On March 18, 2026, we published the 2026 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Role-based Copilot offerings which is a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between April 2026 through September 2026. The new features and enhancements provide you with significant capabilities to help transform your business using our applications.
We are announcing the ability to define critical questions in evaluation criteria in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This feature will reach general availability on April 17, 2026.
We are announcing the ability to assign the Analytics Viewer role to an agent, allowing agent owners to share an agent with a user as an analyst, granting limited read-only access to the analytics page in Microsoft Copilot Studio. This feature will reach general availability on March 31, 2026.
We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
Microsoft Lists will be supported as a knowledge source for custom agents in SharePoint and OneDrive starting late March 2026. Agents can answer questions using list data, but only one list can be used per agent. Users need appropriate permissions and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Publishing new or updated InfoPath forms in SharePoint Online will be blocked after May 18, 2026, with full retirement of InfoPath Forms Service on July 14, 2026. Existing forms remain usable. Organizations should assess usage and migrate to Power Apps, Power Automate, or Microsoft Forms before the deadline.
Microsoft Defender XDR will integrate AI-generated summaries and categorizations for DLP alerts via the Microsoft Purview Data Security Triage Agent, improving alert triage. Deployment starts April 2026 (preview) and August 2026 (general). Agent management remains in Purview; DLP policies and user impact remain unchanged.
Microsoft Edge for Business will support cross-tenant Intune Mobile Application Management (MAM) policies, enabling data protection on devices managed by different tenants. This opt-in feature, rolling out from February to April 2026, secures corporate data without extra enrollment or disrupting user experience.
OneDrive for macOS is getting a redesigned Activity Center with a cleaner, more intuitive interface aligned to macOS conventions. It improves sync status visibility, accessibility, and error handling. The update rolls out automatically worldwide in April 2026, requiring no admin or user action.
Organizations can now manually apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Allowing admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage communities. End users in Engage will be able to then manually apply labels to communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls.
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