Unofficial update digest
An unofficial daily digest that organizes public Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent Builder updates.
Planner in Outlook brings all your tasks, plans, and the new Planner Agent directly into your inbox, so you can manage work where you already work.
Enables programmatic access to first‑party and tenant‑defined declarative agents via the Work IQ endpoint, allowing applications to trigger specialized agents for domain‑specific tasks within broader workflows.
We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Co...
Microsoft Copilot Studio is enhancing the Evaluations experience to help makers better understand agent quality and behavior. New capabilities include richer evaluation explanations, agent reasoning traces, cited knowledge sources, evaluation run comparison, support for larger datasets, customizable test generation, a...
Save AI-filters generated by the Planner Agent for future use on your plans.
Planner in Outlook brings all your tasks, plans, and the new Planner Agent directly into your inbox, so you can manage work where you already work.
Enables programmatic access to first‑party and tenant‑defined declarative agents via the Work IQ endpoint, allowing applications to trigger specialized agents for domain‑specific tasks within broader workflows.
We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Co...
Microsoft Copilot Studio is enhancing the Evaluations experience to help makers better understand agent quality and behavior. New capabilities include richer evaluation explanations, agent reasoning traces, cited knowledge sources, evaluation run comparison, support for larger datasets, customizable test generation, a...
Save AI-filters generated by the Planner Agent for future use on your plans.
You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
M365 Copilot now supports code blocks, which lets you preview code, charts, diagrams, and more directly inline while using Chat. Previously, users could preview code side-by-side in a code canvas.
We're upgrading our topic assignment pipeline to be powered by Copilot, delivering significantly improved accuracy in categorizing survey comments into relevant topics. Updated August 18, 2026: Rollout timing of this feature is now planned for end of August through early September. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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 Android. Simply invite Facilitator with one tap of the room console. Meeting notes appear on the front of room...
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...
This feature introduces confidence scoring and reasoning trace explainability into the Data Security Triage Agent in DLP, addressing a critical trust gap reported across multiple customers. Today, without transparency into why the agent makes a decision or how confident it is, analysts are forced to fall back to manua...