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Power Apps: Use Power Platform connectors in generative pages

Makers can now use Power Platform connectors in generative pages to bring data into model-driven apps. This feature is available in the GA version Gen page v302.

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

Makers can bring data from Power Platform connectors into generative pages. After creating and authenticating a connection and adding a connection reference to the environment, you select the connector data and describe how the generated page should use it. Connector data can be incorporated while working in the Maker Studio generative page designer or through the generative pages AI plugin. Availability Field Value Release Channel Not applicable Version Gen page v302 Applies to Model-driven apps Feature Scope Admins or makers More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/model…

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

Power Apps: Expand model access and Maker Studio availability for generative pages via GitHub

Admins and makers can now connect their GitHub accounts to access additional model options for generative pages in Power Apps Maker Studio, expanding availability to regions without dedicated GPU capacity.

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

Connect your GitHub account to access additional model options for the built-in gen page coding agent directly in the generative page designer in Maker Studio. Makers can use the agent to create and refine generative pages without leaving the Power Apps authoring experience. This integration also brings Maker Studio generative page authoring to regions without dedicated Power Apps GPU capacity. Model availability through GitHub may evolve over time, and requests made through this connection consume the maker’s GitHub credits. Availability Field Value Release Channel Weekly Version 2611.1 Appli…

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

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator in GCC

Microsoft Teams is introducing the Facilitator feature in GCC, which helps capture notes and manage the meeting agenda. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is needed.

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

Facilitator is coming to Microsoft Teams meetings in GCC. The Facilitator agent can help capture notes in real time, answers questions about the meeting, and help keep the agenda and discussion on track. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use Facilitator. GA date: December CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office, Teams · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for recording & transcription in one-to-one PSTN calls

Microsoft Teams will require explicit consent for recording and transcription in one-to-one PSTN calls, with participants prompted via audio to consent or decline.

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

Microsoft Teams will support explicit consent for participants connected through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) in one-to-one calls. When explicit consent is required, PSTN participants will hear an audio prompt when recording or transcription is started. They can use their phone keypad to consent or decline. Participants who decline can remain in the call but stay muted. This capability extends the existing Teams calling policy for explicit consent to one-to-one PSTN calls. GA date: December CY2026

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M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams, Teams Voice
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Android, iOS, Mobile
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams · verify against the original
Informational

Microsoft Edge: Extended Stable channel support for macOS

Microsoft Edge Extended Stable channel will be available for macOS, offering a slower 8-week release cycle.

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Organizations managing macOS devices will be able to select the Microsoft Edge Extended Stable channel, providing a slower 8-week major release cycle, compared to the two-week major release cycle for Stable. GA date: January CY2027

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Payables Agent - Agent can process vendor credit notes

Dynamics 365 Business Central now includes the Payables Agent which can process vendor credit notes, producing purchase credit memos.

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

Payables Agent can recognize a vendor credit note and produce a purchase credit memo and applies to the original invoice, using the same draft and task experience as invoices. Note: It does not have Return Order matching functionality. GA date: November CY2026

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

Power Pages: Plugin support for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code to create and edit traditional sites

Power Pages now supports GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code for creating and editing traditional sites using natural-language prompts.

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

The Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code now supports creating and editing traditional (non-SPA) Power Pages sites. Developers can use natural-language prompts in their AI coding agent to create a new traditional site or download, inspect, and update existing site metadata such as web pages, web templates, content snippets, basic and multistep forms, lists, table permissions, web roles, and site settings, then upload changes back to their environment using the Power Platform CLI. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Power Pages, Developer
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Informational

Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzed a compromise of LiteLLM 1.107.0 that involved credential theft through Python startup hooks.

Security · Microsoft Security Blog Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes the LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromise, including Python startup hooks, credential theft, remote code loading, detections, and mitigations. The post Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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Announcements
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Microsoft Security Blog, Supply chain attack
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Informational

Announcing new builds for 23 October 2026

New Windows 11 Insider Preview builds are available for the Beta channel.

Windows · Windows Experience Blog Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Beta and Experimental channels. New builds this week Select your channel below to view its release notes: Beta: The post Announcing new builds for 23 October 2026 appeared first on Windows Blog.

Type
Announcements
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Windows Experience Blog, PC, Windows Insider Program
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Windows · verify against the original
Informational

Dynamics 365 Finance: Globalization Studio - Unified e‑invoicing integration framework

Dynamics 365 Finance introduces a unified e-invoicing integration framework, allowing external providers to implement their own integrations without Microsoft maintaining provider-specific connectors.

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

The unified extensible e-invoicing integration framework extends the existing Electronic Invoicing service by introducing: A unified outbound and inbound document model (based on international standards such as UBL and PEPPOL). A standardized submission and response pipeline and API for e-invoicing documents and related statuses. A clear extensibility model that allows external ASPs, ISVs, Microsoft partners, and customers to implement their own integrations without requiring Microsoft to build or maintain provider specific connectors. With this framework, Microsoft defines the data (format) c…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, 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 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Use AI resources for your Copilot extensions

Microsoft is introducing AI resources for Copilot extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, simplifying AI integration and management for publishers and customers.

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

Using the AI resources provides several benefits: Reduced operational overhead: Avoid the need to handle infrastructure management, updates, monitoring, troubleshooting, or maintenance of custom Azure OpenAI subscriptions. This benefit frees up resources to focus on core business operations and provides value-adding intellectual property (IP) to customers. Simplified onboarding: Quickly integrate AI capabilities into your solutions without having to navigate the complexities of setting up and managing your own Azure OpenAI subscription. Improved reliability: Proactive scaling, throttling, load…

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

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys: Elevate customer experiences - Set message expirations to keep communication relevant

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights now allows setting expiration dates on messages in journeys, ensuring communications remain relevant. This feature is automatically enabled for admins/makers/marketers.

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

Set an expiration date on any message in your journeys (emails, text messages, push notifications, or custom). Choose from different expiration options (no expiry, expiration based on a date and time, or a trigger). Review analytics to understand which customers didn't receive messages due to expiration dates. Scenario: Contoso specializes in hosting virtual events and webinars for their customers. They have a customer journey designed to promote upcoming events, send reminders, and offer exclusive discounts to attendees. Contoso sets expiration dates on event reminder messages. This ensures t…

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: Process mining - Get support for normalized schema import for data ingestion

Power Automate Process Mining now supports normalized schema import, which speeds up data ingestion and reduces storage needs.

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

Most systems of record have data stored in data structures that allow you to easily extract information about the analyzed entity (case-level data) and historical changes on those entities (event-level data). The attributes are also stored in a normalized form. The single-table approach to event log creation requires you to do inefficient transformations. With this feature, Power Automate Process Mining supports the case-event entity-based data structure plus a normalized form of attributes. This speeds up the ingestion process in both the transformation and import to process model phases and …

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

Power Automate: Process mining - Export object-centric process mining data to Microsoft Fabric semantic model

Power Automate now allows exporting object-centric process mining data directly to Microsoft Fabric, enabling integration with other analytics tools and data sources.

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

This feature allows seamless integration with Microsoft Fabric for enterprise-wide analytics. It enables direct publishing of object-centric process mining (OCPM) results into Microsoft Fabric semantic models, making process intelligence data available throughout the Microsoft analytics ecosystem. Key capabilities include: Semantic model publishing: Export OCPM analysis results, including objects, events, relationships, and attributes, directly to Fabric as structured semantic models. Multi-object support: Preserve the rich, object-centric structure of your process data, maintaining relationsh…

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

Power Pages: Administration and governance - Enable self-service site ownership transfer

Power Pages now supports secure site ownership transfer, allowing existing site owners or global administrators to assign ownership to another valid user within the tenant. This feature is automatically enabled for admins/makers/marketers and will be generally available in September 2026.

Other · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
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Original Microsoft text

Power Pages now supports secure site ownership transfer for eligible sites. Existing site owners and global administrators can assign ownership to another valid user within the tenant without requiring manual intervention from support. The new owner must be a valid user with appropriate access to the environment. Every ownership transfer is recorded in an auditable history, including the previous owner, new owner, initiating user, and timestamp. Notifications are sent to the previous owner, the new owner, and administrators to ensure transparency and continuity and the changes get logged into …

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, 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 Finance: Globalization Studio - Enhance Electronic Reporting with new capabilities

Dynamics 365 Finance Electronic Reporting (ER) has received several enhancements, including support for BCC recipients, GS1 barcode generation, and new integer arithmetic functions. These updates improve document distribution and formula writing in ER.

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

Electronic Reporting (ER) is the configurable engine you use to author and run business documents—invoices, statutory reports, VAT declarations and payment files, and more. In 10.0.48 and 10.0.49 Microsoft delivered a set of general enhancements that respond directly to the most highly voted ideas on the Microsoft Idea portal and to recurring partner/customer requests. The enhancements remove long-standing workarounds, expand what ER formats can express out of the box, and modernize commonly used destinations. You can now: Send generated documents to silent (BCC) recipients straight from ER. P…

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 Supply Chain Management: Planning - Enhance demand forecasts with multiple data inputs

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management has been updated to support multiple data inputs for demand forecasting, enhancing forecast accuracy and aiding in supply chain optimization.

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

Demand planning in Supply Chain Management helps you forecast demand using diverse data sources and signals. The latest updates enhance forecast accuracy, enabling you to optimize your supply chain and improve financial outcomes. New capabilities include: Support for multiple signals: Define multiple input signals such as inflation or weather-related measures and apply the XGBoost forecast algorithm. XGBoost assesses correlation, analyzes the impact of each signal against historical sales data, and incorporates these insights into the forecast result. New forecast algorithms: Use algorithms li…

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

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys: Elevate customer experiences - Enable advanced personalization using simple formulas to modify text, dates, and numbers

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights introduces new PowerFx functions for text, numbers, and dates to enhance message personalization without changing the data model.

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

Apply a variety of PowerFx functions to text, numbers, and dates in messages. Text functions include concatenation, change case, trim, substitute, and replace. Number functions include arithmetic calculations, rounding, and formatting. Business Value: Enhance personalization by transforming data directly within your messages using PowerFx expressions. Standardize customer names (for example, convert to proper case), format dates and numbers for different regions, and perform simple calculations such as days until expiration or suggested donation amounts based on prior activity. These capabilit…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, 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

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Manufacturing and asset management - Enforce same-batch selection for raw materials in production and batch orders

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management introduces same-batch selection for raw materials, ensuring consistent consumption in production and batch orders. This feature is available in version 10.0.49 and will be further enhanced in future updates.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

This feature ensures that raw materials consumed by production orders and batch orders all come from the same batch. Process and discrete manufacturers can use it together with related production-control capabilities that govern how raw materials are allocated to a production order. Product designers and production engineers can set the same-batch requirement at the released-product level so that it applies by default everywhere the item is consumed. They can optionally fine-tune it for individual bill of materials (BOM) or formula lines where a different rule is appropriate. Production planne…

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

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Data: Agents and Copilot - Increase AI accuracy by grounding agents in customer insights

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights introduces a new MCP server that allows AI agents and chat experiences to access and understand customer insights, enhancing AI accuracy and providing more unified customer data.

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

The Customer Insights MCP server allows AI agents and chat experiences to access and understand insights generated by Customer Insights - Data. The Customer Insights MCP server uses the industry-standard MCP architecture to securely share unified profiles and insights with AI agents and chat experiences, providing the data context so AI agents can do their best work. AI tools can use the Customer Insights MCP server to: Resolve Dataverse contacts and leads to their unified customer profile. Access extended customer information unified by Customer Insights - Data from external sources not avail…

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

Power Pages: Professional developer experiences - Control Power Pages components using client APIs

Power Pages now offers Client APIs to control components using JavaScript, improving maintainability and development speed.

Other · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Developers often depend on custom JavaScript and fragile Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation to hide fields, update values, or trigger actions, an approach that easily breaks when page structures change, drives up maintenance costs, limits scalability, and leads to inconsistent experiences. Power Pages Client APIs address these challenges by offering stable, documented, and supported methods to interact with components, reducing risk, improving maintainability, and accelerating development. The Power Pages Client APIs (Preview) provide a JavaScript interface for controlling UI components …

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, 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 Finance: Core financials - Detect corruption in source document budget control tracking

Dynamics 365 Finance adds a diagnostic tool to detect corruption in budget control tracking data, helping finance users identify issues before running repair actions.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Budget control tracking data can become difficult to analyze when the underlying budget source is missing or when relieving relationships between commitments and relieving documents are broken. These conditions can make it harder for finance users to understand why budget control data does not reconcile as expected and where repair should begin. With this feature, Dynamics 365 Finance adds diagnostic capability to Budget control data maintenance. The diagnostic is designed to detect corrupted budget tracking data patterns before users run repair actions and highlight budget-controlled document…

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 Customer Insights - Journeys: Elevate customer experiences - Boost customer confidence with branded content links

Branded content links allow setting up vanity links in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, improving link visibility and trust in emails and other hosted assets.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

With branded content links, you can: Set up your vanity link (or custom link) in the domain authenticator. Once authenticated, your vanity domain will be visible in: All links in your emails. Hosted digital assets, forms, event registration pages, and your preference center. Scenario A retail brand launches a holiday campaign featuring special bundles and limited‑time offers. Instead of using long, generic tracking URLs, the team enables branded content links. Every email now displays clean, trustworthy links using the company’s own domain. Customers feel more confident clicking through, resul…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, 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

Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation - View next best actions with Customer Intent Agent

Admins can enable the next best actions feature in the Customer Service admin center, which provides service representatives with recommended actions and knowledge articles.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

An administrator can enable this feature for the entire organization in the Customer Service admin center. Turning on next best actions populates the Copilot pane with actions that service representatives can use. Important case attributes are consolidated in one place as the representative gathers information through back-and-forth exchanges with the customer. Knowledge articles are suggested so representatives can dig deeper and understand the reasoning behind the recommendations. Business Value: Next Best Action (NBA) allows service representatives to perform a suite of Copilot-powered acti…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), 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 Contact Center: Administrator experiences - Use enhanced customer-first direct callbacks

Administrators can now configure AI-powered callback profiles in the Copilot Service admin center to manage customer callbacks for Dynamics 365 Contact Center queues.

Dynamics 365 · m365-roadmap Original Microsoft announcement ↗
Details

Original Microsoft text

Customer-first direct callback introduces a configurable, AI-powered experience managed through "callback profiles" in the Copilot Service admin center. Administrators define a callback profile—including greeting message, alternate number capture, callback offering window, retry logic, and AI agent selection—and associate it with queues under overflow handling. For each queue where direct callback is chosen as an overflow action, the administrator also must select a callback profile to ensure a customized callback experience for the queue. Business Value: Customer-first direct callback gives y…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, 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