{ "generatedAt": "2026-09-16T15:15:48.385Z", "source": "https://www.microsoft.com/releasecommunications/api/v2/m365/rss", "from": "2026-09-01", "count": 23, "items": [ { "id": "571396", "title": "Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Expanded inline protection for unmanaged apps in Edge for Business", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571396", "description": "Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention (DLP) policies will support browser inline protection for a significantly broader set of unmanaged generative AI apps in Edge for Business. Admins can use existing Purview policy experiences to detect and protect sensitive data shared through supported browser activities, helping extend consistent data security controls across more destinations. GA date: December CY2026 Preview date: November CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Preview", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Purview", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "571299", "title": "Microsoft Teams: Ask Copilot from Search on Mobile", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571299", "description": "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 can also select Ask Copilot from the search results page to turn your query into a Copilot conversation, helping you quickly find information, get answers, and ask follow-up questions in context. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Teams", "Android", "iOS" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "571196", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Monitor tab", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571196", "description": "Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly within Monitor tab at both a per-agent level and an estimated breakdown of those costs across the agents lifecylce. This will allow makers to see costs distributed across activities such as authoring, testing, evaluations, and production usage, helping connect overall consumption to specific actions and experiences. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "571195", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Agent Evaluations", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571195", "description": "Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly associated with their evaluations, including a breakdown of usage for eval generation, test runs and model grading/judgement. Makers can see the costs as they test, iterate, and review conversations, making usage transparent throughout the development lifecycle. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "571194", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Preview Chat and History", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571194", "description": "Now makers will have clear visibility into their consumption costs directly within preview tab and agent history for their preview/testing usage as well as all every historical run. Makers can see the costs as they test, iterate, and review conversations, making usage costs transparent throughout the development experience. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "571157", "title": "Microsoft Purview: DSPM-Copilot Readiness and Data Explorer", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=571157", "description": "We’re introducing the new readiness for Microsoft Copilot and data explorer experiences in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). These new capabilities provide data security teams with greater visibility into their organization’s data security posture and help them assess risks, investigate findings, and prioritize remediation. The readiness for Microsoft Copilot experience in Purview DSPM helps organizations assess and improve their data readiness for Microsoft Copilot. It brings together insights into sensitive data exposure, oversharing, and protection coverage, helping security teams identify risks and assess progress toward a more secure Microsoft Copilot deployment. The new data explorer experience in Purview DSPM provides a centralized investigation experience that helps organizations understand where sensitive data exists across sites, review site-level access, and explore relevant data through preset views. It brings together sites, sensitive data, permissions, and preset views, to support more efficient investigations and reduce context switching. GA date: January CY2027 Preview date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Preview", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Purview", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "570438", "title": "PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Web)", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570438", "description": "Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them when work is complete or requires attention. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "PowerPoint", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "570437", "title": "PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Windows Desktop)", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570437", "description": "Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them when work is complete or requires attention. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:36 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "PowerPoint", "Desktop" ], "updated": "2026-09-15T23:00:36Z" }, { "id": "570277", "title": "Word: Copilot edit mode is available to users in Office 365 GCC", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570277", "description": "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 directly in your document to create, refine, and transform documents more efficiently. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:10:10 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "GCC", "GCC High", "DoD", "Word", "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-11T22:10:10Z" }, { "id": "570469", "title": "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570469", "description": "Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files is user's working files — such as scanned contracts in Word, screenshots of tables in Excel, or whiteboard photos in PowerPoint — content that was previously difficult to search and find. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:01:27 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-10T23:01:27Z" }, { "id": "570647", "title": "SharePoint: Changes to the FAQ web part authoring experience", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570647", "description": "The SharePoint FAQ web part will provide a standard, non-AI experience for manually creating, editing, and managing FAQs. The AI-assisted FAQ creation and import will move to the Copilot in SharePoint authoring experience, where authors can use natural-language prompts and selected grounding sources to generate FAQ content that is saved to the compatible FAQ web part. Existing FAQ web parts and their content will continue to render without migration. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:36:54 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "GCC", "SharePoint", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-09T22:36:54Z" }, { "id": "570440", "title": "Outlook: Inline chat for email drafting", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570440", "description": "Instead of opening Copilot Chat every time you want to use Copilot to draft a message, this change introduces an inline chat component that streamlines the process and lets you interact with Copilot without opening the sidebar. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:36:54 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Outlook", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-09T22:36:54Z" }, { "id": "570427", "title": "Microsoft Teams: Meeting Shared Files", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570427", "description": "The new Meeting Shared Files feature allows users to add relevant files and links to their meeting for easy access and to automatically share that content with all meeting participants. AI in the meeting, like the Facilitator agent, uses these files for targeted grounding to answer questions and enhance skill functionality. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:57:21 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Targeted Release", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Teams", "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)", "Desktop", "Mac", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-09T22:36:54Z" }, { "id": "570847", "title": "Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent value insights in Agent 365 Dashboard", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570847", "description": "Customers can now view value insights in the Agent 365 Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights (Copilot Analytics). These insights help business leaders and change and adoption specialists understand not only whether agents are being used, but also the estimated assisted hours agents provide and the types of work contributing to that value. This update builds on the existing Agent 365 Dashboard adoption experience by connecting agent activity with a clearer view of the work agents support across the organization. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:57:21 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Preview", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Viva", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-08T22:57:21Z" }, { "id": "570845", "title": "Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Cowork", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570845", "description": "Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is expanding to Microsoft Cowork, enabling data security admins to use a single policy across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cowork. The integration helps protect sensitive AI interactions by preventing the use of labeled knowledge sources, blocking prompts that contain supported sensitive information types, and restricting sensitive prompts from being sent to Bing for web search. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:57:21 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Preview", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Purview", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-08T22:57:21Z" }, { "id": "570433", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Deliver rich interactive app experiences in Copilot Studio agents", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570433", "description": "Copilot Studio agents can now render rich, interactive UI inline using MCP Apps, an extension of the Model Context Protocol. When an agent calls a UI-enabled tool from a compatible MCP server, interactive experiences like sortable tables and drilldowns render directly in the conversation. Users can now explore and act on data without leaving the chat or switching tools. A plain-text fallback keeps the agent working on surfaces that can't render the UI, and makers get this simply by connecting a compliant MCP server. GA date: November CY2026 Preview date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:56:59 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Preview", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-02T22:56:59Z" }, { "id": "569474", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Introducing an App- and Intent-First Agent Creation Experience", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=569474", "description": "Copilot Studio is evolving to an app-first agent creation experience. Makers start with the application their agent will work with and configure the capabilities it needs. This update brings tools and knowledge into a more unified experience, simplifying how agents are created and configured. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:56:59 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-02T22:56:59Z" }, { "id": "569214", "title": "Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for chats, channels, calls, and meetings in GCC, GCC High, and DoD", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=569214", "description": "Copilot Chat will soon be available across chats, channels, calls, and meetings, helping users stay informed and catch up quickly. GA date: October CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "GCC", "GCC High", "DoD", "Microsoft Teams", "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)", "Android", "Desktop", "iOS", "Mac", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-02T22:56:59Z" }, { "id": "570435", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Streamlining experiences from Copilot Studio Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570435", "description": "This update is meant to bridge the experience of using Copilot Studio agents in M365 Copilot with the Copilot Chat experience. With these updates, agent responses in Copilot Chat will look (similar formatting, compressed chain of thought), feel (smoother streaming, resume/retry and voice dictation) and behave (deliver clickable citations and tool execution traces) very similarly to Copilot Chat responses themselves. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-01T22:59:38Z" }, { "id": "570434", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio: Enabling makers to require human approval for tool calls", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570434", "description": "Copilot Studio now let’s makers require human approval before an agent runs specific tools. With a per-tool, per-agent toggle, any gated tool call pauses and shows an approval request describing what the agent intends to do, so a person can approve, approve for the session, or deny before the action runs. This gives organizations a deterministic guardrail for high-stakes or sensitive operations like sending emails, closing tickets, or processing payments, independent of the agent's instructions. Approval requests appear inline in the channel where the agent is deployed, including Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-01T22:59:38Z" }, { "id": "570431", "title": "Microsoft 365: Organizational Data Service is now available in GCC-High", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570431", "description": "We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service is now available in the GCC-High (GCC-H) environment! Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service enables rapid ingestion of organizational/HR data through connectors from multiple HRIS systems using a single unified ingestion point. This service also provides organizational data for use across Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 apps to power various features with robust data quality framework that detects, communicates, and provides solutions for data quality issues before data is used. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "GCC High", "Microsoft 365", "Mac" ], "updated": "2026-09-01T22:59:38Z" }, { "id": "570428", "title": "Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics in GCC-High", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570428", "description": "Microsoft Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics are coming to Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High), providing eligible organizations with privacy-protected, role-based analytics experiences to help them understand Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, usage, and impact. Viva Insights also provides data-driven behavioral insights into how employees collaborate, helping organizations improve productivity and wellbeing within the GCC High environment. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "General Availability", "GCC High", "Microsoft Viva", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-01T22:59:38Z" }, { "id": "569424", "title": "Excel: Excel canvas", "link": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=569424", "description": "A Copilot-generated canvas that turns workbook data into a polished, interactive view of key visualizations, metrics, and insights. As workbook data changes, it automatically updates to reflect the latest information. Users can modify the canvas by chatting with Copilot. GA date: September CY2026", "pubDate": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:59:38 Z", "categories": [ "In development", "Current Channel", "General Availability", "Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)", "Excel", "Desktop", "Web" ], "updated": "2026-09-01T22:59:38Z" } ] }