Commercial Priority Update
Week of July 30, 2026
Microsoft Purview DLP can now quarantine a sensitive file the instant a policy is triggered, moving it to a restricted, admin-controlled location and cutting off access for every user in real time. The file isn’t deleted it’s preserved for review and investigation while the exposure is contained immediately, not after someone gets around to responding. This closes the gap between detection and enforcement that let sensitive data sit exposed while admins scrambled to react. For SharePoint and OneDrive, that means a leaked contract, credential list, or PII file gets locked down automatically instead of continuing to spread. The feature is currently rolling out for Microsoft Purview DLP customers.
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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 July 30, 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
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – File Quarantine Action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive
File Quarantine action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, enables stronger, immediate protection for sensitive data. When a DLP policy is triggered, the File Quarantine action automatically moves the file to a restricted, admin‑controlled & defined quarantine location—instantly removing access for all users while preserving the file for review and investigation. This capability helps organizations contain data‑exposure risks, prevents further sharing or misuse, and delivers a powerful new layer of enforcement.
ID: 557190 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Meeting toolbar redesigned
You can now customize the meeting toolbar by pinning, unpinning, and reordering controls to match how you work. Raise Hand is grouped under Reactions to reduce mis-clicks, and Leave is clearly separated on the right. It may feel different at first, but it’s designed to be faster and easier to use.
ID: 560321 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Data – Granular access policy controls for custom attributes
We are introducing enhanced access policy management for Organizational Data in Microsoft 365. This update enables admins to release custom attributes to specific users or groups, rather than broadly to all employees or all managers. This provides a more conservative default approach for managing sensitive organizational data, while also supporting staged rollout of new attributes. Additionally, admins can configure whether leaders and managers are permitted to share non-public data with Workforce Insights delegates. This enhancement improves governance, flexibility, and control over organizational data access.
ID: 564805 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
OneDrive: New Shortcuts folder option when adding shortcuts
OneDrive makes it easy to add shortcuts to the files and folders you use most. Now you can choose to keep those shortcuts neatly together in one place instead of mixed in with everything else. When you add a shortcut, you can send it to a dedicated “Shortcuts” folder rather than your OneDrive root. The folder is created automatically the first time you use it and is easy to spot, with a distinct color and building icon. The Shortcuts folder behaves like any other folder—move it, rename it, share it, or remove it whenever you like.
ID: 565028 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Multi-line Calling on Teams Mobile
Make and receive calls using multiple assigned phone numbers directly from your mobile device – choose the right line for every call, with unified call history and seamless switching across all your lines.
ID: 565131 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills- removal and deletion admin control
A new admin control in the People Skills settings lets administrators permanently remove their organization’s People Skills data from the tenant. With this new control, organizations can delete their entire skills library along with all users confirmed, inferred, and imported skills data—giving them full control to offboard from People Skills in support of data governance and compliance needs.
Once deletion is initiated, skills will no longer appear on user profile cards or be used across Microsoft 365 skills-based experiences such as Copilot and Viva. The control is admin-only with no automatic changes.
ID: 565905 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
OneDrive: Document library views now available in OneDrive
Users can now work with SharePoint document library views directly from OneDrive. In addition to switching between existing views, users can create and manage views to customize how library content is organized and displayed. This helps teams surface the information that matters most while staying within the OneDrive experience.
ID: 566313 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
PowerPoint: Create on brand presentations with additional brand assets
Seamlessly access your brand colors, images, icons, logos and more right within PowerPoint to create on-brand presentations.
ID: 566351 Release: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Insights for GitHub Copilot spend and usage
AI spend and usage insights for GitHub Copilot will be available on Viva Insights for managers with at least 5 direct reports (scoped access), Global analysts and Microsoft Global administrators. They can track spend and make data-driven decisions for AI spend and usage in GitHub Copilot. The dashboard is enabled by default to ensure immediate access.
ID: 566470 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Inline search in compose box
We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Teams enables search directly within the compose box using @mentions, allowing you to quickly find and insert Files, Chats, Channels, and Meetings without leaving your message. By extending @mentions beyond people, Teams provides a more unified and efficient way to reference content in context. This experience reduces context switching and helps streamline collaboration within conversations.
ID: 564612 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026