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Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys: Elevate customer experiences - Automatically update emails with the latest content

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights introduces dynamic content blocks that automatically update emails with the latest content, reducing manual updates and ensuring consistent messaging.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

By automatically updating emails with latest content, you can: Easily create dynamic content blocks in Content gallery with new content or select existing content in email and save it as a dynamic content block. Have content only so it uses the layout of the email when inserted or have content with its layout preserved. You can mark the content block as “protected” to prevent content from being modified in the email. Allow personalized content (for example, dynamic text or conditional content). Easily see which emails will be updated when you update such content blocks. Dynamic content blocks …

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Power Pages: Design studio - Configure authentication with security agent

The security agent is now available within the Power Pages design studio, allowing makers to configure authentication and authorization settings using natural language commands. This feature is enabled for admins/makers/marketers automatically.

Security · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

The security agent is available directly within the security workspace in Power Pages design studio. Makers can open the security agent tab to access the embedded chat panel and security tools. From there, they can interact using natural language to review risks, understand configurations, and take guided actions. The agent assists with both authentication and authorization setup. It guides makers through configuring identity providers, reviewing authentication settings, and strengthening login protections. Based on the site’s setup, it can recommend improvements such as securing token configu…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Power Pages, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Field Service: Optimize resource scheduling - Optimize schedules with Scheduling Operations Agent

Dynamics 365 Field Service introduces the Scheduling Operations Agent, allowing dispatchers to optimize schedules using Copilot, which can automatically adjust based on business goals like maximizing technician usage or work order priority.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Dispatchers often spend considerable time and energy reviewing and adjusting each technician's schedule as conditions change throughout the workday: A technician has one or more cancellations in the afternoon. To fill the open slots, what requirements optimally keep promise windows, prefer high-priority work, and locate work around the same neighborhoods that the technician is due to travel to? A technician is running over the planned time for the current booking. As a result, they're late for the next booking, and the delay might cascade to subsequent bookings. How do you best adjust the book…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Field Service, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Administrator experiences - Use Service Operations Agent to accelerate setup, onboard, and verify config changes

Dynamics 365 Contact Center introduces Service Operations Agent, a new AI-powered assistant that simplifies configuration, onboarding, and validation of changes.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Service Operations Agent in the Copilot Service admin center delivers a unified, conversational experience for configuring Dynamics 365 Contact Center. Administrators use conversational setup and orchestration in Service Operations Agent to streamline setup tasks—configure channels, voice settings, Teams Phone extensibility, and knowledge sources. Through the same single guided assistant, administrators also set up route-to-queue rules and assignment strategies for queues and AI agents—automating and optimizing queue management and agent assignments to drive operational efficiency. With Servic…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys: Turbocharge your pipeline to drive growth - Transform customer journeys into action with record creation

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights introduces a new feature that allows users to create records and activities directly within journey builder, streamlining automation and reducing the need for complex workflows.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This feature gives you a single, flexible way to create downstream records and activities directly inside the journey builder. Create records or activities from a single tile, including tasks, phone calls, leads, opportunities, or custom entity records. Use required and optional fields, including custom attributes, to match your exact process requirements. Add dynamic content to any field, using real‑time attributes from contacts or leads. Eliminate the need for complex workflows or custom code, making automation more accessible and easier to maintain. This feature currently works when orchest…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Power Automate: Cloud flows - View property value expanded inline in new cloud flow designer

The new cloud flow designer in Power Automate will allow admins/makers/marketers to view property values inline, making it easier to compare values across multiple steps.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

When you add an action, you can view property values for multiple steps at design time, or output values for multiple steps at runtime. The inline view shows this information directly on the cards, so you can review and compare values across several steps at once. Without the inline view, you select each card individually to see its value in the side pane, and you can view only one step's value at a time. This makes it harder to compare values across steps. You can choose which experience you prefer. The current side pane experience remains the default. You can switch to the inline view whenev…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Power Automate, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Workforce engagement management - Automate shift rotations for consistent workforce coverage

Dynamics 365 Contact Center introduces shift rotation policies to automate the distribution of customer service representatives across shifts, reducing manual reassignment efforts.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

What the feature does Shift rotation policies help organizations distribute customer service representatives across recurring shifts on a configurable schedule. Supervisors can create rotation policies that define how representatives move between time slots over time and apply those policies to shift plans. Supervisors create policies by specifying a start date, time zone, rotation cadence, and a set of recurring time slots. Representatives are assigned to each time slot, and the scheduler automatically applies the rotation pattern when generating future schedules. This reduces the need for ma…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Unified routing - Orchestrate conversation distribution with natural language playbooks

Dynamics 365 Contact Center introduces conversation orchestration with natural language playbooks to dynamically manage conversation priorities and handle overflow conditions, enhancing customer service efficiency.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Conversation orchestration in Dynamics 365 Contact Center keeps every conversation actively managed throughout its lifecycle, from initiation through resolution. Instead of applying fixed rules at different stages of a conversation journey, conversation orchestration monitors each conversation as conditions evolve, like wait time increases, fast-filling queues, or service representatives going offline, and responds automatically with the right action. For example, administrators can define the intent using natural-language playbooks as follows: "If a premium customer waits for more than three …

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Workforce engagement management - Automatically generate evaluation summary from final results

Dynamics 365 Customer Service will automatically regenerate evaluation summaries after updates to reflect final outcomes, ensuring accurate reporting. Administrators can control this behavior through a configuration setting.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This feature ensures that evaluation summaries and recommended actions always reflect the final, validated evaluation outcomes. When a reviewer or supervisor updates evaluation answers, either to correct AI misinterpretations or refine manual assessments, the system automatically regenerates the evaluation summary upon submission. This ensures that insights remain aligned with the finalized evaluation. If no changes are made, summary regeneration is skipped to optimize performance and cost. Administrators can control this behavior through a Customer Service admin center configuration setting. …

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Workforce engagement management - Enable question-level weighting for quality evaluation scoring

Admins can enable question-level weighting for quality evaluation scoring in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, allowing supervisors to assign custom weights to individual questions.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This feature enables supervisors to assign percentage-based weights at the individual question level, ensuring that evaluation scores reflect the relative importance of each question within a section. When scoring and question-level weight is enabled for an evaluation criterion, users can assign explicit weight percentages to each question. These weights directly influence score calculation, allowing higher-priority questions to have a greater impact on the final evaluation outcome. The system validates that the total weight of all questions within a section matches the section weight, ensurin…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Finance: Core financials - Automatic clearing of centralized bridged vendor payments during bank reconciliation

Dynamics 365 Finance will automatically clear bridge transactions during bank reconciliation, improving accuracy and efficiency.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This enhancement enables automatic clearing of bridge transactions generated by centralized vendor payments when bank statements are matched with records in Dynamics 365 Finance during the bank reconciliation process. The system posts the required clearing journals in the centralized legal entity, ensuring that general ledger balances are updated accurately. Business Value: Automatic clearing of centralized vendor payments streamlines the bank reconciliation process by eliminating manual clearing of bridge transactions, reducing reconciliation errors and ensuring general ledger balances are ac…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Finance, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Finance: Core financials - Automatic clearing of centralized bridged vendor payments during bank reconciliation

Dynamics 365 Finance will automatically clear bridge transactions during bank reconciliation, improving accuracy and efficiency.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This enhancement enables automatic clearing of bridge transactions generated by centralized vendor payments when bank statements are matched with records in Dynamics 365 Finance during the bank reconciliation process. The system posts the required clearing journals in the centralized legal entity, ensuring that general ledger balances are updated accurately. Business Value: Automatic clearing of centralized vendor payments streamlines the bank reconciliation process by eliminating manual clearing of bridge transactions, reducing reconciliation errors and ensuring general ledger balances are ac…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Dynamics 365 Finance, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Workforce engagement management - Enable evaluation retries and improve error handling

Dynamics 365 Contact Center now provides detailed error insights and retry functionality for failed AI evaluations, improving troubleshooting and management for supervisors.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Key features include: Added detailed error insights for failed AI evaluations, enabling supervisors and administrators to understand failure causes and take appropriate corrective actions. Improved bulk evaluation monitoring by introducing a Records Failed indicator in run history and displaying error details for failed records within evaluation runs. Enabled supervisors to retry failed evaluations directly from both the evaluation grid and bulk evaluation run lists. Business Value: This feature improves troubleshooting by providing supervisors with clear, actionable error messages that explai…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Optimize Project Operations - Improve contract management usability

Dynamics 365 Project Operations introduces an enhanced contract management experience with a modernized user interface, reduced clicks, and improved financial clarity, available to end users from September 2027.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

The enhanced Project Contract experience streamlines how you create, manage, and monitor contracts by significantly reducing the number of clicks and interactions required. This update transforms the contract into a central, intuitive workspace where all contract-related information is easier to access, understand, and act upon. The redesigned layout provides a clearer overview of contract status, financials, and performance, helping users work faster and with greater confidence. Core capabilities: Modernized user experience: Aligns with improvements delivered in the Modern Quote feature and r…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars

Organizers and presenters in Microsoft Teams can now have a private chat with each other during structured meetings and webinars, separate from attendee chats.

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. GA date: October CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Automatic data preservation for high-risk users

Microsoft Purview Adaptive Protection will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level, starting with a preview in June 2024.

Security · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level. GA date: December CY2026 Preview date: June CY2024

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements

Microsoft Purview compliance portal is enhancing alerting and customization features for Communication Compliance. These improvements will be generally available in January 2027 and previewed in July 2025.

Security · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. GA date: January CY2027 Preview date: July CY2025

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
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Microsoft Teams: Standard and Basic licensed Teams rooms on Windows in the Pro Management portal

The Teams Rooms Pro Management portal now enforces Standard and Basic licenses for Teams Rooms on Windows devices, providing unified management through the portal.

What you should do

Review and ensure that all Teams Rooms on Windows devices have appropriate licenses assigned through the Pro Management portal. AI-suggested

Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.

Windows · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

The Teams Rooms Pro Management portal now supports and enforces licenses for devices in Teams Rooms on Windows with a Standard or Basic license. IT admins get a unified device management experience through the Pro Management portal where they can manage those devices with the same functionality found in Teams admin center for that license type. GA date: May CY2025

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams, Teams Rooms
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Microsoft Teams, Teams and Surface Devices
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams, Teams Rooms · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Teams: Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for GCC-H and DoD environments

Microsoft Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection are now available in GCC-H and DoD environments, enhancing meeting hosting and device management.

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Shared display mode in Teams is now available in government CCC-H and DoD environments, enabling more seamless and private meeting hosting from your PC. Additionally, peripheral detection for bring-your-own-device spaces is available for inventory management and reporting through the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. GA date: March CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams, Teams Rooms
Tags
Launched, General Availability, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams, Teams Rooms · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation

Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint now allows referencing emails with Work IQ when creating presentations.

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

You can now reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation. GA date: March CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management- Azure PST Import

Azure PST Import allows PST files stored in Azure Blob Storage to be imported into Exchange Online mailboxes, following a two-step process.

Azure · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Azure PST Import is a migration method that enables PST files stored in Azure Blob Storage to be imported directly into Exchange Online mailboxes. It follows the standard two‑step Exchange Migration Service pattern: an initial analysis phase to validate and assess PST data, followed by execution of the actual migration. The process also involves creating a migration endpoint, running an analysis-only migration batch, using the analysis results to configure the final batch, and then starting the batch to import PST content into target mailboxes. GA date: January CY2027 Preview date: October CY2…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Exchange Online
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Exchange Online · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Copilot in PowerPoint now allows referencing files from SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when using Agent Mode.

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

You can now reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint. GA date: June CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps, OneDrive, SharePoint
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Desktop
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Azure PST Import

Azure PST Import allows PST files stored in Azure Blob Storage to be imported into Exchange Online mailboxes, following a two-step process.

Azure · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Azure PST Import is a migration method that enables PST files stored in Azure Blob Storage to be imported directly into Exchange Online mailboxes. It follows the standard two‑step Exchange Migration Service pattern: an initial analysis phase to validate and assess PST data, followed by execution of the actual migration. The process also involves creating a migration endpoint, running an analysis-only migration batch, using the analysis results to configure the final batch, and then starting the batch to import PST content into target mailboxes. GA date: March CY2027

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Exchange Online
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Azure, Exchange Online · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Adaptive Protection integration with Data Lifecycle Management

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview will integrate with Data Lifecycle Management to automatically apply retention labels based on user risk levels, effective February CY2027.

Security · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level. GA date: February CY2027

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Teams: Updated header and dashboard for chats and channels on mobile

Microsoft Teams has updated the header and dashboard on mobile to provide a more intuitive experience, bringing key channel details, people, and pinned content into one place.

Microsoft 365 / Office · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

You can now get oriented and take action faster when using Teams on mobile, with a redesigned header and lightweight dashboard that brings key channel details, people, and pinned content into one intuitive place. It creates a more predictable, familiar experience across desktop and mobile so you can move faster with less friction. GA date: October CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Android, iOS
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams · verify against the original