PowerPoint now allows setting slide size from a modern task pane, with common and social media presets, and customization options. Available in preview from October 2026, generally available in November 2026.
Change slide size in PowerPoint from a modern task pane that keeps you in the flow of editing with real-time slide changes. Choose common slide sizes including new social media presets, or customize dimensions with a cleaner, more approachable experience. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), PowerPoint, Desktop
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Change slide size in PowerPoint from a modern task pane that keeps you in the flow of editing with real-time slide changes. Choose common slide sizes including new social media presets, or customize dimensions with a cleaner, more approachable experience. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), PowerPoint, Mac
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Enable active Microsoft Entra users without Dataverse or Power Apps licenses as activity recipients. Created user records remain disabled and do not grant Dynamics 365 app access. Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/add-unlicensed-users-activities More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/add-unlicensed-users-activities GA date: January CY2027 Preview date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Entra ID
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft 365 app, Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Microsoft Dataverse, Web
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Dynamics 365 Business Central introduces a new feature called Shopify Tax Matching, which helps reduce repetitive tax setup when importing orders from Shopify that contain multiple US tax jurisdictions.
Business Value Reduce repetitive tax setup when you import Shopify orders that contain multiple United States tax jurisdictions. Shopify Tax Matching suggests how free-text tax lines map to configured tax jurisdictions and keeps you in control of exceptions before you create sales documents. Details The Shopify Tax Matching capability is available in public preview for organizations in the United States that use the Shopify connector. When standard tax-area mapping doesn't resolve an imported order, the capability uses AI to suggest tax jurisdictions based on Shopify tax-line titles and rates,…
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M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Business Central, Web
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Zero-effort task completion enables project managers and team members to mark tasks as complete even when no effort was planned or recorded. This capability supports milestones, administrative activities, checklists, and other tasks that track completion without requiring work hours. This is for both Project Operations core and Project Operations connected with ERP deployment types. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Web
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Update Repair helps admins identify Windows devices with Microsoft 365 Apps that are out of date or experiencing update issues. In the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, admins can review device status and recommended actions, remotely start Online Repair for eligible devices, and follow manual remediation guidance for devices that need attention. Repair reinstalls Microsoft 365 Apps using the latest available build for the device’s configured update channel. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026
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M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Desktop, Web
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Microsoft Viva introduces an enhanced Copilot experience in Viva Engage, allowing deeper analysis and synthesis of conversations, and better integration with Microsoft 365 tools.
Introducing the Enhanced Microsoft 365 Copilot Experience in Viva Engage! Powered by Engage MCP, this enhanced experience takes Copilot in Engage beyond catch-ups and summaries, helping users explore conversations more deeply, synthesize discussions, and uncover meaningful insights. It's also more deeply connected across Microsoft 365. For example, you can ask Copilot to analyze feedback on a leader's post, identify key themes, and turn those insights into a reusable PowerPoint deck. With Work IQ integration, Copilot also has a better understanding of you and your work context, connecting conv…
Type
M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Desktop, Web
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Microsoft discusses designing a flexible sovereign architecture for AI workloads, allowing organizations to place workloads in appropriate environments and apply necessary controls.
A flexible sovereign architecture allows organizations to place each workload in the right environment, apply the controls it requires, and maintain consistency. The post Designing for sovereign AI: A shared foundation from edge to cloud appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Announcements
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Azure Blog, Hybrid + multicloud, AI, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud
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The GitHub Copilot SDK gives your application an agent runtime. BYOK lets you keep that runtime while sending model requests to your own Microsoft Foundry or Azure OpenAI deployment. Here is the complete C# setup. The post Bring Your Own Model to the GitHub Copilot SDK with C# appeared first on .NET Blog.
Reorder your document tabs and return to them by visual position with new keyboard shortcuts. The post Organize and revisit tabs with the keyboard appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.
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Announcements
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Visual Studio Blog, Visual Studio
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Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception introduce new capabilities to help organizations manage and adapt security measures to match the speed of agents.
New capabilities in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception help organizations contain agent risk and adapt protection continuously. The post Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed. appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Announcements
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Microsoft Security Blog
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Microsoft Teams will introduce a feature to separate attendee invites from events crew invites for Townhalls, allowing organizers to manage different invite lists.
This backend change will now address the 'separation of attendee' invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees. GA date: December CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac
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Microsoft Viva Engage Community feed improvements will align the default experience to better match user behaviors and add support for triage and content review.
Align the community feeds default experience with expected user behaviors; support triage and content review for users who want to read every message in a community. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
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A new usage report for Copilot Connectors will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center, providing detailed insights into connector activity and adoption.
A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Copilot Connectors in Microsoft 365 Copilot, designed to give organizations a detailed view of how connectors are being used within Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report provides insights into overall connector activity, and connector powered response patterns over time, along with detailed user-level connectors adoption data. With these analytics, admins can monitor adoption, identify usage patterns, and optimize Copilot experiences to drive greater value across their organization. #copilotcontrolsystem GA date: November …
Type
M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 admin center, Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web
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Customers can now customize their M365 profile cards by adding custom properties unique to their organization. These properties can be sourced from external systems like HR platforms, enriching user profiles with relevant organizational details. Tenant admins can configure these properties with a display name and icon, which will appear in the Contact Information section of the profile cards. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Web
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IRM alerts and data will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR, allowing analysts to use KQL queries to identify risky patterns. This feature will be enabled through Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings and is generally available in February 2027.
With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM alerts, Indicators and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. IRM alert, Indicators and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” wit…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Defender
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In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
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When a user who has access to the SharePoint app in Teams clicks a SharePoint page or news link in Teams chat or channels, the link will open inside the SharePoint app in Teams (if available) instead of the mobile browser GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint, Teams
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Android, iOS
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Connect with more attendees than ever before with Teams Events, now supporting up to 20,000 registrations for organizers with valid Attendee packs. GA date: December CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
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In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Web
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Meeting notes for non-channel Microsoft Teams meetings will be stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business instead of the note-taker's OneDrive.
For non-channel Microsoft Teams meetings, collaborative meeting notes, including Loop-powered meeting notes and Facilitator notes, will be stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business instead of the OneDrive of the person who starts the notes. This update provides more consistent ownership and management of meeting content while preserving the existing note-taking and collaboration experience for meeting participants. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
OneDrive, Teams
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In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Microsoft Teams, Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web
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Get a closer look at shared content in Teams calls and meetings with pinch-to-zoom using your touchpad. Quickly zoom in to make small text and detailed visuals easier to see, then zoom back out for the full view. Existing zoom controls remain available. GA date: November 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
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Customers can now view agent insights in the Agent 365 Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics) without an Agent 365 license. Customers will be able to view reporting on their Microsoft platform-built agents in one consolidated picture, along with context on who built each agent and why. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
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The row summaries experience has a refreshed layout that makes AI-generated insights more prominent and easier to consume. Improved visual hierarchy (including clearer spacing, background and border treatments, status indicators, and generation labels) helps summaries stand apart from surrounding form sections so users can quickly identify key information. The visual treatment takes inspiration from similar AI-powered experiences in Microsoft 365 apps, creating a more recognizable and consistent presentation for AI-generated content. It also establishes a foundation for bringing insights from …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Power Apps, Web
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Project managers can choose to not import team members or use generic placeholders when importing tasks from one project to another in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This ensures task structure and staffing plans can be reused.
This feature gives project managers control over how resource assignments are handled when importing tasks from one project to another. For each import, project managers can choose to: Not import the team members - Each imported task will lose the assignment information. Use a generic placeholder: Create and assign a generic resource for each assignment in the imported task just like copy project functionality. Tasks without assignments continue to be imported without resources. This ensures that both the task structure and its staffing plan can be reused in the target project. GA date: March …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Web
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This feature gives project managers greater control over where imported tasks are placed within a project plan. From the task grid, a project manager can open the context menu for an existing task and select Insert task below. The standard Import Tasks pane then opens and confirms the selected insertion point. Imported tasks are placed immediately after the selected task and at the same level in the task hierarchy. If the selected task has subtasks, the imported tasks are inserted after the entire group of subtasks, preserving the existing hierarchy. When multiple tasks are imported, they rema…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Web
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A new option in Dynamics 365 Field Service allows admins to disable clickthrough on lookup values in forms, rendering them as plain text to prevent accidental navigation. This change applies to both web and mobile forms.
A new option in the lookup control lets you disable clickthrough on the displayed lookup value. When disabled, the lookup value renders as plain text (not a hyperlink), preventing users from unintentionally opening the related record. This applies to forms across web and mobile. How to use In Power Apps, edit the table form containing the lookup. Select the lookup field, and then select Disable click-through of lookup value. Select Save and publish the form. The mobile app reflects the change after the next sync. Enablement and scope This is a UI‑level control on the lookup field and doesn't r…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Field Service, Web
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