Commercial Priority Update
Week of October 15, 2026
Microsoft Edge is adding support for displaying sensitivity labels applied to Microsoft Information Protection-protected PDFs in the new Edge PDF viewer, giving users immediate visibility into a document’s classification before they act on it. When a protected PDF is opened, the applied sensitivity label is surfaced directly in the viewer — helping users understand the data handling requirements for that document without leaving the browser or opening a separate tool. For organizations relying on sensitivity labels as a primary data classification mechanism, this update closes a visibility gap that previously left users unaware of a PDF’s protection status at the point of use. The feature is currently in development and expected to begin rolling out in November 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 October 15, 2026.
Microsoft Edge: Adding support for viewing Sensitivity labels applied to a Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) Protected PDF
Enterprise customers can view sensitivity labels applied to MIP protected PDF to be well informed of the data classification to enable them to handle such sensitive documents. This change will be available in the new PDF viewer on Microsoft Edge.
ID: 489232 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Outlook: Improved SharePoint file experience in file picker in Outlook mobile apps
Users can more easily work with SharePoint files in Outlook by saving email attachments directly to SharePoint and searching across SharePoint sites for files from the file picker.
ID: 570442 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Copilot Studio: Discover and use shared plugins in Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio now connects to Microsoft’s shared plugin registry, making it easier for makers to discover and use plugins, connectors, and other available capabilities. This integration provides a more consistent way to extend agents with capabilities across Microsoft’s AI ecosystem.
ID: 570669 Release: Microsoft Copilot Studio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Field Service: Capture project expenses directly from Field Service Work Orders
Technicians can create, update, and submit project-related expenses directly from a Work Order in Field Service web and mobile when the Field Service and Project Operations integration is enabled. Expenses remain connected to the related project and follow the standard Project Operations approval process, helping teams capture field costs with less context switching and better financial traceability.
ID: 570856 Release: Dynamics 365 Field Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio Overview updates in Copilot Notebooks
We’re rolling out new capabilities for Copilot Notebook audio overview that make it easier to navigate longer content with topic-based episodes, new audio formats such as Critique and Debate, support enterprise information protection with sensitivity labels, and expand audio overview context to more content types.
ID: 570966 Release: Microsoft 365, OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Quality evaluation supports custom Case-like records evaluation
Quality evaluation now supports on-demand evaluations for case-like custom entities in public preview. Organizations can extend evaluation capabilities beyond the standard case entity to supported custom Dataverse entities that follow a case-like service workflow. This enables teams to evaluate additional business records using the quality evaluation framework, while giving admins flexibility to configure evaluation entry points for their custom scenarios.
ID: 571301 Release: Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2027
Microsoft Viva: Expanded agent coverage in Agent Dashboard
Customers can now view reporting for agents from third-party platforms in the Agent 365 Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics). This expanded coverage provides a more comprehensive view of agent activity across their organization.
ID: 573169 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduling with Copilot
Users can now schedule appointments and meetings directly from chat. Simply ask Copilot to create an appointment or schedule a meeting with colleagues, and it will find available times, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites—all within the chat experience.
ID: 573220 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Field Service: Modernize the mobile offline foundation
Business value Field service organizations often depend on mobile offline so technicians can keep working when connectivity is limited or unavailable. As offline profiles grow larger and apps include more related data, first sync, resource loading, and repeated sync work can affect technician productivity and confidence in the mobile experience. Power Apps mobile offline is being updated with a more native foundation for data access and sync orchestration. This foundation is intended to improve responsiveness, reduce repeated sync work, and better support complex Field Service Mobile apps that use larger offline profiles and richer related data. Feature detail This update modernizes the mobile offline foundation used by Power Apps mobile and Field Service Mobile. It includes native sync processing, improved handling of related rows during first sync, and optimizations for app resource and custom file loading. The updated foundation is designed to strengthen offline data access and sync orchestration while preserving the mobile offline app experience customers already use. Administrators and makers should continue to review offline profile design, table relationships, data volume, and file usage to align mobile offline configuration with field usage patterns.
ID: 573240 Release: Dynamics 365 Field Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Field Service: Enhance mobile offline up-sync
Business value Technicians often complete work in the field while connectivity is limited or intermittent. When offline changes still need to sync, users and back-office teams can be uncertain whether work details, status updates, and other field changes have reached business systems. Mobile offline up-sync is being enhanced so changes captured in the field can continue syncing more reliably. This helps frontline users gain confidence that completed work will be submitted without repeatedly checking the app or following up manually. Feature detail This update improves mobile offline up-sync for changes created while technicians work in Field Service Mobile. It includes support for background up-sync and user notifications when pending changes still need to sync. When changes remain pending, the mobile experience can help users understand that additional sync work is still required. The capability is intended to reduce uncertainty around offline changes and help field updates reach Dataverse more reliably as connectivity becomes available.
ID: 573241 Release: Dynamics 365 Field Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Field Service: Improve mobile offline reliability across network conditions
Business value Field service work often happens in environments where network quality changes throughout the day. Technicians may move between connected, low-connectivity, intermittent, and offline conditions while still needing the mobile app to remain dependable. Mobile offline is being improved to better detect and respond to changing network conditions. More adaptive sync behavior can help reduce disruptions, avoid unnecessary retries, and improve reliability when users move across different connectivity states. Feature detail This update improves how mobile offline detects and responds to weak, intermittent, or limited connectivity. Sync behavior will become more adaptive so the app can better determine when to sync, when to pause, and when to reduce unnecessary work. The capability is intended to help Field Service Mobile provide a more dependable offline experience in real-world field environments. It focuses on sync behavior and connectivity response, while administrators and makers remain responsible for designing offline profiles that match field usage, data volume, and business requirements.
ID: 573242 Release: Dynamics 365 Field Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2027
Microsoft Teams: Invite attendees to register
For an event that needs registration, send email invites to the selected people and groups who will be invited to register to the event
ID: 573250 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Cancel packing slips for stocked item requirements
This feature supports controlled returns and packing slip cancellations for stocked item requirements originating in Finance and Supply Chain Management. You can open the Packing slip journal from the Item requirements page and cancel packing slips for eligible independent item requirements. Packing slip posting performs the physical inventory update while deferring the financial update, allowing cancellation before invoicing or finalization. Cancellation reverses the project cost, returns the item requirement to open order, and creates negative material usage and sales transactions through dual-write. Negative quantities remain blocked when entered directly in Dataverse. This feature also enables the ability to create new item requirements for both positive consumption and negative return scenarios with product dimensions such as serial number to support returns or warranty scenarios. The feature is off by default. To enable it, in Feature management, enable Enable packing slip cancellation for integrated deployments. It requires Enable packing slip cancellation for item requirements and Enable stocked products usage for resource/non-stock scenarios features to also be enabled. To see the project cost posting, be sure to enable Post packing slip in ledger in Accounts receivable parameters to create the physical inventory voucher and display project cost. Fixed-price projects also require the feature Finalize uninvoiced stocked items before inventory can be financially finalized. Turning off the integrated cancellation feature restores the previous posting behavior and removes cancellation availability. This feature applies to the Project Operations connected with ERP deployment type.
ID: 573252 Release: Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Planner: Refreshed experience and new capabilities
Microsoft Planner will be updated with a cleaner, more modern interface, improved navigation, responsive layouts, and a more consistent experience across Planner in Teams and Planner for the web.
ID: 573274 Release: Planner – DoD Tags: November CY2026
Power Automate: Build and visualize desktop flows using Flowchart mode
Flowchart mode introduces a new visual authoring experience in Power Automate for desktop that allows makers to create, view, and edit desktop flows using a flowchart representation. Actions are displayed as connected nodes and execution paths are represented visually, making it easier to understand, build, and maintain complex automations that include conditions, loops, and branching logic. Makers can create new flows directly in Flowchart mode or switch existing flows between Sequence mode and Flowchart mode.
ID: 573292 Release: Power Automate – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in OneNote can create, edit, and refine content
Copilot in OneNote can generate new content and directly edit when in edit mode. In this mode you can create, rename, and delete pages, sections, or notebooks as well as add or edit content in pages. Copilot can bring content from across WorkIQ as well as complete actions across other workflows such as creating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
ID: 573446 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Permissions audit log improvements
Improving permission checks when users access the Microsoft Purview portal. Enhanced audit logs will provide clearer visibility into role and scoped-role access decisions, helping administrators troubleshoot access issues and monitor authorization outcomes.
ID: 573447 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Streaming switchboard for Network Device Interface (NDI) Sources
For Teams meetings and events, a new streaming switchboard will soon be available to easily manage and send NDI sources out to production software.
ID: 573453 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Event Chat now available for Events optimized for a large audience in GCC
All users in Events larger than 1,000 users or in any Event optimized for a large audience can now chat with one another in a public event chat in GCC.
ID: 573625 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: November CY2026
OneDrive: Presentation mode for PDFs in the iOS app on iPad
Microsoft OneDrive is introducing presentation mode in the OneDrive iOS app for users on iPad devices. Users select a new Presentation button in the PDF viewer to enter a focused, view-only experience that prevents free gesture scrolling between pages, reducing accidental page changes while presenting without moving the file to another app. The feature is not available on iPhone.
ID: 573697 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
SharePoint: Advanced Management – Inactive files policy
SharePoint administrators can use the Inactive files policy in SharePoint Advanced Management to automatically archive files based on when they were last accessed. The public preview is available through PowerShell only. Admins can set an inactivity threshold from 6 to 48 months, scope policies to all SharePoint sites or selected sites, include or exclude file types and sites, and use What-If mode to review impact before activation. Eligible files move to the Microsoft 365 Archive cold-storage tier while remaining in place and retaining their metadata, permissions, compliance, and searchability. Microsoft 365 Archive and pay-as-you-go billing must be enabled.
ID: 573699 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Graph API Support for Archive Mailboxes
Access to Archive mailboxes (Main + Auxiliary) through Microsoft Graph. The goal is to give users a single, seamless Archive view, even though Archive data may physically reside across multiple auxiliary mailboxes with EWS Graph APIs being deprecated.
ID: 573701 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Increase in expansion limit for auto-expanding archive beyond 1.5 TB
Previously, auto-expanding archive mailbox expansion was supported only up to 1.5 TB, after which mailboxes would become inoperative. Archive mailboxes can now automatically expand beyond the 1.5 TB limit, ensuring uninterrupted retention and enabling scalable archive growth as storage thresholds are reached. This capability to expand archives beyond 1.5 TB will be available to customers with eligible E5 licenses.
ID: 573702 Release: Microsoft Purview – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Procurement Agent – Customize the Procurement Agent supplier follow-up criteria
Organizations often use business-specific data and criteria to determine when suppliers require follow-up on purchase orders. The Procurement Agent will enable buyers to extend supplier follow-up criteria using related standard, extended, and custom table data. Buyers can add table joins and use fields from those tables as filter conditions, providing greater flexibility to determine which purchase order lines qualify for supplier follow-up based on their organization’s processes and data.
ID: 573704 Release: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Microsoft Teams: External presenter support for event group chat
Event group chat, the private chat for organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in an event or structured meeting, will support external presenters.
ID: 573706 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Track mileage expenses using kilometers
Organizations operating across different regions need to record mileage expenses using the units of measure appropriate for their employees and local requirements. Dynamics 365 Project Operations will support kilometers (km) as a configurable unit of measure for mileage expenses, in addition to miles. Organizations can configure the appropriate mileage unit for their business, helping employees record mileage expenses accurately using the measurement standard relevant to their regional requirements.
ID: 573707 Release: Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Review financial dimensions when approving expenses on mobile
Approvers need access to the financial information behind an expense to make accurate approval decisions without leaving the approval experience. Dynamics 365 expense management mobile app will surface relevant financial dimensions directly within expense report approvals in the mobile app. Approvers can review financial coding in context before making a decision, helping reduce unnecessary navigation and keep expense approvals moving.
ID: 573709 Release: Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
SharePoint: AI input widget and content preview in Copilot
With this new capability, users of Copilot in SharePoint will be able to view saved and unsaved preview content side by side with chat. Users will also be able to interact with created HTML forms and confirm responses to send to chat.
ID: 574106 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Android
When a Teams Rooms on Android device acts as an organizer, co-organizer, or presenter in a structured meeting or webinar, you have access to the private chat for event management known as the Event Group. You can also switch to a separate chat with attendees, enabling smooth event experiences for all. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
ID: 574107 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Events now support up to 20,000 registrations, making it easier to reach and engage larger audiences at scale
Connect with more attendees than ever before with Teams Events, now supporting up to 20,000 registrations for organizers with valid Attendee packs.
ID: 574110 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Outlook: Upcoming visual improvements and a more consistent Outlook experience
The first updates will focus on visual details, such as icons, spacing and alignment. Users of classic Outlook for Windows will begin seeing refinements to familiar mail and calendar surfaces. The initial visual updates are intended to improve clarity and consistency without changing how users perform their tasks.
ID: 574115 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Pro Management portal Analytics & Reports Design Refresh
We are refreshing the way we organize the Analytics & Reports area in the Pro Management portal to make it more user-friendly.
ID: 574362 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2026
Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook
Users can manually select text and ask Copilot to help provide relevant information.
ID: 508524 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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: October 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: October CY2026
Outlook: Choose to Show Unread or Total Count for Each Folder
You can now pick whether each folder in your folder pane shows the unread count or the total item count. Until now, Outlook only displayed unread counts, but sometimes you need to see how many items are in a folder overall. Just right-click any folder and choose whether to show the total or unread count. It gives you more control over how you keep track of your email without changing how anything else works. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 563807 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Granular channel notification controls
Microsoft Teams introduces flexible presets for channel notifications, allowing you to choose between All new messages, @mentions and replies, or Mute. You can further customize alerts for unfollowed threads, tags, and channel or team mentions, as well as control banner notifications for the channel. This added flexibility enables you to set notifications to match to your work style and reduce unnecessary distractions.
ID: 565132 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Protect sensitive data over FTP and SFTP with Endpoint DLP
Endpoint DLP support for FTP and SFTP enables organizations to monitor and protect sensitive data transferred from managed endpoints using FTP and SFTP, helping prevent unauthorized data exfiltration while maintaining visibility and control.
ID: 565868 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Teams: QR code protection in Teams messaging
Microsoft Teams will provide additional protection for QR codes shared by external users in messages. Images containing QR codes from external senders will be obscured by default and require users to reveal them before viewing or scanning. This helps reduce the risk of phishing and fraud by encouraging more deliberate interaction with QR code content.
ID: 570439 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Admins can control profanity filtering in meeting transcripts
Teams administrators will be able to use a meeting policy to control whether profane words are masked in live transcription and saved meeting transcripts. Filtering remains on by default. When an organizer is assigned a policy that turns filtering off, profane words can appear without masking in both the live and saved transcript, while live captions continue to follow each participant’s existing profanity setting.
ID: 570467 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2026
Outlook: Right-click to customize the classic ribbon
You can now customize the classic ribbon in New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web by right-clicking the ribbon and choosing which commands and groups appear on the Home and View tabs. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 570664 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Sales: Choose the data sources AI-powered Data Enrichment uses, including CRM notes
AI-powered Data Enrichment now lets admins choose which data sources the agent uses to enrich records. Outlook emails, Teams meetings, and the new CRM notes source each have their own control toggle, and the agent keeps running as long as at least one source is toggled on. Admins no longer need to connect every permission before they create the agent. With CRM notes, the agent extracts insights from manual notes added to supported records and uses them to enrich those records, with no tenant admin consent needed to use CRM notes. Only notes added by users with a Dynamics 365 Sales Premium license are used, and Dataverse search is needed only for emails and Teams meetings, since notes are already linked to their records. These control toggles are available automatically. Admins can turn each source on or off in the Agent behavior section of the Data Enrichment settings. Outlook emails and Teams meetings stay off until their permissions are connected, and connecting a permission never turns a source on by itself. For organizations already using the agent, CRM notes is off by default and a banner lets admins know it’s available. For new organizations, CRM notes is on by default.
ID: 574364 Release: Dynamics 365 Sales – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Import task – Public API support
Public APIs for the Import tasks capability enable customers and partners to programmatically import tasks from one project into another. Organizations can call these APIs from custom applications, integrations, or automated workflows instead of requiring a user to initiate each import manually. The APIs support repeatable project-creation and planning scenarios, such as populating new projects with tasks from templates or previously completed projects. Customers can incorporate task imports into their existing project provisioning and automation processes.
ID: 574365 Release: Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Apply default SharePoint library labels to data at rest
Enables auto-labeling of existing SharePoint files to match the default sensitivity label configured on their document library. This helps organizations close labeling gaps for data at rest and ensure consistent, secure-by-default protection across SharePoint libraries—without relying on manual user labeling.
ID: 559105 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced user profile in IRM alerts
We’re enhancing the User section within Insider Risk Management alerts to provide investigators with more contextual user profile and risk attributes directly within their workflow. With this update, analysts can now view key user details such as employee type, office location, start date, policy inclusion, priority user group status, and last working day—helping them build a more complete understanding of the user during investigations without navigating away from the alert experience. This feature will be available as part of the new alert workflow through the Alert Details panel. Additional user attributes will continue to be introduced over time, with pseudo-anonymization honored to support privacy-by-design investigation practices. 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: 564619 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Expanding note capabilities across alerts & cases
We’re introducing a new collaboration capability in Insider Risk Management that enables analysts and investigators to add notes directly within alerts. With this feature, users can document investigation progress, share findings, and capture key context throughout the triage process. In addition to manually added notes, system-generated notes will automatically record updates such as alert status changes or user assignments — helping teams maintain a clear and auditable investigation timeline. By centralizing investigation history directly within alerts, this update helps improve collaboration and ensures all stakeholders stay aligned throughout the investigation lifecycle. These note enhancements will also be made available in Cases. 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: 564620 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection – Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive
We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence.
ID: 567890 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Power Apps: Modern, refreshed look for the mail app
Extends the Fluent-based modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps to the mail app, providing consistent controls, spacing, colors, and visual treatment when users work in that app. This was previously enabled for the monthly channel with the 2602.1 release and is now being enabled for the semiannual channel with the 2609.3 release. Availability, Impacted products, All model-driven apps, Release channel, Semiannual, Version, 2609.3 build, Dependencies, Feature activation, Default on
ID: 571681 Release: Power Apps – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Quality evaluation – Recurring conversation evaluations
Quality Evaluation now supports recurring frequency for conversation evaluations. Previously, only event-based trigger evaluations were supported, meaning evaluations were created only when a conversation closed.
With recurring evaluations, users can run bulk evaluations over previously closed conversations, evaluate future closed conversations, and sample selected conversations that match configured conditions. This enables ongoing quality monitoring, retrospective analysis, and targeted evaluation programs without relying solely on conversation-close events.
ID: 573267 Release: Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Power Automate: Schedule desktop flows directly with Scheduled Triggers
Scheduled triggers enable makers to run desktop flows on a recurring schedule directly from the Power Automate automation center, eliminating the need to create and manage intermediary scheduled cloud flows. Users can configure daily, weekly, monthly, hourly, or custom recurrence patterns, select the execution machine or machine group, and monitor upcoming scheduled runs from a centralized experience. Scheduled Triggers simplify desktop automation management and provide a more intuitive scheduling experience for attended and unattended desktop flows.
ID: 573278 Release: Power Automate – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2026
Dynamics 365 Finance: Improved Matrix visual performance for large table
Business Performance Planning introduce Virtualization to optimizes how the Matrix visual renders large planning datasets. Rather than loading and displaying the entire dataset at once, the visual progressively renders the rows and columns needed as users scroll, expand, collapse, and navigate through the Matrix. This reduces the amount of data processed by the browser at any one time and helps maintain visual responsiveness at scale.
ID: 574119 Release: Dynamics 365 Finance – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Introducing a new feature that brings interactive agents into your Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero state prompts and history support for seamless interactions. Currently, only agents built on Copilot support sessions, meaning they can remember the context of previous interactions within the same session for more relevant responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support. All agents from BizChat/Copilot Studio are now available for use in your meetings and calls. This feature allows secure testing and iteration, inviting colleagues for feedback without affecting sensitive data or production channels. Updated August 17, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 490564 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Proactive push notifications for the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
The Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app will proactively send push notifications for common productivity workflows like ‘Your Day at a Glance’ and ‘Items waiting for you’, which send users to the respective Copilot response when opened. This feature taps into your Copilot Memory and will be available for users with Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and can also be accessed once opening the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Updated August 26, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 560339 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Work Search Banner for Google
When a user performs a search on google.com from a work profile, Microsoft Edge can detect whether organization-specific results are available for that query. When relevant results are found, a banner is shown with a link to explore those work results with Microsoft 365 Copilot. This builds on the existing experience already available on Bing and extends it to Google, helping users seamlessly access work-related information regardless of their search engine. Admins can control access to this feature using the EdgeWorkSearchBannerEnabled policy. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 560823 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on Microsoft Copilot and AI Apps interactions for better Data Security and Compliance posture
Provide insights on Copilots and AI Apps usage and recommend retention policies for customers to govern their Copilots and AI App interactions. Updated September 15, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 561209 Release: Microsoft Purview – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage prospects faster with Sales Agent-enriched leads
To reach their sales goals, sales teams need to constantly generate enough pipeline. They need to decide which inbound leads to engage. This decision takes a lot of time because sellers must sift through large amounts of data across tools and data sources. This data includes information from internal systems like their CRM and external resources like the web and third-party data services. Sales Agent handles the work of reviewing every available data source to create a comprehensive summary for each lead. As a seller, you can quickly decide whether to engage with a prospect or pass on them. Sales Agent reviews every lead in your queue and gathers information. It synthesizes insights that are specific to your business. At a glance, you can see if a lead is worth reaching out to and what they’re interested in. Use this information to personalize your engagement with the prospect. With Sales Agent, you spend less time and get higher response rates, leading to a larger, more qualified pipeline. UPDATE: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 567000 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add custom insights to record summaries in Sales agent
Sales agent gives you strong CRM-based account and opportunity summaries, but important context is often spread across non-CRM systems. With this capability, you can add insights from any application to enrich account and opportunity summaries in Sales agent, so sellers get a unified view of their accounts and deals in one place without switching applications. UPDATE: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 567002 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2027
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enrich Sales agent meeting prep with more data sources
Walking into a customer meeting with incomplete context can mean missed risks, overlooked issues, and conversations that fall flat. With access to richer data, like service tickets, directly in your meeting prep, you can spot open issues and opportunities before the conversation starts. This insight helps you engage more meaningfully, build stronger relationships, and drive better sales outcomes. UPDATE: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 567003 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2027
Microsoft 365: [Education] Control access to Learning Activities and Teach
IT administrators can manage access to Learning Activities and Teach from the Microsoft 365 admin center. Configure Learning Activities separately for educators and for students ages 13 and older and enable or disable Teach for educators to align AI experiences with your organization’s policies and deployment readiness. This roadmap item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the Public Roadmap, we apologize for the inconvenience. #Education
ID: 568370 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026