Copilot Weekly13 to 19 July 2026

Insights into AI spend (Copilot credit usage) at a group or team level will be available in Viva Insights as a dashboard and in Advanced insights. The services in scope of this release are Cowork and Work IQ API. The dashboard experience is available to managers with at least 5 direct reports (scoped access), the Insights analysts, and Global administrators and is enabled by default to ensure immediate access to usage-based cost insights. For users to be able to use Cowork or WorkIQ API, your tenant must have usage-based billing setup via Cost Management in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Leader access to tenant-wide data is out of scope for this release. The same insights will be available for Insights Analysts and Global Administrators in Advanced Insights.

Engage content from private communities and events will be used as grounding source for M365 Copilot. When a user queries in M365 Copilot, they will only be able to see content they are privileged to access.

Copilot will be able to find meetings based on topics or keywords from relevant data like meeting body, chat and transcription.

Copilot connectors enable organizations to integrate content from other external data sources into Microsoft Graph, improving Copilot’s intelligence, contextual responses, and content discoverability

Users can upload a brand guidelines document to automatically generate brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, replacing manual brand kit setup.

Buildings, rooms and desks that are added to the Places directory will have new profile cards, accessible from Copilot Chat and across other Microsoft 365 entry points.

Microsoft Edge v.149 updates spacing, corners, fonts, and default colors to align the browser UI with Copilot and Bing. Browser functionality and security settings are unaffected. Roadmap ID: 559993.

This enables users to export row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis.

Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates -- such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents -- ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Users can then generate the right document every time by just filling out the form, without manual formatting, versioning issues, or compliance risk, simplifying high-volume, structured document workflows across the organization.

Copilot in SharePoint now supports plugins from your enterprise store. A plugin can bundle skills, MCP servers, and other capabilities that extend what Copilot can do. Any plugin made available to your organization, whether installed tenant-wide by an admin or added by you, works directly in Copilot in SharePoint, all governed by your M365 admin. For example, your organization can publish a company-wide accessibility plugin once and have it work consistently across all agentic products, including Copilot in SharePoint, so everyone gets the same accessible experience wherever they work.

Create your own personal skills in Copilot in SharePoint and use them anywhere you work. Personal skills travel with you across SharePoint sites and OneDrive—so a skill like document generation works everywhere without recreating it per site. You own your skills, saved as a markdown file in your OneDrive.

Search, chat, and explore the web from one search box with Copilot-suggested actions and curated work content to help your users get things done faster on the Copilot new tab page. Users will see upgraded Copilot new tab page functionality and features.

You will now be able to access different Copilot settings directly in classic Outlook for Windows.

Agents built with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are now available in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Catalyst through the Copilot pane.

Users can submit agents built in Agent Builder to the Agent Store's 'Built by your org' section. Submissions go through admin review and approval in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Roadmap ID: 557173.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now integrated in Microsoft Forms, including enabling the Surveys Agent from within Forms. Surveys Agent provides specialized capabilities to help with your form - from recommending and applying improvements to your form or quiz, to helping draft and send invitations, to analyzing your results. Surveys Agent is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and can be accessed by clicking the "Copilot" icon in Forms.

Agent Builder now supports using a SharePoint list as a knowledge source for agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Makers can ground an agent in structured list data so users can ask questions and get responses based on information stored in a selected SharePoint list. For this release, each agent can reference one SharePoint list with up to 20,000 items, alongside other knowledge source types. Support for list attachments and lookup columns is not yet available.

Introducing built-in Planner Agent chat with natural language Q&A, smart task discovery, and in-plan task management.

Express mode ensures agents and apps receive timely and reliable responses by dramatically accelerating flow run times. This reduces flow failures, improves user experience, and eliminates costly interruptions caused by timeout issues. Organizations benefit from more dependable automations, higher adoption, and smoother operational workflows.

For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request. #copilotcontrolsystem

Admins can deploy and manage Federated Copilot Connectors (MCP-based connectors) from the Connectors tab under Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center. These connectors use user-level authentication at runtime, avoiding organizational indexing while preserving source permissions.

Support for hierarchical ACLs for SNOW, Confluence, Jira connectors.

Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.

Improves eDiscovery workflows for Loop and Copilot pages by enabling full indexing of page content for keyword search within review sets and adding HTML format support for export from search.

Provide insights on Copilots and AI Apps usage and recommend retention policies for customers to govern their Copilots and AI App interactions.

Customers can now access their Agent 365 data through the Agent Dashboard in Copilot Analytics (Insights), enabling leaders to understand activity across all agents registered through Agent 365. Customers with Agent 365 and Copilot will now see the Agent 365 Dashboard with the ability to view historical data in Agent Dashboard.

Updated July 16, 2026: We have decided not to move forward with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., 'What was the feedback per slide?'), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., 'Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.

AI citations analytics will help you track the usage of SP documents, news and pages through copilot and AI agents. You will be able to see how often a page or a file is referenced in a copilot response. You can also get insights into SharePoint site content getting referenced in copilot responses aggregated at the site level.

This feature allows users to simply express their intention conversationally, and Copilot infers their intention and creates a scheduled prompt automatically. We are unfortunately unable to move forward with this feature. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Session and Response Sharing let Microsoft 365 Copilot users share Copilot chat content through a link. Session Sharing shares a full chat session, while Response Sharing shares a single Copilot response. The shared content opens as a read-only view, and recipients can continue from it in their own Copilot chat. This gives Copilot users an easier and more controlled way to share useful Copilot outputs with coworkers instead of copying and pasting. It helps teams reuse work, share context, and collaborate more efficiently while keeping sharing within organizational controls.

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.

After meeting recap is automatically generated in the translation language chosen during the meeting, users can continue to change the language of the meeting recap after its generated.

Understand who is building a habit using Copilot with the new power user insights in Copilot dashboard