Commercial Priority Update
Week of January 8, 2026
Microsoft is expanding Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention on MacOS with enhanced content extraction and significantly broader file type coverage. This update increases the number of supported file types from approximately 40 to more than 100, bringing Mac endpoint DLP protection in line with coverage already available across Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. The feature is currently in development and is expected to begin rolling out worldwide for standard multi-tenant environments in January 2026.
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 8, 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 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 compliance portal – 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: 543969 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Autocorrect in Teams compose
Users will now have commonly misspelled words automatically corrected in compose.
ID: 534487 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow
Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “”All risk factors”” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX.
ID: 493755 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Add a Partner to Viva Glint
This feature will simplify the process to onboard external resources (Partners) to your Viva Glint instance.
ID: 523216 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot gives users more control over reasoning depth, enabling automatic reasoning for simple tasks and explicit control when desired. The three modes that are supported as part of GPT-5 are: Auto (default) – system decides how long to think, Quick response – answers right away, Think deeper – Thinks longer for better answers.
ID: 532736 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
There are no cancelled roadmap updates this week.