Ask Copilot about an image in Edge enables users to instantly analyze images from the web by sending them directly to Copilot from the Edge context menu, making it easy to ask questions, gain insights, and understand visual content without leaving their browsing experience. Admins can control availability to this feature using the EdgeEntraCopilotPageContext and Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled policies. GA date: January CY2027
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Entra ID
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Edge · verify against the original
Microsoft Teams Pro Management portal now includes utilization analytics for bookable desks, similar to meeting rooms. Admins need to associate devices and license desks with Shared Space licenses to enable analytics.
What you should do
Ensure bookable desks are associated with peripheral devices and licensed with appropriate Teams Shared Space licenses. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Teams admins can access utilization analytics for Teams bookable desks on Teams Pro Management portal, similar to analytics provided for meeting rooms on the portal today. For utilization analytics to be enabled, a desk needs to have one or more peripheral device associated, and the desk needs to be licensed with Teams Shared Space license or Teams Shared Space - Single Space license. GA date: December CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams · verify against the original
Legacy Teams retention policies that currently apply to Copilot interactions will be converted to Teams-only policies, no longer governing Copilot workloads.
What you should do
Review and adjust existing retention policies to ensure they align with the new Teams-only scope. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Some existing retention policies scoped to Microsoft Teams may currently also apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions. As part of an upcoming change, these legacy Teams retention policies will be converted to—and treated as—Teams-only policies. They will no longer implicitly govern Copilot workloads. GA date: January CY2027
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams
Tags
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Dynamics 365 Field Service allows administrators to control whether booking completion automatically updates the booking End Time, helping maintain accurate duration records.
What you should do
Review and configure the organization-level Set End Time on booked resource completion setting in Field Service settings to ensure accurate booking duration records. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Business value Technicians do not always record booking completion at the moment work ends. They may update the booking later because of connectivity, customer-facing responsibilities, or end-of-day administration. When the later administrative action replaces the booking End Time, the recorded duration can extend beyond the work that was actually performed and affect downstream journals, time entries, labor costs, actuals, and work-order completion reporting. Field Service administrators can choose whether completion by the booked resource automatically changes the booking End Time. Organizat…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Field Service, Android, Desktop, iOS, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
OneDrive is adding administrative controls for the Photos experience on Windows. Organizations can manage whether users sign in with personal Microsoft accounts. These controls help IT teams align OneDrive Photos with their access, data governance, and device-management requirements. GA date: August CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
OneDrive
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), OneDrive, Desktop
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Windows, OneDrive · verify against the original
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.
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
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Microsoft 365 Apps
Tags
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
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.
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
Microsoft Edge will allow users to translate PDF documents into their preferred language, with admin control via the TranslateEnabled policy. Generally available in January 2027.
What you should do
Review and configure the TranslateEnabled policy as needed. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Users will be able to translate full PDF documents directly within the native PDF viewer in Microsoft Edge. The translated document opens in a new tab, making it easier to access content in their preferred language. Admins can control availability to this feature using the TranslateEnabled policy. GA date: January CY2027
Type
M365 Roadmap
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
This enables users to export Identifiable row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis. This capability can be tuned On by Admins in a tenant. GA date: November CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Viva, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Microsoft 365 / Office · verify against the original
Admins can now choose whether the organizer name will show up in the Calendar View on Teams panels. Admins can toggle the "Show organizer name" setting ON or OFF in the Pro Management portal or on the panel device. Based on the selection, the organizer name will or will not be shown in the calendar view on the panel device. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Space licenses. GA date: October CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Teams, Teams Rooms
Tags
Rolling out, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Android, Teams and Surface Devices
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Teams, Teams Rooms · verify against the original
Azure DevOps Services and Server are not affected by the PHP vulnerabilities, but pipelines, containers, and deployed applications may require separate patching.
What you should do
Review and update the security settings for pipelines, containers, and deployed applications to ensure they are patched against the PHP vulnerabilities. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
On October 21, 2026, PHP disclosed two critical vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution. Neither Azure DevOps Services, our cloud-hosted offering, nor Azure DevOps Server, our on-premises product, uses PHP to handle customer requests. PHP runtimes used by pipelines, containers, and deployed applications have their own patching requirements. Deployment scope: cloud and on-premises Azure […] The post PHP2Shell and Azure DevOps: what to check appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Out-of-band security updates for .NET address the Brotli decoder vulnerability and tarball ownership vulnerability. The post .NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
Row summaries are now available in US Government clouds, allowing users to access AI-generated insights in model-driven apps. Admins and makers need to enable and configure this feature for users.
What you should do
Admins and makers should enable and configure row summaries for users in model-driven apps. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Row summaries are expanding to supported US Government clouds, giving users in regulated environments access to AI-generated insights that help them understand model-driven app records at a glance. This release brings the row summary experience available to commercial customers to supported government environments while meeting their applicable compliance and data-boundary requirements. Admins and makers enable and configure row summaries for users in their model-driven apps. Availability Field Value Release Channel Weekly Version 2611.1 Applies to Model-driven apps Feature Scope Users (enable…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, Power Apps, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Overflow for direct inward dialing leverages conversation orchestration to detect key direct inward dialing-related events—such as the representative being busy, offline, rejecting the call, or failing to answer—and apply administrator-defined fallback actions. Administrators configure natural language playbooks using conversation orchestration at the global or inbound profile level to specify the action to run when a direct inward dialed call can't be attended to or completed. The actions include offering a direct callback to the caller, sending them to voicemail, transferring the call to ano…
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 · verify against the original
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.
What you should do
Review and update existing policies to include attachment checks, and configure new policies to enforce governance on attachments. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
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
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Admins can now configure the strictness level of governance policies in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, allowing more lenient or rigorous enforcement of email compliance rules.
What you should do
Review and adjust the strictness levels of governance policies as needed to align with compliance requirements and risk tolerance. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
This feature introduces policy strictness control, enabling organizations to define how rigorously each governance policy evaluates and flags potential violations in outgoing emails. Governance policies serve as real-time guardrails, ensuring communications adhere to business, legal, and compliance standards before they are sent to customers. With this enhancement, supervisors can configure the strictness level for each policy. Lower strictness settings apply more lenient enforcement, reducing false positives and allowing borderline scenarios to pass, while higher settings perform more rigorou…
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
Admins can now configure personalized outreach emails generated by Dynamics 365 Sales Qualification Agent, allowing teams to set goals, tone, and messaging preferences.
What you should do
Admins should review and configure the new settings for personalized outreach emails to ensure consistency with company branding and messaging goals. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
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
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Admins and makers need to configure site analytics for Power Pages sites to monitor traffic and user interactions, starting from a preview in October 2026.
What you should do
Admins and makers should enable site analytics by adding the analytics provider script in the setup workspace. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Gain insights into your Power Pages site with integrated telemetry and analytics. Use Application Insights to monitor page views, form interactions, session details, and client-side analytics. Detect server-side errors, performance issues, and access logs to resolve problems and optimize your site. To configure site analytics, makers must open the setup workspace and add the analytics provider script to enable traffic analytics. Business Value: You can monitor your Power Pages site traffic and user interactions with ease. Track page views, form interactions, and session details using client-si…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Power Pages, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
Quality Managers can now edit and override completed evaluations in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, ensuring accurate assessment records. This feature is available for AI-assisted, AI-generated, and manual evaluations, with audit trails for transparency and governance.
What you should do
Review and configure permissions for Quality Managers to ensure they can override evaluations as needed. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
This feature enables Quality Managers to edit and override evaluation results even after they are marked as completed or expired. While completed evaluations remain read-only by default to preserve integrity, supervisors can initiate an Edit action when discrepancies are identified, such as incorrect AI predictions or errors in manual assessments. In edit mode, supervisors can update evaluation responses, adjust scores, and refine comments to reflect an accurate assessment. This ensures that evaluation records represent the final, validated view of agent performance and interaction quality. Th…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Admins can now enforce governance policies to control AI-generated customer communications in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.
What you should do
Admins should review and configure governance policies to enforce compliance with business, legal, and regulatory requirements. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Create and enforce policies that prevent risky or noncompliant customer communications. Governance policy checks serve as configurable safeguards that review AI‑generated and autonomous email responses before they are sent to customers. These checks enforce business, legal, and regulatory requirements by validating responses for relevance, prohibited content, and sensitive topics. If a response fails a policy check, delivery is blocked and the violation is clearly identified, enabling supervisors to review issues and take actions to improve outcomes. Governance policies are applied consistentl…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Web
AI analysis
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Dynamics 365 Commerce introduces a unified sign-in system for B2B web storefronts, allowing buyers to access multiple organizations and outlets with a single account. Administrators must configure organization and outlet relationships and activate the unified sign-in option.
What you should do
Configure organization and outlet relationships, and activate the unified sign-in option in the storefront settings. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
The multioutlet B2B web storefront introduces a unified sign-in system that allows buyers to access all their associated organizations and outlets using a single account. The storefront UI is updated to display an organization selector during sign-in and provides outlet-specific navigation and catalog views. Buyers can place, track, and manage orders for multiple outlets within a single session, with real-time visibility into order status, inventory, and account information. This feature supports role-based access, ensuring that users only see the organizations and outlets they are authorized …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Dynamics 365 Commerce, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original
Dynamics 365 Customer Service introduces autonomous email resolution, allowing emails to be handled without manual intervention. Admins can enable this feature and set the automation level for different business lines.
What you should do
Admins should review and enable the autonomous email resolution feature as needed for their business lines. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Autonomous email resolution delivers end-to-end handling of customer emails without manual intervention or default case creation. When an email arrives, the system analyzes the request, identifies the underlying intent, and determines whether the information and actions needed to resolve it are available. Using enterprise knowledge, configured business instructions, connectors, and custom agents, the system constructs a resolution dynamically. It generates a response that's context-aware, compliant with business rules, and tailored to the request, then delivers it directly by email—completing …
Type
M365 Roadmap
Tags
Launched, General Availability, Preview, 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
Power Pages now allows administrators to manage external authentication providers with granular controls, enabling central enforcement and site-level exceptions. This feature is enabled for end users automatically and will be generally available in January 2027.
What you should do
Navigate to the Power Platform admin center to configure allowed or restricted external IDPs and manage exceptions for specific sites. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
Power Pages now lets you manage external authentication providers with environment-level governance controls and optional site-level exceptions. You can centrally enforce which identity providers (IDPs) are allowed across all sites in an environment, while still enabling site-specific flexibility when needed. Makers will only see and select from the approved IDPs when setting up authentication, ensuring consistent governance and alignment with enterprise security policies. To enable this feature, go to the Power Platform admin center. Navigate to Manage > Power Pages > Governance settings > Au…
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
Entra ID
Tags
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Power Pages, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · verify against the original
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips GA date: August CY2026
Type
M365 Roadmap
Services
SharePoint
Tags
Launched, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
AI analysis
Low priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects SharePoint · verify against the original
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.
What you should do
Review and configure same-batch selection at the product level to ensure consistency in raw material consumption. AI-suggested
Why: This change may need administrator attention depending on how your environment is configured.
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
Medium priority · generated by qwen2.5:7b · possibly affects Dynamics 365 · verify against the original