Dynamics 365 Sales: Sales tools, skills and plugin are now available in Copilot Cowork
The updated Sales plugin brings expanded Dynamics 365 Sales context, actions, and guided workflows to Copilot Cowork, building on the nati…
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Short reads on AI, Agent, Copilot, Cowork, Copilot Studio, Foundry, and SharePoint agent items from the Microsoft 365 roadmap (1 Sept 2026 onwards).
The updated Sales plugin brings expanded Dynamics 365 Sales context, actions, and guided workflows to Copilot Cowork, building on the nati…
Show and manage documents where agents require human interaction by using a new review bar on documents and lists. GA date: October CY2026…
You can open image attachments in the Business Central web client without downloading the images first. Files display in preview mode with…
Expense Agent web app now uses dedicated resource assignments for projects to determine which projects are available to each user when the…
Expense Agent supports more languages and regions, enabling an experience for users in all countries/regions where Business Central is ava…
Expense Agent can identify and handle duplicated expense submissions. Key capabilities include: Enhanced duplicate detection that identifi…
Organizations can automatically calculate employee withholding taxes (WHT) as part of the expense report process. When employees submit ex…
Expense Agent supports automated VAT handling for expense reports, which can help simplify tax management and improve reporting accuracy. …
Expense Agent can validate submitted expense reports against approval policies written in natural language and provide approvers with guid…
Expense Agent now supports advanced mileage rate configuration based on both effective date ranges and vehicle types, enabling more flexib…
"Run the standalone AL language server to provide completion, navigation, references, rename, formatting, and other project-aware LSP feat…
"Let an AI agent schedule profiling for a Business Central session, collect CPU and memory data, identify costly AL paths, and summarize S…
"Let coding agents find available IDs for AL objects and extension objects within project ranges, reducing manual range checks and collisi…
"Use compiler diagnostic AL0926 to identify AL object sections declared in the wrong order instead of interpreting multiple secondary and …
"Search objects installed in a connected Business Central environment, including owning-app metadata needed to add dependencies and downlo…
"Write AL MCP server diagnostics to a configurable file, select the appropriate detail level for troubleshooting, or turn file logging off…
"Describe a failing scenario to an AI agent, record the next matching Business Central session or a known session, and collect its snapsho…
"Start the AL MCP server without a predefined project, add AL projects at runtime, and use configured connection details in headless scena…
Manage agents more easily by grouping avatars and using a dedicated action to start new tasks. GA date: October CY2026
This feature introduces visual avatars in Business Central list pages to indicate which user or agent created or last modified a record. T…
Use new MCP tools to define, validate, and run custom data queries. Your MCP application can then query data for which no existing APIs ex…
This improvement introduces the ability for Business Central users to review and approve content generated by agents directly on the pages…
This feature introduces a dedicated task pane in Business Central that displays all tasks generated by the agents. The task pane appears a…
Assign additional permissions to agents when they request them. GA date: October CY2026
This feature improves PO matching quality in Payables Agent and aligns draft finalization behavior with existing posting controls. The age…
The updated Microsoft Copilot chat experience introduces a modern, consistent, and intuitive interface that aligns Business Central with t…
Expand Context IQ so users can discover and select additional agents, skills, and content sources while composing prompts. GA date: Novemb…
Enable Work IQ to invoke custom agents and agents that call supported third-party tools. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY…
With the Skills catalog in Copilot Studio, makers can discover, reuse and selectively share approved organizational skills instead of recr…
Legal plugins in Copilot provide purpose-built skills to help legal professionals summarize, draft, review, and redline legal documents. A…
Discover easier ways to use Copilot in OneDrive The new Prompt Gallery offers ready-to-use prompts for common file tasks, helping you get …
We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This…
Copilot brings agentic video creation to Clipchamp Video Hub. Users can generate, edit, and refine videos from prompts—grounded in explici…
Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them…
The Maker guidelines feature gives organizations a direct way to share guidance with Copilot Studio makers in the flow of work. Administra…
Business value Subcontractors often document completed work through photos, service reports, inspection forms, certificates, and other fil…
Microsoft Copilot in the Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile app brings conversational AI chat capabilities directly to frontline workers. O…
Business value Subcontractors commonly communicate completion through an emailed service report or a message describing the work performed…
Business value Subcontractors commonly communicate completion through an emailed service report or a message describing the work performed…
Upload skill (.md file) in Brand Kit and use within PPT Copilot GA date: October CY2026
Federated Copilot connectors (MCP type) currently let Microsoft 365 Copilot read data from third-party services in real time. With this up…
Local inferencing expands Microsoft Copilot’s sovereign controls by enabling AI inferencing for supported Copilot interactions to occur wi…
Express face enrollment makes it easier for users to create a face profile in Teams by using their camera during eligible meetings, after …
Some existing retention policies scoped to Microsoft Teams may currently also apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions. As part of an u…
Copilot Cowork makes it easy to delegate work. Describe the outcome you want and Cowork automatically grounds the work in your emails, mee…
Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them…
Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them…
Get answers without leaving search. As you type in the Teams search bar, you'll see an option to ask Copilot alongside search results. You…
We’re introducing the new readiness for Microsoft Copilot and data explorer experiences in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Managem…
Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention (DLP) policies will support browser inline protection for a significantly broader se…
Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly within preview tab and agent history for their preview/testing…
Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly within Monitor tab at both a per-agent level and an estimated …
Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly associated with their evaluations, including a breakdown of us…
Edit with Copilot in Word is now available to users in Office 365 GCC, enabling government customers to work with Copilot as a co-creator …
Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files is use…
The SharePoint FAQ web part will provide a standard, non-AI experience for manually creating, editing, and managing FAQs. The AI-assisted …
Instead of opening Copilot Chat every time you want to use Copilot to draft a message, this change introduces an inline chat component tha…
Customers can now view value insights in the Agent 365 Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics). These insights help busin…
The new Meeting Shared Files feature allows users to add relevant files and links to their meeting for easy access and to automatically sh…
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is expanding to Microsoft Cowork, enabling data security admins to use a single policy across…
Copilot Studio is evolving to an app-first agent creation experience. Makers start with the application their agent will work with and con…
Copilot Studio agents can now render rich, interactive UI inline using MCP Apps, an extension of the Model Context Protocol. When an agent…
Microsoft Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics are coming to Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High), providing eligible o…
Copilot Chat will soon be available across chats, channels, calls, and meetings, helping users stay informed and catch up quickly. GA date…
This update is meant to bridge the experience of using Copilot Studio agents in M365 Copilot with the Copilot Chat experience. With these …
Copilot Studio now let’s makers require human approval before an agent runs specific tools. With a per-tool, per-agent toggle, any gated t…
We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service is now available in the GCC-High (GCC-H) environment! Microsoft 3…
A Copilot-generated canvas that turns workbook data into a polished, interactive view of key visualizations, metrics, and insights. As wor…