent drafts
Use the Drafts quick view to easily find, edit, and send draft messages.
ID: 542789 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Create custom environments and templates for immersive events in Microsoft Teams
This release brings the next evolution in immersive collaboration in Teams. Designed for creators and event organizers, these new capabilities empower users to create, manage, and use immersive templates for immersive events in Teams and save those templates to collections to use in future events—directly within the Teams Meet app. Users can save customized immersive events as reusable templates to an immersive collection, and share them with others by adding co-owners and managers to collections.
ID: 542794 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Sort by flag
We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
ID: 543208 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling
Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams calling.
ID: 543239 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Clear & Flag Actions in New Outlook
We’re introducing new rule actions in the new Outlook for Web and Windows to give users greater flexibility and control. This includes Clear Categories, Clear Flag, Complete Flag, and Flag Message, enabling more precise automation of message organization and follow‑up workflows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 543425 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Call quality feedback surveys for Teams Rooms on Android
Users can now rate the quality of their calls and meetings and provide additional feedback on calling, video, and screen-sharing experiences to help organizations ensure consistent, high-quality experiences.
ID: 543713 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: 545063 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms
Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates — such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents — ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Users can then generate the right document every time by just filling out the form, without manual formatting, versioning issues, or compliance risk, simplifying high-volume, structured document workflows across the organization.
ID: 545896 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup capabilities available in GCC
We are bringing Microsoft 365 Backup Service capabilities to GCC. Microsoft 365 Backup is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users.
ID: 494517 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC 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 compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls
We’re expanding the Interpreter agent in Microsoft Teams to include real-time speech-to-speech interpretation for Teams calls. This brings the same functionality previously available in meetings to calls, enabling users to speak and listen in up to nine supported languages. Interpreter helps eliminate language barriers and fosters seamless collaboration across global teams. For a more inclusive experience, users can also opt to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice.
ID: 526777 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups in GCC
App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.
ID: 527830 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1
Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can utilize Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) and admin quarantine for zapped Teams messages.
ID: 529816 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Shared call history in Queues app
Queues app now supports shared history for all missed, incoming, and outgoing calls in a queue. This new feature provides greater visibility and collaboration by allowing users to view a complete call history across the team. Shared history can be enabled by your Teams admin, who can choose to grant access to either: All members of the queue, or Only authorized users
ID: 530579 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Select multiple messages to forward
You can now select up to five messages from a chat or channel and forward them together in one message—preserving both context and order.
ID: 536997 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD 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 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 compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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: 526789 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on container label of a group/site/team
This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. #copilotcontrolsystem This feature has been postponed indefinitely and has been cancelled.
ID: 421192 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026