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Outlook: Purview DLP Wait-on-Send Support for Outlook mobile apps

Outlook mobile apps for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, allowing administrators to control when emails are sent after DLP evaluation.

What you should do

Review and configure DLP policies for mobile users to ensure compliance and manage user experience. AI-suggested

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

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

Outlook for iOS and Android will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) wait-on-send policies. Organizations can require a DLP evaluation before an email is sent and configure how long users must wait for policy evaluation to complete. This helps ensure sensitive information is inspected against organizational policies before messages leave the organization while providing administrators with flexible control over the user experience. GA date: November CY2026

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M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Outlook, Android, iOS
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Review Recommended

Outlook: Purview DLP Wait-on-Send Support for Mac

Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, allowing administrators to control the user experience and ensure sensitive information is inspected before emails are sent.

What you should do

Review and configure DLP policies for Outlook for Mac to ensure compliance and user experience. AI-suggested

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

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

Outlook for Mac will support Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) wait-on-send policies. Organizations can require a DLP evaluation before an email is sent and configure how long users must wait for policy evaluation to complete. This helps ensure sensitive information is inspected against organizational policies before messages leave the organization while providing administrators with flexible control over the user experience. GA date: November CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Outlook, Mac
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Review Recommended

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: View resolved prices in a consolidated pricing view

A new Pricing tab appears on the contract and quote forms, replacing the Project Price List tab, and displays a consolidated view of prices. Admins should review customizations or automation built against the existing tab before adoption.

What you should do

Review and update any customizations or automation built against the Project Price List tab before the feature is enabled. AI-suggested

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

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

A new Pricing tab appears on the contract (and later the quote) and becomes the default pricing surface, replacing the Project Price List tab. Instead of listing only the price lists apply, it displays a consolidated grid of the prices that actually default for each pricing-dimension combination and date. You switch between price types, labor/role, category, and material, with a view picker, and role-price markups appear within the role view. A Date filter defaults to today and updates the grid to reflect date-effective overrides, and a Date effectivity column shows the date range each price i…

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

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Notify users when approval sets finish processing

Dynamics 365 Project Operations will notify users when approval sets finish processing, showing success or failure details in-app. Admins can enable this feature by adding approvals to the existing notification settings list.

What you should do

Review and update the 'Select jobs for notification' list to include the necessary approvals for in-app notifications. AI-suggested

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

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

When an approval set finishes processing, the person who started it receives an in-app notification built on the existing long-running-process (No More Wait) framework, and they see only notifications for the operations they triggered. On success, a brief pop-up reports that the approval set completed, shows the approval set name, and provides a deep link to the record, and the notification stays in the notifications pane until you clear it. When one or more approvals in the set fail, the notification reports that the set completed with failures, shows the failure reason, and links directly to…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
Launched, General Availability, 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
Review Recommended

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Extend price overrides to category and material

Dynamics 365 Project Operations will extend date-effective price overrides to expense category and material prices, allowing administrators to manage all three price types in one place. This feature is expected to be generally available in March 2027.

What you should do

Review any plug-ins or default pricing logic for category and material before adopting the new feature. AI-suggested

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

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

Project Operations price lists support three price types — role, expense category, and product/material — but only role prices currently support date-effective overrides. This feature extends date-effective price overrides to expense category and material prices, so you can schedule a future or time-bound price change for a category or material the same way you do for a role, without creating a separate, context-specific price list. The system honors the override when it prices a transaction, so the effective price reflects the override in force on the transaction date. The feature also aligns…

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
In development, General Availability, 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
Review Recommended

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Restrict task assignments to project team members

Task assignments in Dynamics 365 Project Operations will be restricted to project team members only, starting in March 2027.

What you should do

Review and update task assignment processes to ensure compliance with the new restrictions. AI-suggested

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

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

This feature strengthens assignment governance by limiting the resources displayed in the Assigned to column to members of the current project team. Project managers can assign tasks only to resources who have already been added to the project, instead of selecting from the organization’s complete resource list. If a resource isn’t part of the project team, the resource must first be added to the team before being assigned a task. This controlled workflow keeps task assignments aligned with the project’s defined staffing model and prevents resources from being assigned outside the established …

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

Microsoft Edge: Auto-open Copilot side pane for Outlook links

Microsoft Edge will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users click on Outlook links, providing contextual insights. Admins can control this feature via the M365LinksAutoOpenCopilotEnabled policy.

What you should do

Review and configure the M365LinksAutoOpenCopilotEnabled policy to manage this feature in your environment. AI-suggested

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

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

When users open links from Outlook, Microsoft Edge can automatically open the Copilot side pane to provide contextual insights and actionable suggestion chips based on email and destination content - such as highlighting key points, and recommending next actions - without disrupting the browsing flow. This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge. Admins can control availability to this feature using the M365LinksAutoOpenCopilotEnabled policy. GA date: December CY2026

Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
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
Review Recommended

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Optimize Project Operations - Use time-zone-agnostic fields in project planning

Dynamics 365 Project Operations introduces new fields to store project task start and end times without converting to GMT, to avoid date changes due to time zone conversions.

What you should do

Review and create new fields on the entity to store project task start and end times without converting to GMT to avoid date changes. AI-suggested

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

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

Project and project task start, and end times are saved in a date-time format. The system converts these times to GMT before saving them. When the product displays these times, it converts them back to the user's time zone. However, some integrations and customizations pull only the date from this field. This approach causes problems when the conversion to GMT changes the date. The problem happens when an integration pulls only that date from the field without converting it back to GMT. To prevent this problem, create new fields on the entity to store the start and end date and time values wit…

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