Commercial Priority Update
Week of March 5, 2026
Microsoft Teams is introducing simplified controls for managing external collaboration through a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center. Administrators can review and modify their organization’s external collaboration configuration using a guided workflow that supports open, controlled, or fully customized collaboration modes. By consolidating these settings into a single experience, Microsoft is making it easier for IT teams to balance external collaboration with organizational security and governance requirements. The update is rolling out beginning February 2026 for Commercial and GCC 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 March 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 Teams: Automatically update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi
When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to automatically update their work location to reflect the building they’re working from.
This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in.
ID: 488800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile
DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
ID: 491016 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Frontier and Microsoft agent user request approval flow in Microsoft 365 admin center
For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 494809 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 admin center – 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 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 app: Microsoft Places Support to GCCH and DoD
“Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work. Places helps organizations reimagine flexible work with AI, enables employees to connect more easily in person so that they can make the most of in-office days.
ID: 497998 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC High, DoD 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: Data Loss Prevention- Data Loss Prevention to safeguard sensitive web search in Microsoft 356 Copilot and Copilot Chat
We are expanding Microsoft Purview DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat to safeguard web searches containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from using sensitive data for external web search. This capability currently extends to Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents built in Copilot Studio that are published to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
ID: 548671 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Videos in the Clipchamp Start Page
Users can use Copilot to create videos directly from the Clipchamp Start page. Turn a simple prompt or existing document into a polished video in minutes. Copilot will automatically draft a script, selects visuals, add narration, and assembles the video for you—no video editing experience required. Review, refine, and export your video quickly, all in one flow.
ID: 553215 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Building level insights on the Pro Management portal recommended actions page
IT gets new building level insights on the recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This feature intelligently identifies buildings with high Teams Rooms utilization to help IT prioritize upgrades of bring your own device (BYOD) meeting spaces and ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences throughout their office buildings. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro or Shared Space license.
ID: 553591 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android
View and control live transcription during a meeting from a Teams
Rooms on Android device. The real-time transcript includes speaker names and
timestamps. You can adjust settings such as spoken language, translated
language, and whether both original and translated transcripts are displayed
side by side on the front of room display. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 555234 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Branded footer in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
This update introduces a co-branding experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app that helps organizations present an admin approved visual identifier directly within the Chat screen. Specifically, the experience enables administrators to leverage the organization-supported logo already managed in the Microsoft Admin Center theming settings and display it in the footer of the Chat screen, paired with a fixed label: “Approved by”.
ID: 555852 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint
Agent Mode in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
ID: 557276 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint
Agent Mode in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
ID: 557277 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Pay-as-you-go model for Other Generative AI apps indicators
Other AI apps will move to pay-as-you-go model. Microsoft Copilot experiences indicators can still be used for free even without subscription. To continue using Other AI apps indicators, please link an Azure subscription to Microsoft Purview to enable billing.
Insider Risk Management indicators transitioning to a pay-as-you-go pricing model: “Entering risky prompt in Other AI apps”. This indicator is present in Policy indicators-> Generative AI apps -> Other AI apps
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: 557548 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing a new URL click alert in Teams via Microsoft Defender for Office 365
We are introducing a new URL click alert that proactively notifies security teams when a user clicks on a malicious link in Teams, helping organizations quickly identify risk and respond before further impact occurs.
ID: 557549 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent Updates
Updates include dynamic, channel‑aware welcome messages, greater flexibility in channel creation (with or without an agent), expanded agent permissions for member management, scheduling enhancements, and overall quality improvements.
ID: 557555 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Localized Default Mark and Notify Email Template
Enabling localization for the default Mark and Notify email template used in admin review and automation flows for user reported messages. This ensures end users receive review outcome notifications in their preferred language, improving understanding, trust, and participation in email reporting within Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
ID: 557558 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Auto-open Copilot side pane for Outlook links
When users open links from Outlook, Microsoft Edge can automatically open the Copilot side pane to provide contextual insights and actionable suggestion chips based on email and destination content – such as highlighting key points, and recommending next actions – without disrupting the browsing flow. This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge.
ID: 557561 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document by default in Word
The default chat experience with Copilot in Word now allows Copilot to directly edit your document. All changes made by Copilot are fully reviewable and reversible, and users can turn this experience off if needed.
ID: 557673 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Delimiter setting admin policy
Admins will be able to define a tenant‑wide default value for the Mail Compose and Reply setting that controls whether commas are used to separate recipients.
ID: 557676 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery- CMK (Customer managed key) for eDiscovery direct export
This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data included in the direct export workflow in eDiscovery, adding to the Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.
ID: 557684 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Multiple phone number assignment to a single user
Administrators will be able to assign multiple phone numbers (up to 10) to a single user. Users will be able to make and receive phone calls using any number assigned to them without switching accounts or devices. This capability brings flexibility and efficiency to scenarios where individuals manage multiple roles, regions, or responsibilities.
ID: 557716 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Share agents to Teams
With this feature, users will be able to share their agent with a Microsoft Teams team. Users can search for and find teams in the agent sharing dialog box. Users can also send a notification to the main channel of that team to make members aware of an agent being shared with them, and as an easy way to install and start using the agent.
ID: 557947 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Centralized notification settings for channels
Centralized notification settings streamline channel notification setup and management. Available in Teams settings, users have a single place to review and adjust notifications for all visible channels, instead of managing each individually.
ID: 557970 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- New policy configuration options available for inline network and Edge for Business policies
Admins can now scope Purview collection policies for unmanaged cloud apps based on the presence of sensitivity labels, enabling more precise discovery of sensitive activity across inline network traffic and the Edge for Business browser. Purview DLP policies also support “URL contains text” as a condition and exception, providing finer control over unmanaged cloud app usage across the network and Edge for Business, along with configurable email notifications to alert end users when activities are blocked.
ID: 557976 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Security Store now available within Purview DLP to browse, purchase, and enable partner integrations
Security Store is now integrated into the Microsoft Purview DLP experience, giving admins an in-product way to discover, purchase, and enable a curated set of integrations that extend Purview capabilities, including data security capabilities for the network. This integration simplifies how organizations activate and manage partner integrations directly within Purview.
ID: 557977 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Measure Copilot sentiment to change manage and scale Copilot adoption
Add new Viva Pulse survey templates for Copilot readiness, adoption, and business value, with built-in entry points and reporting surfaced directly in the Copilot Dashboard. All Copilot templates are fully customizable in Pulse, with the ability to add or edit questions using Copilot authoring and the question library. Organizations can also easily upload pilot group users into Pulse via CSV to target surveys at the right audiences from day one.
ID: 557979 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
SharePoint: New SharePoint Home site experience
SharePoint home sites are getting the following new updates – A resources web part, a new UX to customize the SharePoint app (Viva Connections) experience for Teams desktop and mobile and ability to set up a new home site in the SharePoint admin center. Additionally, Announcements web part and a new layout for News web part will be available in all sites.
ID: 557983 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2026
SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites
The News page renders news items in a given site. It is typically accessed via the “see all” experience of a news web part. We are updating the user experience of this page and bringing in Copilot capabilities to licensed users. Updated February 9, 2026: GA rollout for this item is starting in late February. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 499654 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for MacOS on Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365
This feature allows MAC endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance.
ID: 502524 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report
Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies.
ID: 511816 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Hide a user’s messages in Viva Engage
The hide user messages feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center.
ID: 513276 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for Windows endpoints on Omnissa environments
This feature allows Windows endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance.
ID: 518286 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Simplified controls to manage external collaboration
Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization’s external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and select either the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings.
ID: 523211 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
SharePoint: Site Branding Governance via PowerShell
Empower tenant admins to centrally manage SharePoint site branding using PowerShell scripts. This feature enables organizations to enforce consistent branding, apply enterprise themes to individual sites, disable custom branding on specific sites, and audit branding changes – ensuring branding compliance and a unified brand experience across all SharePoint sites.
ID: 526794 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Organization Evaluation Score for Apps and Agents
Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent—generating an evaluation score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization’s standards and where further review is needed.
ID: 532720 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-User based alert aggregation
User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior.
ID: 537276 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Choose Your Enter Key Behavior in Teams Chat
Microsoft Teams now gives you control over how the Enter key works when composing messages. You can choose whether pressing Enter sends your message or starts a new line—making it easier to write longer messages without accidental sends.
ID: 537279 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
SharePoint: OneNote usage inclusion in SharePoint site analytics
With this release, usage from OneNote files (.one) in SharePoint will be included in SharePoint site analytics metrices “Unique viewers” and “Site visits”. You will also see OneNote files appear in the popular content section if a OneNote file is heavily used in the last 7 days. Refer to the more information link to learn more about the list of excluded file types.
ID: 537285 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February 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 Purview: Insider Risk Management-New Microsoft Fabric lakehouse risk indicators
With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric lakehouses (in addition to Power BI which is supported today) by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Fabric lakehouses. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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: 543243 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-New quick policies to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric & non-Microsoft 365 data sources
We are adding to Insider Risk Management a pre-configured quick policy template to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric and non-Microsoft 365 data sources like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will enable admins to create scenario-specific policies, with little configurations needed, to get started faster. All scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page > Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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: 543244 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enable watermarks for AI-generated content for M365 Copilot
Add watermarks for AI-generated video, audio, and image gen content.
ID: 547831 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Events in Meet app in Teams
Users can now use the Teams Meet app to discover events across their organization, track what important events are upcoming, and plan and organize their own professional events.
ID: 547834 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint
Agent Mode in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot uses your files, meetings, emails, and more to help shape content and iterate quickly, and it connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.
ID: 548520 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Role Group changes in Purview
We are introducing a new Microsoft Purview RBAC role—Purview Agent Deployment—and adding it to various existing built in role groups used by analysts and admins across Purview. This change enables users who use built-in role analyst groups to deploy Security Copilot Agents in Purview without needing any additional roles. If your organization prefers to limit agent deployment permissions, you can create a custom role group that does not include the Purview Agent Deployment role and assign that custom role group to analysts who should not be able to deploy agents. This update does not change default data access or expand visibility into customer content. All other permissions within each role group remain unchanged. Analysts who are assigned to custom role groups will not be able to deploy agents unless the Purview Agent Deployment role is explicitly added to those custom groups. We recommend reviewing and updating your organization’s RBAC documentation, internal processes, or onboarding guides to reflect these change We recommend reviewing and updating your organization’s RBAC documentation, internal processes, or onboarding guides to reflect these changes.
ID: 551147 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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: June CY2026
Outlook: One-step folder sharing
Today, sharing a folder requires manually sharing each parent folder in the hierarchy. Outlook will simplify this by allowing users to share a folder in a single step, automatically applying the required permissions to its parent folders. Before sharing, users will clearly see which folders (including parent folders) will be shared. This removes manual effort while keeping users informed and in control.
ID: 557680 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.
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: 422503 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February 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: February 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. Updated January 28, 2026: We are pausing rollout at this time as we address an ongoing issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 542189 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Minecraft Education: Update v1.21.13
The “Copper, Collaborate & Compete” update for Minecraft Education, bringing the version to 1.21.13.
ID: 542194 Release: Minecraft Education – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February 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 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: New search folder types
Search Folders are being moved to the Settings experience in the new Outlook for Web and Windows, 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: 549286 Release: Outlook – 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