We are announcing new Copilot hub settings that allow administrators to disable the AI features of Data entry, Data exploration, and Summary, and enable tenant admins to use environment group rules for managed environments. Rollout will begin on April 20, 2026, and will gradually be released over the next few weeks.
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.
Organizers can now use breakout rooms in Teams events with up to 1,000 attendees, enabling more interactive sessions, smaller group discussions, and improved audience engagement without compromising scale or performance.
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.
Microsoft Purview introduces a built-in migration tool in Unified Catalog for Data Governance Admins and Stewards to migrate classic glossary terms, templates, and relationships. Migration begins public preview in April 2026 and general availability in July 2026. Classic terms become read-only post-migration or switch.
Microsoft Teams will support CSV import for breakout room assignments starting May 2026, enabling organizers to bulk create rooms and pre-assign participants. The feature is enabled by default, requires no admin action, and allows modifications during meetings, improving setup efficiency for structured sessions.
Starting mid-May 2026, Microsoft Teams meetings with PowerPoint Live will let attendees select slide text and get private, on-demand Copilot explanations for terms or acronyms without disrupting the presenter. This feature is on by default for tenants with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) enabled.
Starting mid-May 2026, Agent Builder users can submit agents for admin review before publishing to the organization’s Agent Store catalog. Admins control approval, access, and deployment. Approved agents appear in the store for users to discover and install, with updates requiring reapproval. No pre-rollout action needed.
Microsoft Purview for agents, including DSPM – AI Observability and Insider Risk Management, will be generally available by late May 2026. It enables Microsoft 365 E7 or Agent 365 admins to monitor AI agent activity, assess risks, enforce governance, and manage insider risks with privacy controls, supporting compliance and security.
The Teams Reader role in the Teams admin center will gain expanded read-only visibility of Teams and channel management details via the admin center, PowerShell, and Microsoft Graph APIs starting late April 2026. No new edit permissions are granted, and no admin action is required before rollout.
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