Copilot Weekly10 to 18 September 2026

Status change: in development -> generally available. Copilot Analytics adds deeper Cowork adoption and impact insights, reachable from the new AI Cost dashboard and the Copilot dashboard, with export and an AI cost query for analysts in Advanced Insights. The roadmap lists GA July 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant. Check who holds analytics access before these views reach leaders.

Status change: in development -> rolling out. Microsoft 365 Copilot users can share a full chat session or a single response through a link; recipients open a read-only view and can continue from it in their own Copilot chat. The roadmap lists GA August 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant. Check that link-sharing of Copilot output fits existing data handling guidance.

Brand Kit brings an organisation's templates, imagery, icons and fonts into Copilot's PowerPoint creation, with a stricter brand adherence mode for regulated decks. Skills package repeatable presentation workflows: prebuilt Prepare for Questions and Review Presentation, personal uploads, and administrator-published skills for users, groups or the whole organisation. Both are generally available with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Status change: in development -> generally available. Search results drawn from Copilot connectors gain rich entity representation in the Microsoft 365 Copilot search experience; the roadmap lists GA September 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant. Connector owners should check how their content renders in results.

Now confirmed by a public roadmap entry. Teams users enrol a voice profile by speaking during a meeting after opting in under Teams settings; the profile enables voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in meeting rooms and transcripts, and Microsoft 365 Copilot meeting recaps and insights. Admins can switch the feature off; the roadmap lists GA June 2026.

A day-level Copilot adoption Power BI report in Copilot Analytics reflects the most recent Copilot activity for analysts; the roadmap lists preview July 2026 and GA September 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant.

Status change: in development -> rolling out. SharePoint adds AI citations analytics that show how often a document, news post or page is referenced in Copilot and agent responses, with site-level aggregation. The roadmap lists target GA August 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant.

Status change: in development -> generally available. The Copilot dashboard in Copilot Analytics adds power user insights that show who is building a habit of using Copilot; the roadmap lists GA August 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant.

The roadmap entry was updated on 15 Sep 2026; the entry itself dates from 18 Nov 2025 and no other source corroborates a change, so the update may not be new availability. Users on Windows can end a Microsoft 365 Copilot voice session by saying goodbye, pairing with the Hey Copilot wake word; the roadmap lists GA December 2025.

The roadmap entry was updated on 16 Sep 2026; the entry itself dates from 22 Oct 2025 and no other source corroborates a change, so the update may not be new availability. The entry describes adding references to a Copilot Notebook from Quick Access in Search on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app; it lists GA November 2025.

Grok models from SpaceXAI reach Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint as a preview for eligible Frontier customers, behind a dedicated admin setting that is off by default. SpaceXAI joins Microsoft's Online Services Subprocessor List, and Frontier customers in the EU, EFTA and the UK are excluded during the preview. Settle the opt-in position before users ask.

Status change: in development -> generally available. Users in GCC-M can use custom engine agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot; the roadmap lists GA August 2026 for the GCC cloud.

Copilot will notify users when PowerPoint agent work completes or needs attention, so they can leave PowerPoint, switch devices or go offline while it runs; the roadmap lists target GA October 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant on the web.

Copilot will notify users when PowerPoint agent work completes or needs attention, so they can leave PowerPoint, switch devices or go offline while it runs; the roadmap lists target GA October 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant on Windows desktop.

Published apps from Copilot Studio or Copilot Cowork are inventoried in the Microsoft 365 admin center, where admins can block, disable, restrict sharing or retire them. Build and runtime meter separately through Copilot Credits, with per-user credit caps set uniformly or by group. App creation is on by default; one admin center setting turns either path off.

Makers will see the consumption cost of each evaluation, broken down across evaluation generation, test runs and model grading; the roadmap lists this as in development for worldwide multi-tenant.

Makers will see consumption costs per agent in the Monitor tab, with an estimated breakdown across the agent lifecycle; the roadmap lists this as in development for worldwide multi-tenant.

Makers will see consumption costs for preview and testing usage in the preview tab and agent history, covering every historical run; the roadmap lists this as in development for worldwide multi-tenant.

The roadmap entry was updated on 15 Sep 2026; the entry itself dates from 14 Apr 2026 and no other source corroborates a change, so the update may not be new availability. Purview Endpoint DLP extends to Copilot+ PCs for Recall snapshots: policies block capture of windows holding restricted labels or sensitive information types (GA May 2026, US government clouds).

Microsoft 365 G7 is the Frontier Suite for government in GCC, bundling Microsoft 365 G5, the Entra Suite, Microsoft 365 Copilot, agent tooling and Agent 365. Microsoft says the suite and Agent 365 will be available for GCC customers to purchase on 1 October, with capabilities expanding in phases; no pricing is stated.

Purview Data Security Posture Management adds a readiness for Microsoft Copilot view (sensitive data exposure, oversharing, protection coverage) and a data explorer that brings sites, sensitive data, permissions and preset views into one investigation surface. The roadmap lists preview September 2026 and target GA January 2027 for worldwide multi-tenant.

Microsoft has cancelled the Chrome extension entry for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Search: marked no longer accurate and slated for removal; target GA had been April 2026. The roadmap entry was updated on 15 Sep 2026; the entry itself dates from 20 Nov 2025 and no other source corroborates a change, so the update may not be new availability.

Now confirmed by a public roadmap entry. Copilot Notebooks in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS organise related chats, generated content and references into a persistent workspace whose accumulated context grounds later responses. The roadmap lists target GA September 2026 for worldwide multi-tenant.

Edit with Copilot in Word, the co-creator mode for creating, refining and transforming documents, extends to Office 365 GCC users; despite its title, the roadmap entry keeps the status in development with target GA October 2026 for GCC, GCC High and DoD.

Teams on mobile will offer an Ask Copilot option in the search bar and on the results page, turning a query into a Copilot conversation with follow-up questions in context; the roadmap lists target GA November 2026.