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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Multiple MAM (Mobile Application Management) Intune Accounts will now be supported in Outlook for Android. Only one MDM (Mobile Device Management) account will be supported at a time per device. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Intune, Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Outlook, Android
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Real-time streaming analytics is built into the new supervisor application. An advanced streaming engine keeps metrics up to date with near-instant updates, allowing supervisors to view the latest data without refreshing the dashboard. Key capabilities include: Continuous, streaming dashboards: Monitor mission-critical KPIs such as queue backlog, service level, abandon rate, and representative presence in near real time. Visual alerts highlight anomalies as they occur. Full-screen wallboards: Display live metrics on high-resolution monitors across the contact center floor, providing teams with…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Web
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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
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Edit with Copilot makes it easier to edit and transform your Excel workbooks on your phone using natural language. Copilot can continue working on your task even when you move away from the app, so you can come back when the work is ready. Chat mode also remains available when you want to ask questions and get insights without making changes to your workbook. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Excel, iOS
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Dynamics 365 Commerce introduces new capabilities for Trade Counter POS, allowing businesses to manage trade counter operations more flexibly and efficiently.
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 products quickly. They can review customer history, credit terms, and contract pricing, and use product attributes to identify items that meet the customer's requirements. Associates can build and manage large carts efficiently. Bulk add lets them enter multiple items and quantities, while quick add w…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Commerce, Desktop, Web
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App Blocks enables M365 Copilot Chat users to turn their requests and data into rich, interactive experiences directly within the conversation, including calculators, dashboards, forms, planners, visualizations, simulations, comparison tools, and other interactive apps. It helps users move beyond static responses to explore data, adjust inputs, visualize outcomes, and simulate workflows in place, while supporting grounded scenarios where current information can be retrieved and then rendered into an interactive experience. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web
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Excel now includes a new get data skill powered by Copilot, allowing users to describe data needs and have the tool handle data connection and transformation.
Get your data ready, just by asking. Describe the data you need and how you want it prepared, and the new get data skill handles the rest. It can connect and transform your data, then load the results into your workbook using Power Query, giving you a query you can inspect, edit, and refresh without having to build it yourself. Depending on the data source, authentication may be required. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Excel, Web
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Dynamics 365 Finance introduces optimized customer data entities for more focused integration of customer information, with GA in July 2027 and a preview in October 2026.
Dynamics 365 Finance introduces a set of optimized customer data entities that provide more focused options for integrating customer information. Instead of relying on a single broad customer entity, organizations can work with purpose-specific entities for core customer information, extended customer attributes, postal addresses, electronic contact information, and customer associations. The optimized entities support both Data management import/export and OData integration scenarios, enabling organizations to build customer integrations around the specific data required for each business pro…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations cross-app, Web
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Administrators can now configure task grid actions in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, allowing them to control which actions are visible in various views and controls.
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. Configurable actions include views such as Board, Timeline, Charts, Assignments, People, and Goals; toolbar commands such as Baseline, Conditional Formatting, and export; and task-management actions such as Indent, Outdent, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, and dependency management. Essential capabilities, incl…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Web
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Dynamics 365 Sustainability now includes a restatement capability to recalculate previously calculated emissions, maintaining traceability and supporting various correction scenarios.
Organizations can recalculate previously calculated emissions using a new restatement capability in Dynamics 365 Sustainability. Users can create a new calculation result while preserving the original result, helping maintain traceability between the original and restated emissions. Users can identify the calculation being restated, capture the reason for the restatement, and retain the calculation history. This supports scenarios such as correcting errors, incorporating improved activity data or emission factors, changing methodologies, and reflecting organizational or structural changes. GA …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Sustainability, Web
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Power Pages will support native connectors, allowing secure integration with enterprise systems like SQL, SAP, and Oracle. This feature is particularly useful for regulated industries such as banking and financial services.
Native connectors support through Power Pages will allow organizations to securely connect their websites/portals directly to enterprise systems such as SQL, SAP, and Oracle, without building or maintaining custom integration layers. This capability is especially valuable for regulated and enterprise customers such as banking and financial services, who need to surface data from systems hosted behind corporate firewalls. By leveraging the Power Platform on-premises data gateway and connector framework, customers can reduce integration complexity, lower operational costs, and accelerate deliver…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Power Pages, Web
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As subsurface data grows in scale and complexity, teams need a faster, more connected way to transform uncertainty into actionable decisions. The post Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modeling appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Type
Announcements
Tags
Azure Blog, Storage, Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Energy
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Start a standalone Markdown note and use the opt-in Hot Exit preview to resume unsaved work next session. The post Keep your investigation between sessions appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.
Type
Announcements
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Visual Studio Blog, Visual Studio
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Dynamics 365 Customer Service will enforce governance policies on email attachments, blocking emails with non-compliant content. This affects administrators who need to configure policies to include attachment checks.
This feature extends governance capabilities to evaluate email attachments, closing a critical gap where sensitive or non-compliant information may exist outside the email body. When a user sends an email with attachments, the system automatically scans each document and applies configured governance policies. In the initial release, analysis is focused on plain text content within supported document types, such as Word and PDF files. Non-text elements, including images or embedded content, are excluded in this phase to ensure predictable and efficient processing. Every attachment included in …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
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Admins can now configure personalized outreach emails generated by Dynamics 365 Sales Qualification Agent, allowing teams to set goals, tone, and messaging preferences.
Define outreach scenario/goal in natural language. Choose desired call-to-action to drive next steps. Provide subject line guidance: fixed suggestion or style recommendation. Set message length and brevity targets. Specify tone rules, including name-usage limits and preferred terminology. Configure brand language and voice guardrails: approved phrases and banned words. Set formatting preferences: bullets, paragraph length, and maximum bullet count. Business Value: This feature expands the Sales Qualification Agent outreach by letting teams define the outreach purpose, brand-aligned tone (match…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Sales, Web
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The enhanced screen recording capability offers greater flexibility and control, enabling organizations to manage recording behavior with more precision. Key enhancements include: Access all recording settings and configurations from Customer Service admin center > Quality Management. Enable or disable screen recording using a dedicated toggle. Capture call audio alongside screen recordings. Turn off the red border displayed around representative screens during active window recording. Allow users with the screen recording supervisor role to play recordings within the Customer Service workspac…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
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Dynamics 365 Sales introduces the ability to deploy multiple Sales Qualification Agents in a single environment, allowing for more targeted lead management and exclusive engagement.
Segment-specific qualification: Each agent operates with its own ideal customer profile, knowledge sources, templates, and consent settings, ensuring qualification conversations reflect the nuances of each product, region, or team. Intelligent lead routing: The system evaluates incoming leads against agent selection criteria and assigns ownership based on configured priority, ensuring predictable and conflict-free lead management. A fallback agent handles leads that don't match any specialized criteria, ensuring no lead goes unprocessed. Exclusive engagement with coordinated handoff: Only one …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Sales, Web
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Admins can now enable enhanced screen recording controls in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, providing more granular management of recording settings and behaviors.
The enhanced screen recording capability offers greater flexibility and control, enabling organizations to manage recording behavior with more precision. Key enhancements include: Access all recording settings and configurations from Customer Service admin center > Quality Management. Enable or disable screen recording using a dedicated toggle. Capture call audio alongside screen recordings. Turn off the red border displayed around representative screens during active window recording. Allow users with the screen recording supervisor role to play recordings within the Customer Service workspac…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
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Customize your view: choose a Contact or Lead view from the new view picker to define which columns appear in the segment members table. Align export with your view: exported member data automatically reflects your selected columns, ensuring consistency and eliminating post-export cleanup. Quickly find specific members: use the built-in search to locate individuals within the segment membership list instantly. Business Value: Understanding and acting on your audience starts with having the right data at your fingertips. Until now, getting the full context for segment members often meant switch…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys, Web
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