Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal is enhancing policy conditions to detect external communications and allow combining multiple conditions with an OR capability. Testing conditions before implementation is also introduced.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new policy conditions and test them with sample messages to ensure they meet your compliance requirements.
Ask Copilot about an image in Edge enables users to instantly analyze images from the web by sending them directly to Copilot from the Edge context menu, making it easy to ask questions, gain insights, and understand visual content without leaving their browsing experience. Admins can control availa
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Microsoft Edge adds a feature allowing users to ask Copilot about images directly from the context menu, with admin control via policies.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new Edge policies to understand how to control the availability of this feature in your environment.
Possibly affects: Edge · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Teams admins can access utilization analytics for Teams bookable desks on Teams Pro Management portal, similar to analytics provided for meeting rooms on the portal today. For utilization analytics to be enabled, a desk needs to have one or more peripheral device associated, and the desk needs to be
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Microsoft Teams Pro Management portal now includes analytics for desk utilization, similar to meeting room analytics. Desks need to be associated with a peripheral device and licensed with specific Teams licenses to enable this feature.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the licensing requirements for desk utilization analytics and ensure desks are properly configured.
Possibly affects: Teams · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Some existing retention policies scoped to Microsoft Teams may currently also apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions. As part of an upcoming change, these legacy Teams retention policies will be converted to—and treated as—Teams-only policies. They will no longer implicitly govern Copilot workl
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Legacy Teams retention policies will be converted to Teams-only policies and will no longer apply to Copilot interactions.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review existing retention policies to ensure they are correctly scoped for Teams and Copilot.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Business value Technicians do not always record booking completion at the moment work ends. They may update the booking later because of connectivity, customer-facing responsibilities, or end-of-day administration. When the later administrative action replaces the booking End Time, the recorded dura
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Dynamics 365 Field Service now allows administrators to control whether the booking End Time is automatically updated when a booking is completed later, preserving the actual work duration.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the organization-level setting for 'Set End Time on booked resource completion' in Field Service settings to ensure it aligns with your workflow.
Possibly affects: Dynamics 365 · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Service representatives can reroute a live voice or messaging conversation when they realize they aren't the right person to help. The representative updates the conversation details, or the details of a linked case, contact, or account, and then selects Reroute. The conversation goes back through c
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Dynamics 365 Contact Center introduces an automatic rerouting feature that sends conversations to the correct queue based on updated conversation details, without requiring agents to manually choose a queue.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new Reroute feature to determine if it should be enabled for your contact center to improve routing accuracy.
Possibly affects: Dynamics 365 · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Bullseye routing with user groups enables a tiered assignment strategy that automatically expands the pool of eligible representatives as conversation wait time increases. Rather than assigning from a fixed pool or waiting for overflow rules to trigger, this approach progressively widens availabilit
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Dynamics 365 Contact Center introduces bullseye routing with user groups, allowing administrators to configure tiered assignment strategies based on wait times.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new bullseye routing configuration options to optimize conversation handling.
Possibly affects: Dynamics 365 · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
OneDrive desktop sync users now get clearer, more actionable guidance when file paths exceed the supported 520-character limit. The updated experience shows exactly how many characters a path is over the limit and offers a guided flow to rename or move the affected items so they can sync. GA date: J
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OneDrive for desktop now provides clearer guidance when file paths exceed the 520-character limit, helping users rename or move files to resolve sync issues.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new OneDrive sync experience to understand how to guide users through the process of renaming or moving files.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
OneDrive is adding administrative controls for the Photos experience on Windows. Organizations can manage whether users sign in with personal Microsoft accounts. These controls help IT teams align OneDrive Photos with their access, data governance, and device-management requirements. GA date: August
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Administrative controls for OneDrive Photos on Windows are being added, allowing IT teams to manage user sign-in with personal Microsoft accounts.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new administrative controls to ensure they meet your organization's access and data governance requirements.
Possibly affects: OneDrive, Windows · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Outlook for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview sensitivity label inheritance from attachments. When users attach files with sensitivity labels, Outlook can automatically apply or recommend an email sensitivity label based on organizational policy settings. This helps organizations mainta
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Outlook for iOS and Android will support inheriting sensitivity labels from email attachments, helping maintain consistent data classification.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new feature to ensure it aligns with your organization's data classification policies.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
When composing an email in Outlook for Mac, Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels can be automatically applied or recommended based on the sensitivity labels of attached files. This helps users consistently protect sensitive information, reduces manual labeling effort, and supports organizational com
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Outlook for Mac will automatically apply or recommend Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels based on attached files, enhancing email protection and compliance.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new email labeling process to ensure it aligns with your organization's compliance requirements.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for calendar events. Organizations can detect and help prevent the sharing of sensitive information in meeting subjects, descriptions, and invite content through policy tips, user remediation, and policy enforcement.
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Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies for calendar events, providing compliance protection for sensitive information sharing.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review and configure Purview DLP policies for calendar events in Outlook for Mac to ensure compliance.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Outlook for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) wait-on-send policies. Organizations can require a DLP evaluation before an email is sent and configure how long users must wait for policy evaluation to complete. This helps ensure sensitive information is inspect
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Outlook mobile apps for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, allowing administrators to control the user experience during policy evaluation.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new DLP settings to ensure they align with your organization's policies and user needs.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) wait-on-send policies. Organizations can require a DLP evaluation before an email is sent and configure how long users must wait for policy evaluation to complete. This helps ensure sensitive information is inspected against o
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Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, allowing administrators to control the user experience and ensure sensitive information is inspected before emails are sent.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new DLP settings in Outlook for Mac to ensure they align with your organization's policies.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
The SharePoint FAQ web part will provide a standard, non-AI experience for manually creating, editing, and managing FAQs. The AI-assisted FAQ creation and import will move to the Copilot in SharePoint authoring experience, where authors can use natural-language prompts and selected grounding sources
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SharePoint FAQ web part will change to a non-AI experience, with AI-assisted creation moving to Copilot.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the updated authoring experience for the FAQ web part to ensure it meets your needs.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office, SharePoint · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Microsoft Teams will introduce near-real-time detection of malicious QR codes shared in messages. By analyzing destinations embedded in QR codes, Teams can identify potential phishing and fraud threats and apply additional protections to malicious content, extending existing URL protection to QR-bas
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Microsoft Teams will add real-time detection of malicious QR codes in messages, enhancing URL protection against phishing and fraud.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new Teams settings to ensure they align with your organization's security policies.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office, Teams · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Associate channels with a tag so members are automatically added to those channels when they join the tag. This helps teams keep channel membership in sync with evolving groups, reduces manual management, and ensures members have access to the conversations and content most relevant to their role. G
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Microsoft Teams will automatically add members to channels associated with specific tags when they join the tag, keeping channel membership up-to-date and reducing manual management.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new workflow to ensure it aligns with your team's communication needs and update your channel management processes accordingly.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office, Teams · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Users will be able to translate full PDF documents directly within the native PDF viewer in Microsoft Edge. The translated document opens in a new tab, making it easier to access content in their preferred language. Admins can control availability to this feature using the TranslateEnabled policy. G
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Microsoft Edge will allow users to translate PDF documents into their preferred language, with admin control via the TranslateEnabled policy. General Availability is in January 2027.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review and configure the TranslateEnabled policy as needed.
Possibly affects: Edge · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
A new agentic debug run feature will be available in the flow designer. The UI automation repair interface launches while the flow is running, validating each selector used in the flow. It then proposes a new selector in case an existing one does not work as expected, after the user captures the res
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Power Automate will introduce a new feature that automatically repairs UI automation selectors during flow execution, suggesting new selectors if the existing ones fail.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new Power Automate feature to understand how it can improve flow reliability and maintenance.
Rewrite by Copilot in Edge, which lets users edit typed text for tone, format, and length within an open page in Microsoft Edge, is being updated to include enterprise data protection for commercial customers. Once Rewrite is available, users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID will have enterprise
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Microsoft Edge's Rewrite by Copilot feature is being updated to include enterprise data protection for commercial customers, but the release has been paused temporarily.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the updated feature and its implications for your organization's data protection policies.
Possibly affects: Edge · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retentio
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Microsoft Purview introduces a hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows, allowing compliance admins to manage data more effectively.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new hard delete feature to understand how it can be used to comply with changing legal and compliance requirements.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
This enables users to export Identifiable row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis. This capability can be tuned On by Admins in a tenant. GA date: November CY2026
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Admins can enable the export of identifiable row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and analysis.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review and enable the export feature in your tenant if needed.
Possibly affects: Microsoft 365 / Office · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Admins can now choose whether the organizer name will show up in the Calendar View on Teams panels. Admins can toggle the "Show organizer name" setting ON or OFF in the Pro Management portal or on the panel device. Based on the selection, the organizer name will or will not be shown in the calendar
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Admins can now control whether the organizer name appears in the Calendar View on Teams panels. This setting can be configured in the Pro Management portal or on the panel device.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new setting in the Pro Management portal to ensure it aligns with your organization's needs.
Possibly affects: Teams, Teams Rooms · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
Trade Counter POS is a collection of capabilities for Dynamics 365 Commerce Point of Sale. Businesses can adopt the capabilities individually to support their trade counter operations rather than enable a single, all-or-nothing experience. Counter associates can find customers, organizations, and pr
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Dynamics 365 Commerce introduces support for trade counter sales in POS, allowing businesses to enable specific capabilities for trade counter operations.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new capabilities and enable the required features for trade counter operations.
Possibly affects: Dynamics 365 · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below
This feature extends Task Grid View Templates so administrators can configure both task columns and the visibility of supported task-grid actions in one place. Administrators can show or hide individual actions across task-grid views, the toolbar, row-level controls, and the task context menu. Confi
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Administrators can now configure actions on the task grid in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, allowing them to control which actions are visible in various views and controls.
AI-suggested action (not a Microsoft requirement): Review the new configuration options to ensure they align with your organization's workflow needs.
Possibly affects: Dynamics 365 · generated by qwen2.5:7b; verify against the source below