Outlook mobile apps for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, allowing administrators to control when emails are sent after DLP evaluation.
What you should do
Review and configure DLP policies for mobile users to ensure compliance and manage user experience. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
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 inspected against organizational policies before messages leave the organization while providing administrators with flexible control over the user experience. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Outlook, Android, iOS
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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.
What you should do
Review and configure DLP policies for Outlook for Mac to ensure compliance and user experience. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
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 organizational policies before messages leave the organization while providing administrators with flexible control over the user experience. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Outlook, Mac
AI analysis
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Copilot Chat will be available in Microsoft Teams for chats, channels, calls, and meetings in GCC, GCC High, and DoD environments starting in October 2026.
Copilot Chat will soon be available across chats, channels, calls, and meetings, helping users stay informed and catch up quickly. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web
AI analysis
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The SharePoint FAQ web part will switch to a standard manual authoring experience, while AI-assisted creation will move to the Copilot. Existing content will remain unchanged.
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 to generate FAQ content that is saved to the compatible FAQ web part. Existing FAQ web parts and their content will continue to render without migration. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, SharePoint, Web
AI analysis
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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-based attacks. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web
AI analysis
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Microsoft Teams will automatically add members to channels associated with specific tags when they join those tags, keeping channel membership up-to-date and reducing manual management.
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. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Android, Desktop, Mac, Web
AI analysis
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Microsoft Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics are being introduced to the Microsoft 365 DoD environment, offering privacy-protected analytics to help organizations understand Copilot usage and employee collaboration.
Microsoft Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics are coming to the Microsoft 365 Department of Defense (DoD) environment, providing eligible organizations with privacy-protected, role-based analytics experiences to help them understand Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, usage, and impact. Viva Insights also provides data-driven behavioral insights into how employees collaborate, helping organizations improve productivity and wellbeing within the DoD environment. GA date: January CY2027
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, DoD, Microsoft Viva, Web
AI analysis
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The Chat experience in the Copilot app will suggest a better-fit mode based on the user's prompt, if applicable. For example, it will suggest Cowork or other supported modes as they become available. Users will see a suggestion card after they send a prompt in Chat, with an explanation of the better-fit mode and an option for the user to switch to the suggested mode. Their chat conversation will be attached to the prompt in the new mode to maintain context. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web
AI analysis
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Compare commits with your working tree, resolve merge conflicts in bulk, and keep coding with refreshed Copilot chat, Hot Exit, keyboard tab controls, and Fonts and Colors. The post Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.
Type
Announcements
Tags
Visual Studio Blog, Visual Studio, Git, GitHub Copilot, Productivity
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New research across more than 200 enterprises looks at how shared knowledge can help companies coordinate their agents—and turn lessons from their work into an operational edge. The post The AI advantage your company can keep appeared first on Microsoft Copilot Blog.
Type
Announcements
Tags
Microsoft 365 Blog
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft 365 introduces structured document generation with forms, allowing organizations to create and manage standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance.
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 organizat…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Entra ID, SharePoint
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Desktop, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office, SharePoint · verify against the original
Microsoft Purview introduces a hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows, allowing compliance admins to bypass retention policies and eDiscovery holds.
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 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Prior…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
OneDrive, SharePoint
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
The Files companion app, part of the Microsoft 365 companion apps suite on the Windows taskbar, now surfaces AI-powered Copilot file prompts for Copilot Chat users. Previously available only to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensees, this update extends contextual file prompts to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users, enabling them to discover and interact with relevant files through intelligent suggestions. Users can find their most relevant files faster and take action on them directly from the Files app. Update: This roadmap item is no longer accurate and will be removed from the roadmap. We apologize …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Cancelled, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft 365, Desktop
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
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
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
AI analysis
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We are introducing a new feature for leaders and analysts of Viva Insights, where they can view a Power BI report, and edit time range, filters, attributes and change visuals as per their organizations' needs. They can then save the report for viewing later. GA date: September CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
You can now create a rule that automatically replies to incoming messages with a template you've set up. Set the conditions you care about and pick the template, and Outlook handles the response for you. It's a simple way to send consistent replies without typing the same thing over and over. #newoutlookforwindows GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Web
AI analysis
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Microsoft 365 Copilot now allows users to share chat sessions and individual responses through a link, making it easier to collaborate and share context within teams.
Session and Response Sharing let Microsoft 365 Copilot users share Copilot chat content through a link. Session Sharing shares a full chat session, while Response Sharing shares a single Copilot response. The shared content opens as a read-only view, and recipients can continue from it in their own Copilot chat. This gives Copilot users an easier and more controlled way to share useful Copilot outputs with coworkers instead of copying and pasting. It helps teams reuse work, share context, and collaborate more efficiently while keeping sharing within organizational controls. GA date: August CY2…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Android, Desktop, Mac, Teams and Surface Devices, Web
AI analysis
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Capacity view shows a timeline of who's working on what, so you can see how work is distributed across your team and spot overload or open capacity at a glance. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Planner, Desktop, Web
AI analysis
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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 view on the panel device. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Space licenses. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams, Teams Rooms
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Android, Teams and Surface Devices
AI analysis
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Conditional Coloring highlight tasks based on selected criteria, making priorities, status, and important task details easier to spot. GA date: September CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Planner, Teams and Surface Devices, Web
AI analysis
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Task History in Planner provides a view of recent changes to tasks, helping teams track progress over time. It is generally available as of October 2026.
Task History helps keep teams up to date on changes made to a task. View recent activity to see what changed, when it changed, and track progress over time. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Planner, Teams and Surface Devices, Web
AI analysis
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Microsoft Teams is expanding Markdown support in the compose box, giving you more ways to structure and format messages using familiar Markdown syntax. Create richer, more readable messages while staying in the Markdown authoring experience. GA date: December CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac, Web
AI analysis
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PowerPoint now displays a clear 'Viewing Only' message when opening a presentation without edit permissions, explaining the restrictions and providing contact information for the owner.
When you open a presentation you don't have permission to edit, PowerPoint now shows a clear "Viewing Only" message bar. It explains that the file is view-only, shows who created it, and tells you to contact the owner if you need more access. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), PowerPoint, Desktop, Mac
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Microsoft Copilot for SharePoint Site Builder is available in preview and will be generally available in December 2026, allowing users to create new SharePoint sites with guided assistance.
This feature enables users to easily create new SharePoint sites with Copilot. Users can review and confirm a clear site plan before Copilot builds the site. GA date: December CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office, SharePoint · verify against the original