Weekly briefing

Week 42 · 12 Oct – 18 Oct 2026 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.

All dated changes in this period

627 source records · 145 groups

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapMicrosoft 365 Copilot / Power Platform2 source records

Roadmap entry · 2 entries

Microsoft Dataverse: Activate Enterprise Data in Copilot - Create Dataverse agent users with Microsoft Entra agent identity
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Dataverse: Improved enterprise experiences in Power Platform - Enhance Dataverse record descriptions for Copilot /mention
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapMicrosoft 365 Roadmap

Power Pages: Design studio - Unify Power Pages authorization by merging web role with Dataverse security role

Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapPower BI

Power Pages: Design studio - Support Power BI embed token v2 for Power Pages

Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapPower Platform17 source records

Roadmap entry · 17 entries

Microsoft Dataverse: Build your low code hyperscale backend on Dataverse - Build your agentic flows with Dataverse SDK for Python
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Dataverse: Finance and operations cross application integration - Monitor data management framework with Azure Monitor Application Insights
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Dataverse: Improved enterprise experiences in Power Platform - Improve bulk delete user experience
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

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Microsoft Dataverse: Microsoft 365 collaboration - Discover, build, customize, and extend with management MCP server
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration: Security and compliance - Prevent sending sensitive data to Purview audit logs
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Apps: Access updated visuals for row summaries across forms and views
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Cloud flows - Share Process license capacity across workflows
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Desktop flows - Configure notifications for desktop flow checker in admin portal
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Desktop flows - Debug flows using variable default values
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Desktop flows - Encrypt and decrypt data with PGP
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Desktop flows - Measure time and cost savings for desktop flows
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Process mining - Analyze processes using object-centric process mining
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Process mining - Analyze your processes in the process intelligence experience
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Process mining - Create and visualize custom KPIs in the process intelligence experience
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Power Automate: Process mining - Enable Process Intelligence Studio in object-centric process mining
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
PowerApps: Building modern apps - Modernize model-driven apps with the header and navigation refresh feature
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
PowerApps: Building modern apps - Use CLI to discover, create, and wire connectors in code apps
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapSharePoint / Teams

Microsoft Teams: SharePoint app in Teams

Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

16 Oct 2026

RoadmapViva3 source records

Roadmap entry · 3 entries

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent 365 reporting availability for Microsoft platform agents
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements
Date moved earlier
General availability: December CY2026 → October CY2026

15 Oct 2026

Known issuesOutlook

[FIXED] Copilot buttons are missing in classic Outlook for Windows

Status: INVESTIGATING → FIXED · Classic Outlook known issues

Assessment context

Changed after ChangeIntel first saw it

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterPurview

MC1261587: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management - Hard delete OneDrive and SharePoint files with priority cleanup workflow

Message Center · Plan for change

Microsoft Purview

Assessment context

Microsoft marks it a major change

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterTeams8 source records

Message Center · Plan for change · 8 entries

MC1269864: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: New chat sections for muted and meeting chats
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
Assessment context
Microsoft marks it a major change
MC1409304: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Facilitator proactively detects and resolves knowledge gaps in meetings
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
Assessment context
Microsoft marks it a major change
MC1419798: (Updated) Microsoft Teams Rooms: Identify in-room participants with IntelliFrame people labels
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
Assessment context
Microsoft marks it a major change

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MC1479514: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Improved file sharing experience in external chats
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
Assessment context
Microsoft marks it a major change
MC1506734: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Video sharing from OneDrive in Teams events
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
Assessment context
Microsoft marks it a major change
MC1462921: (Updated) Calls popout into a new window on the browser to support multi-tasking and collaboration during a meeting
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Teams
MC1509796: Microsoft Teams: Enhanced channel meeting experience
Message Center · Stay informed
Microsoft Teams
MC1509801: Microsoft Teams: Customize file extensions blocked by Weaponizable File Protection
Message Center · Stay informed
Microsoft Teams

15 Oct 2026

RoadmapMicrosoft 365 Apps2 source records

Now rolling out · 2 entries

Excel: Excel canvas
Now rolling out
Status: InDevelopment → RollingOut
Assessment context
The feature started reaching tenants
Excel: Excel canvas
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap

15 Oct 2026

RoadmapMicrosoft 365 Copilot2 source records

Cancelled · 2 entries

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Agent Support in Copilot Notebooks
Cancelled
Status: InDevelopment → Cancelled
Assessment context
Microsoft cancelled the feature
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Export Copilot metrics in the Copilot Dashboard
Date moved later
General availability: October CY2026 → November CY2026
Assessment context
Target moved from October CY2026 to November CY2026

15 Oct 2026

RoadmapPurview

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – New Guided Experience to Diagnose and Resolve DLP Issues

Now rolling out

Status: InDevelopment → RollingOut

Assessment context

The feature started reaching tenants

15 Oct 2026

RoadmapTeams12 source records

Date moved later · 12 entries

Microsoft Teams: Express face enrollment
Date moved later
General availability: November CY2026 → December CY2026
Assessment context
Target moved from November CY2026 to December CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Facilitator detects and answers questions
Date moved later
General availability: November CY2026 → December CY2026
Assessment context
Target moved from November CY2026 to December CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Improved organization for muted and meeting chats
Now rolling out
Status: InDevelopment → RollingOut
Assessment context
The feature started reaching tenants

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Microsoft Teams: IntelliFrame people labels in Teams Rooms on Windows
Date moved later
General availability: November CY2026 → January CY2027
Assessment context
Target moved from November CY2026 to January CY2027
Microsoft Teams: Pop out calls into a new browser window
Now rolling out
Status: InDevelopment → RollingOut
Assessment context
The feature started reaching tenants
Microsoft Teams: Admin center - Intelligent insights for meeting quality
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars
Launched
Status: RollingOut → Launched
Microsoft Teams: Events in Meet app in Teams in GCC
Launched
Status: RollingOut → Launched
Microsoft Teams: Facilitator's enhanced protection skill can alert you to potential scams
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Teams: IntelliFrame people labels in Teams Rooms on Windows
Roadmap entry · Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Teams: Near-real-time detection of malicious QR codes in messages
Date moved earlier
General availability: December CY2026 → November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Organization Evaluation Score for Apps and Agents
Launched
Status: RollingOut → Launched

15 Oct 2026

RoadmapViva

Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements

Date moved later

General availability: October CY2026 → December CY2026

Assessment context

Target moved from October CY2026 to December CY2026

15 Oct 2026

Known issuesCommercial changes / Windows

Windows Desktop Operating System — Product Terms

Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

15 Oct 2026

Known issuesCommercial changes5 source records

Product Terms · 5 entries

Agent 365 — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA
Office LTSC 2021 end of support
Partner announcement · Microsoft Partner Center announcements
Privacy & Security Terms — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

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Product Terms publication — October 15, 2026
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms publications
Updated October CSP Pricelist
Partner announcement · Microsoft Partner Center announcements

15 Oct 2026

Updates and guidancePower BI3 source records

Product news · 3 entries

Databricks ADBC connector for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)
Product news · Power BI Updates Blog
Power BI September 2026 Feature Summary
Product news · Power BI Updates Blog
Power BI October 2026 Feature Summary
Product news · Power BI Updates Blog

15 Oct 2026

Updates and guidanceSharePoint

Introducing a team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents

Product news · SharePoint Blog

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterDynamics 365

MC1509121: Choose the data sources AI-powered Data Enrichment uses, including CRM notes

Message Center · Stay informed

Dynamics 365 Apps

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterExchange

MC1509800: Microsoft Outlook for Android: Multi-select and bulk actions in search results

Message Center · Stay informed

Exchange Online

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterMC1509789: Microsoft Edge: Browser-native XSLT will be disabled by default

MC1509789: Microsoft Edge: Browser-native XSLT will be disabled by default

Message Center · Plan for change

Microsoft 365 suite

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterMicrosoft 365 Apps3 source records

Message Center · Plan for change · 3 entries

MC1509797: Support for Office LTSC 2021 and additional apps ended on October 13, 2026
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft 365 apps, Project for the web
MC1509799: Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal plugins in Word and Cowork
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft 365 apps
MC1509803: Microsoft PowerPoint: Publish and unpublish controls for official brand kits
Message Center · Stay informed
Microsoft 365 apps

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterPlanner2 source records

Message Center · Stay informed · 2 entries

MC1443514: (Updated) Microsoft Planner: Planner Agent chat in basic plans
Message Center · Stay informed
Planner
MC1474110: (Updated) Microsoft Planner: Capacity view
Message Center · Stay informed
Planner

15 Oct 2026

Message CenterViva3 source records

Message Center · Plan for change · 3 entries

MC1155311: (Updated) Viva Engage: Agents in Viva Engage communities Public Preview
Message Center · Plan for change
Microsoft Viva
MC1173208: (Updated) Microsoft Copilot Analytics: Data export public preview for Copilot metrics in the Copilot dashboard
Message Center · Stay informed
Microsoft Viva
MC1187781: (Updated) Viva Engage: Community feeds improvements
Message Center · Stay informed
Microsoft Viva

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