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In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Web
Users can now save calendar events as .ics in #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Web
Users can now seamlessly import calendar events from ICS files & preview them before importing in three cases: when dragging ICS files directly into the calendar surface, uploading an ICS file ('Add calendar' flow) ICS file via email #newoutlookforwindows.
GA date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Desktop
Copilot has been enhanced to interpret and ground responses using images embedded in files such as Word documents (.docx), PowerPoint presentations (.pptx), and PDFs. This capability allows Copilot to extract insights from visual elements like charts, diagrams, and screenshots, ensuring that answers are not only text-based but also informed by graphical context. By combining textual and visual understanding, Copilot delivers more comprehensive and contextually accurate responses for complex queries
GA date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Android, iOS, Mac, Web
Get answers to queries quickly with Copilot's concise AI summaries at the top of Outlook search results. Users can dig deeper by opening Copilot chat directly from the Copilot summary card.
GA date: July CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
Customers can precisely choose which AI app they should use to detect any of the Generative AI apps indicators. This is applicable to the following indicators: "Entering risky prompts in Copilot", "Receiving sensitive responses from Copilot", "Entering risky prompts in enterprise AI apps", and "Receiving sensitive responses from enterprise AI apps". Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac
You can now customize the meeting toolbar by pinning, unpinning, and reordering controls to match how you work. Raise Hand is grouped under Reactions to reduce mis-clicks, and Leave is clearly separated on the right. It may feel different at first, but it's designed to be faster and easier to use.
GA date: June CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Microsoft Viva, Web
Viva Glint survey takers will be able to use a streamlined version of Microsoft Copilot in the Glint survey taking experience to help them rewrite their comments, helping survey takers feel more confident about the feedback they're providing. By increasing perceived security through reducing identifiable writing patterns and minimizing the effort required to refine feedback, this experience can encourage greater participation, longer responses, and more candid comments, which can drive higher engagement and richer insights from surveys.
GA date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
Data Security Investigations (DSI) is introducing the ability to create custom examination focus areas. This feature will empower admins to tailor examination to their specific needs depending on the type of investigation being performed and the information they are most concerned with. This addition works alongside DSI's AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
Customers can now access and review the underlying risky prompt and response interactions generated by users during AI usage, even when user anonymization is enabled within Insider Risk Management investigations. This capability ensures that anonymized investigation workflows do not limit visibility into the contextual AI activity associated with potential risk. This enables analysts to effectively investigate detailed AI interactions across the organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Linux, Mac
Users can now report suspicious external users directly within Teams, alongside existing block actions. Reports are surfaced in the Teams admin center, giving admins visibility into potentially risky interactions and enabling them to investigate and take appropriate actions. This enhancement helps organizations respond faster to phishing, impersonation, and other external threats while leveraging end-user signals as an additional layer of protection.
GA date: June CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Microsoft Viva, Web
With the new control in Viva Glint, service administrators can now configure whether to retain or delete survey and relevant indefinable user data for users who are manually deleted from Glint or deleted via the signals received via Microsoft Entra. This will ensure that the consistency of previously generate Glint survey reports is retained and user data is handled in accordance with the relevant organizational policies. We will also process the delete signals received via Microsoft Entra and handle the corresponding user data retention or deletion as per our terms of service.
GA date: June CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Microsoft Viva, Web
This feature will introduce the capability for Glint service administrators to configure a data retention policy for their Glint instances based on the organizational policies. Any past survey cycles including engagement surveys, always-on surveys, lifecycle surveys and 360s will be retained/deleted based on this data retention configuration period.
GA date: June CY2026
17-Apr-2026 18:15
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
Data Security Investigations now delivers proactive AI insights within the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) experience. When DSPM identifies potential data exfiltration, DSI automatically analyzes the flagged content against risk dimensions like intellectual property, financial data, and credentials. Results are surfaced directly in DSPM, helping security teams identify sensitive data at risk before an incident occurs ' and take action in DSI when deeper investigation is needed.
GA date: June CY2026
16-Apr-2026 19:15
16-Apr-2026 19:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), OneDrive, iOS
OneDrive now makes it easier to find and access your SharePoint document libraries on your iPhone and iPad. Search for libraries by name, browse an updated Libraries view with recent and alphabetical sorting, and navigate directly to the site's default document library for ease of access. Whether you're on the go or working remotely, you can quickly locate and open organizational content that matters to you.
GA date: June CY2026
16-Apr-2026 19:15
16-Apr-2026 19:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
We're introducing notification capabilities and search improvements to Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Investigators will receive notifications when key investigation events occur, such as when AI jobs complete or when new data is added to scope. Search improvements include enhanced query building to more easily identify potentially impacted data
GA date: May CY2026
16-Apr-2026 19:15
16-Apr-2026 19:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
We're adding pre-built search templates to Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Templates provide pre-configured search queries for common data security scenarios, allowing investigators to scope an investigation in just a few clicks instead of manually building queries. Users select a template, provide minimal inputs (such as a user or site), and the search is configured and ready to run.
GA date: June CY2026
16-Apr-2026 19:15
16-Apr-2026 19:15
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Desktop, Mac
Organizers can now use breakout rooms in Teams meetings with up to 1,000 attendees, enabling more interactive sessions, smaller group discussions, and improved audience engagement without compromising scale or performance.
GA date: June CY2026
15-Apr-2026 18:45
17-Apr-2026 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams, Teams and Surface Devices
In addition to capturing real-time notes and meeting outcomes during scheduled or hybrid meetings, the Facilitator agent assists you with notes, decisions and actions for in-person meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows. Simply invite Facilitator with one tap of the room console. Meeting notes appear on the front of room display or touch board, are available via meeting recap when shared, and deleted if no one selected. Rest assured no data remains in the room. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: June CY2026
15-Apr-2026 18:45
15-Apr-2026 18:45
In development, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview, Web
With this update, the indicators belonging to cloud storage apps (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive), cloud services (Azure, Amazon Web Services) and Microsoft Fabric (Power BI, Lakehouse) will be supported as triggers in Data leaks policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the respective indicators are used to determine risk score.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026
15-Apr-2026 18:45
15-Apr-2026 18:45
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, iOS
Access Copilot directly when previewing files in Outlook. Tap the Copilot button to get smart suggestions, summaries, and answers about your documents without leaving the previewer. Get quick help understanding attachments and files right when you need it.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, Current Channel, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Excel, Desktop, Mac, Web
Plan Mode for Copilot in Excel helps users make complex changes with confidence by outlining a clear, step by step approach before anything in the workbook is updated. Users can review how Copilot intends to complete the task, see which data or capabilities may be used, and adjust the plan as needed'ensuring edits are intentional, transparent, and aligned with their goals before they're applied. This makes it easier to tackle multi step or high impact tasks while staying in control of every change.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Android
When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees.
GA date: June CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Web
When users have more than one Copilot-enabled account added to new Outlook, the Copilot side pane in Calendar will include an account dropdown that makes it clear which Copilot-enabled account you're using and lets you switch accounts without relying on Outlook UI's account context.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
With this feature, data officers can now complete their coverage story by now embedding hyperlinks within toast messages for the Edge browser. When this rule is triggered, the end user will see a toast with a customized title and message with a hyperlink. This feature is useful when organizations need to direct users to a specific resource or a repository for more specific instruction (e.g. internal policy SharePoint site).
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview, Web
Currently admins can set Purview DLP policies to protect sensitive data from being sent to any Generative AI apps, users get blocked from sending their prompts to LLM when this is triggered and stops their workflow. This new add-on to the feature shows a new UI that will give users the option to be redirected to M365 Copilot which will open and navigate to this M365 Copilot tab and allow them to send the same prompt there.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Purview, Web
Microsoft Purview Endpoint data loss prevention is expanding coverage to Copilot + PCs initially to support Recall snapshots and determining whether policies exist to prevent capture of windows containing restricted sensitivity labels and Sensitive information types (SITs). Purview admins will author Endpoint DLP custom policies to integrate with Windows Copilot + PC Recall setup by Intune admins for Copilot + PC devices exclusively.
GA date: May CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), OneDrive, iOS
The OneDrive Shared view on iPhone and iPad now features a streamlined two-tab layout. The "With you" tab shows files others have shared with you, while the "By you" tab displays files you've shared. Quickly find shared content with new sorting options and file type filters, plus see recent sharing and editing activity at a glance.
GA date: June CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
15-Apr-2026 19:00
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Microsoft Teams, Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Teams and Surface Devices, Web
We are updating the default profanity filter setting for live captions from On to Off across Teams meetings, calls, events, and Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) devices to improve accessibility and align with EU requirements. This change will only affect users who have never configured their live captions profanity filter preference. Users who have already set their preference will keep their current setting. As a result, some users may begin seeing unfiltered profanity in live captions by default after this rollout. Users can update this preference in settings at any time.
GA date: June CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
16-Apr-2026 19:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Android, iOS
If you're unable to attend a meeting, you can select Follow as your response to help you stay informed of the meeting events. Following a meeting reminds the organizer to record the meeting and alert you to any follow-up items.
GA date: June CY2026
14-Apr-2026 19:00
14-Apr-2026 19:00
