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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Tailor Copilot to your specific business terminology",
        "Investment area":"Administration and extension experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you want chat systems to understand not only general inquiries but also your organization’s unique language and business nuances. You need a solution that accurately interprets industry terminology and delivers relevant, context-specific responses. Consistency and accuracy in responses are essential, making the chat system a dependable tool for daily operations. With a glossary solution in Microsoft Copilot Studio, admins can integrate business-specific terms so you receive precise answers to your questions.</p> <p>A glossary helps Copilot understand and use business-specific terms accurately, ensuring responses are consistently relevant to your context. This feature improves efficiency in closing deals because you can easily access information with familiar terminology. You can address concerns, gather relevant facts, and answer questions quickly, which streamlines the path to a successful deal.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With this feature, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Define a glossary with terms and logic that fit your business. When you define a glossary, you get greater control over how Copilot interprets your queries. You can define business-specific terms, customize ownership models, fine-tune CRM queries, and set guidelines for terms like \"top,\" \"best,\" and \"we.\"</li> <li>Access the glossary across all skills, including custom skills, so you get consistent understanding and responses across different contexts.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"12/01/2024",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"5b363331-3d9d-ef11-8a69-6045bda803cc",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get new features faster with monthly channel",
        "Investment area":"Administration and extension experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Organizations that rely on semiannual releases for major changes might limit the speed of innovation and delay access to newer features. When you enable this feature, you enable the Sales Hub app for the monthly release channel, so you can update it every month. This frequent update cycle ensures the Sales Hub app gets the latest generally available features as quickly as possible. With this feature, you stay at the forefront of innovation and continuously improve your workflows.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With this feature, the out-of-the-box Sales Hub app that Microsoft ships uses the monthly channel instead of the semiannual channel. With this change, you get new features every month instead of waiting for the semiannual releases. For more information about features that ship in the monthly channel, see <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/released-versions/common-data-service/unified-interface-monthly-releases\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Monthly channel release notes for model-driven apps</a>.</p> <p>Release channel configuration provides three options: <strong>Auto</strong>, <strong>Monthly</strong>, and <strong>Semiannual</strong>. Currently, the default value for the Sales Hub app is <strong>Auto</strong>. With 2024 release wave 2, the release channel for the Sales Hub app changes from <strong>Auto</strong> to <strong>Monthly</strong>. To continue using the semiannual channel, set the app release channel to <strong>Semiannual</strong> before October 2024. To enable the monthly channel for other model-driven apps, set it manually.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"08/12/2024",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/21/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"0eaaff2b-cd56-ef11-a317-0022482822d9",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Transform decision-making with sales research agent",
        "Investment area":"Business research",
        "Business value":"<p>As a sales leader, it can be hard to see the state of your business. You might find yourself chasing your team for updates and spending days gathering data without getting the full picture.</p> <p>With the sales research agent in Dynamics 365 Sales, you can use natural language to start a dialog with your data or pick from AI-suggested topics. This dialog helps you gain a deep understanding of the sales performance of your team, territory, and product portfolio.</p> <p>You can access the research workspace directly from within Dynamics 365 Sales, where you're already connected to your sales data. When you ask a research question, the agent creates a research plan. It then gathers, analyzes, and transforms data into meaningful research outputs. These outputs are tailored to your context, business domain knowledge, and deep understanding of the business data. You receive comprehensive, AI-generated research blueprints.</p> <p>The sales research agent brings back not just answers but suggestions for where to go next. You can effortlessly build multibranch research journeys and zoom into any research finding to explore the output from different angles using the AI cursor, a new AI-powered, context-aware approach to engaging you in the research journey. You can even augment your research by uploading data files from external sources such as HR or e-commerce to provide additional context and richer outcomes by building a comprehensive understanding of your business.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a sales manager, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Create multibranch research journeys over your Dynamics 365 Sales data and augment it with any data from local files (Excel, PDF) for a comprehensive view of your business.</li> <li>Use AI-suggested, prebuilt topics that are optimized for your role to get started or ask your own questions using natural language to seek insights into complex business problems.</li> <li>Use the AI cursor to click anywhere on the canvas to start a conversation, zoom into any research finding, change a visualization, or add more data.</li> <li>Go behind the scenes to see the reasoning behind the research outcomes.</li> <li>Save your workspaces for later use, update with new data, and regenerate blueprints or new research findings.</li> </ul> <p>The sales research agent is initially available as part of the AI Accelerator for Sales offer only.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"09/30/2025"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Explore complex sales insights with Sales Research Agent",
        "Investment area":"Business research",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales Research Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales empowers you to explore complex business questions through natural language conversations with your data. It leverages a multimodal, multimodel, and multi-agent architecture to reason over intricate, customized schemas with deep sales domain expertise. The agent delivers novel, decision-ready insights through narrative explanations and rich visualizations tailored to the specific business context.</p> <p>For sales leaders, this means the ability to self-serve on real-time trustworthy analysis, spanning CRM and other domains, which previously took many people days or weeks to compile, with access to deeper insights enabled by the power of AI on pipeline, revenue attainment, and other critical topics.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a sales manager, you can now:</p> <ul> <li>Create multibranch research journeys across Dynamics 365 Sales data and Fabric lakehouse data, and enrich analysis with local files such as Excel and PDF.</li> <li>Start quickly with AI‑suggested, role‑optimized research topics, or ask your own questions using natural language.</li> <li>Use the AI cursor to interact directly on the canvas—start conversations, drill into findings, adjust visualizations, or add new data sources.</li> <li>View the reasoning behind research outcomes to understand how insights were derived.</li> <li>Save research workspaces, refresh them with new data, and regenerate blueprints or research findings as your business evolves.</li> <li>Define custom business functions with your own schemas, acronyms, and domain context to tailor analysis to your organization.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"03/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/09/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Streamline sales process with sales document summary",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>As a sales professional, you sift through lengthy documents to understand the customer’s needs and preferences across multiple systems. This time-consuming task leads to decreased productivity and potentially missed opportunities. With the ability to automatically summarize important details from lengthy documents including proposals, reports, and agreements, you can save time and focus on building relationships with customers and closing deals. The sales document summarization feature can improve the quality of customer interactions by ensuring that you have a comprehensive understanding of customer needs according to the BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline) framework.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, use Copilot chat to:</p> <ul> <li>Get a summary of the documents stored in SharePoint that you can access.</li> <li>Get a summary of the documents associated with your contact, opportunity, lead, and account.</li> <li>Use the summary to understand the budget, authority (decision maker), need, and timeline based on various documents.</li> </ul> <p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gNwIvDOAA\" data-linktype=\"external\">Watch the demo</a> to learn how to use the feature.</p> <p>This feature is automatically enabled with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. For more information about enabling Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, see <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/enable-setup-copilot\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Turn on and set up Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales</a>.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"11/05/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"539d4a44-e0e5-ee11-904d-002248255fa9",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Nov 4, 2024)","Australia (Nov 4, 2024)","Brazil (Nov 4, 2024)","Canada (Nov 4, 2024)","China (Nov 4, 2024)","Europe (Nov 4, 2024)","France (Nov 4, 2024)","Germany (Nov 4, 2024)","India (Nov 4, 2024)","Japan (Nov 4, 2024)","Norway (Not Supported)","Qatar (Nov 4, 2024)","Singapore (Not Supported)","South Africa (Not Supported)","South Korea (Not Supported)","Sweden (Nov 4, 2024)","Switzerland (Nov 4, 2024)","United Arab Emirates (Nov 4, 2024)","United Kingdom (Nov 4, 2024)","United States (Nov 4, 2024)"],
        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Chinese (Simplified) (Mar 1, 2025)","Czech (Mar 1, 2025)","Danish (Mar 1, 2025)","Dutch (Mar 1, 2025)","English (United States) (Mar 1, 2025)","Finnish (Mar 1, 2025)","French (Mar 1, 2025)","German (Mar 1, 2025)","Greek (Mar 1, 2025)","Italian (Mar 1, 2025)","Japanese (Mar 1, 2025)","Korean (Mar 1, 2025)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Mar 1, 2025)","Polish (Mar 1, 2025)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Mar 1, 2025)","Russian (Mar 1, 2025)","Spanish (Mar 1, 2025)","Swedish (Mar 1, 2025)","Thai (Mar 1, 2025)","Turkish (Mar 1, 2025)"]
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Streamline data entry with smart paste",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>As a sales team, you often spend a significant amount of time on manual data entry, like copying information from emails, business cards, or web forms into your CRM. This process not only reduces your available time but also takes time away from high-value selling activities, such as engaging with prospects and closing deals.</p> <p>Smart paste helps you eliminate that busywork. It uses AI to analyze what you copy to your clipboard, identify key details, and automatically fill them into the right fields. Whether it's content from an email or a business card, smart paste updates the form for you, so all you need to do is review and save the lead or contact. It reduces manual effort, speeds up data entry, and keeps you focused on what matters most: selling.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Use smart paste to automatically get inline field suggestions by copying relevant text or images to your clipboard.</li> <li>Paste using the smart paste icon or the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) when no field is selected and let AI reason over the form and clipboard content to suggest field values.</li> <li>Choose to accept or ignore suggestions, and continue editing the form as needed.</li> <li>Paste directly into specific fields as usual by selecting the field first.</li> </ul> <p>For more details and timelines, see the Power Apps release plan:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2024wave2/power-apps/get-better-suggestions-using-form-fill-assistance\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Fill forms faster with smart paste</a></p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"07/28/2025",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"41e73b47-b5db-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6b79",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Maximize sales success with AI-suggested past successful deals",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you can tap into the collective intelligence of past successful deals. By suggesting similar opportunities, this feature streamlines the decision-making process and enhances the chances of closing deals swiftly. You can gain valuable insights from your own successes, harness industry-specific knowledge, and make informed decisions, ultimately boosting sales effectiveness. By leveraging AI suggestions, you can enhance your strategic approach, increase efficiency, and boost your win rates.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can view opportunity suggestions based on:</p> <ul> <li>Past successful deals.</li> <li>Other diverse parameters such as industry, product, account, and geography.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/28/2024",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"fcdb5bd9-1c53-ee11-be6f-000d3a55bcf1",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/17/2024"
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Elevate your sales pitch using Copilot email assistance",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you often struggle with writing effective emails to communicate with your customers. You might face challenges such as not knowing how to structure your emails, which information to include or exclude, or how to strike the right tone. This struggle can lead to poor customer engagement, lost sales, and damage to your brand image. Although organizations try to use templates, most of the emails you send can't be standardized, so templates aren't very useful in these scenarios.</p> <p>Email assistance can provide tremendous value by addressing these challenges. As a language model trained on a vast collection of text, Copilot can generate personalized, high-quality emails that meet the specific needs of each customer. By using natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, Copilot helps you craft clear, concise, and compelling emails that resonate with your audience. This approach leads to improved customer engagement, increased sales, and an enhanced brand reputation. You can adjust the tone and length of the message to better resonate with customers and foster stronger connections. You can also customize the suggested content before you send it.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Copilot helps you spend less time composing emails. With this feature, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Select a predefined category or enter your text, and Copilot suggests content with specific prompts and actions.</li> <li>Adjust the tone and length of the email.</li> <li>Customize the suggested content before you send it.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"06/16/2023",
        "GA date":"10/01/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2023 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"9112f8b7-ced9-ed11-a7c7-000d3a1da217",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"10/30/2025",
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Ask questions from sales documents in your preferred language",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>In sales, seamlessly engaging with customers across linguistic boundaries is essential.</p> <p>With the latest updates to Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, you can rely on Copilot to read documents in various languages and provide answers in your preferred language. This enhancement enables you to quickly access information from multilingual sources without language constraints, so you can maintain a consistent workflow in your chosen language.</p> <p>By bridging language differences in the background, this feature helps you deliver a smooth, personalized customer experience that fosters better understanding and drives sales success. Now, you can focus on connecting with customers while Copilot manages the language nuances for you.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can get answers to your questions from SharePoint documents in your preferred language. Copilot searches all SharePoint files that you access and translates the answers from the documents into your preferred language.</p> <p>Copilot can answer questions from documents in the following languages:</p> <ul> <li>Chinese (simplified)</li> <li>Czech</li> <li>Danish</li> <li>Dutch</li> <li>Finnish</li> <li>French</li> <li>German</li> <li>Greek</li> <li>Italian</li> <li>Japanese</li> <li>Korean</li> <li>Norwegian</li> <li>Polish</li> <li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li> <li>Russian</li> <li>Spanish</li> <li>Swedish</li> <li>Thai</li> <li>Turkish</li> </ul> <p>This feature is automatically enabled with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. For more information about enabling Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, see <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/enable-setup-copilot\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Turn on and set up Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales</a>.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"11/29/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Know your account better with AI-generated account summary",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>In the fast-paced world of sales, sellers often work on multiple accounts at the same time. It can be challenging to stay on top of all the accounts and gather relevant information efficiently. With the account summary feature, sellers can access a consolidated summary of vital customer data, including buying behavior, associated opportunities, leads, and the latest news about an account through the power of AI.</p> <p>Sellers no longer need to spend excessive time sifting through scattered information or manually compiling account details. They can quickly access a comprehensive overview of each account, enabling them to prioritize their work effectively and engage with customers in a more personalized and targeted way.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With these enhancements, sellers can:</p> <ul> <li>Get an overview of the account and quickly understand the key information.</li> <li>View a summary of associated opportunities.</li> <li>View a summary of associated leads.</li> <li>Learn the latest news about an account.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/31/2024",
        "GA date":"10/20/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/09/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get 360-degree view with account AI-generated summary",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>In the fast-paced world of sales, you often work on multiple accounts at the same time. It can be challenging to stay on top of all your accounts and efficiently gather relevant information. With the Account summary feature, you can access a consolidated summary of vital customer data, including buying behavior, associated opportunities, leads, marketing campaigns, and the latest news about an account through the power of AI. This feature enables you to quickly research an account.</p> <p>You no longer need to spend excessive time shifting through scattered information or manually compiling account details. You can quickly access a comprehensive overview of each account, prioritize your work effectively, and engage with customers in a more personalized and targeted manner.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an admin, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Enable Copilot Account summary for any Dynamics 365 application.</li> <li>Configure the entities and fields to use for creating the account summary.</li> </ul> <p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Get a 360-degree view of your account, which uses all the data associated with the account.&nbsp;</li> <li>View a summary of the associated opportunities.</li> <li>Know about the associated leads.</li> <li>Learn the latest news about the account.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"07/29/2024",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/20/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"697fa432-c353-ee11-be6f-00224827e5da",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Use Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot inside Dynamics 365",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot simplifies how you find, understand, and act on sales information. You can use natural language to retrieve data across CRM and productivity tools, analyze it, and turn it into insights, without changing where you work.</p> <p>You can access Microsoft 365 Copilot and Sales agent from inside your Dynamics 365 sales applications, giving you a single, consistent Copilot experience grounded in both CRM data and Microsoft Graph. Whether you’re working in Outlook, Teams, or Dynamics 365, you get the same Sales agent capabilities and shared context in Copilot chat. The agent understands where you’re working and brings together relevant Dynamics data (such as opportunities and contacts) with Microsoft 365 data (such as emails, meetings, and calendars) in one conversation, so answers are more complete, relevant, and actionable.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Sales agent gives you a conversational way to access sales information that lives in different apps. This information includes customer and deal data in CRM, meetings in Teams, and much more. Use natural language to search through the data, summarize the information, and run analysis that combines data from different sources.</p> <p>As an admin, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Control availability by selecting which environments, users, and applications have access to Sales agent.</li> <li>Configure the Sales agent experience to respect your organization's CRM customizations, terminology, and business processes.</li> </ul> <p>As a seller, you can use Sales agent to:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Understand your customers</strong>: Whether you're preparing for a customer meeting or an account plan, you need a comprehensive view of the account. You need to see the current business, open opportunities, and past engagements. With Sales agent, you can get this information by using natural language.</li> <li><strong>Ramp up on newly assigned accounts and deals</strong>: Go beyond the customer data in CRM. Find colleagues who engaged with the customer in recent months and have the most context to share. Quickly get the topics that interest the customer and appear in recent engagements.</li> <li><strong>Grow your business and find new opportunities</strong>: Use Sales agent to discover open issues in stalled deals. It checks past meetings for these issues. Find colleagues who faced similar issues in other deals to help unblock your deals.</li> <li><strong>Access all agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot inside Dynamics 365</strong>: You can access not just Sales agent, but all agents available in Microsoft 365 Copilot inside Dynamics 365.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/31/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"b7f3ce16-a5fc-f011-8406-7ced8ddcc3f3",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Accelerate lead qualification with custom research in Sales Qualification Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales Qualification Agent qualifies the best-fit leads for your sales team by researching company overviews, finances, news, and competitor details using CRM records and public data. Depending on your business, however, your sellers may need additional insights about the lead's company, such as their past spend from your internal billing data, or financial reports sourced from a country/region-specific data source. With this enhancement, Sales Qualification Agent can be easily configured to research and synthesize these insights and the data source from which they should be obtained.</p> <p>This level of customization helps your sellers get insights that enable them to effectively understand and engage with each lead. With custom knowledge sources, research is enriched with authenticated, organization-specific data—such as regulatory filings, proprietary databases, or curated third-party subscriptions. This delivers deeper, context-rich insights aligned to the sales motion. This not only saves hours each week for your sellers who no longer have to context- switch and go to multiple sources to assess each lead but also ensures that only the best leads are qualified from higher fidelity of insights.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an administrator, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Define the custom research data you need and the instructions that guide the agent’s research using configured knowledge sources to surface organizational-specific insights to sellers.</li> <li>Configure any knowledge sources, connectors, and MCP Servers supported in Microsoft Copilot Studio.</li> <li>Test and review the custom research insights before publishing the agent.</li> <li>Equip sellers with the same custom insights for each lead researched and handed off to them, ensuring consistency and relevance across teams.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"11/01/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"52482933-088d-f011-b4cc-002248313450",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Accelerate data entry using form fill assist toolbar",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales teams often deal with large volumes of lead and contact data from sources like business cards, web forms, and scanned documents. Manually entering this information into Dynamics 365 Sales is time-consuming, error-prone, and takes away from high-value selling activities like engaging with customers and closing deals.</p> <p>As part of Copilot’s form fill assistance initiatives, the form fill assist toolbar supports uploading of files, emails, and images, helping eliminate this manual data entry work. It uses AI to extract key details such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and company info from uploaded content, and intelligently maps them to the right fields in the sales form. This capability streamlines data entry, reduces errors, and helps you stay focused on selling.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Use <strong>Files</strong> to upload supported file types (.txt, .docx, .csv, .pdf, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp) and get inline suggestions to fill out fields based on the file’s content.</li> <li>Drag and drop a file or use the file selector button in the form fill assist toolbar to start.</li> <li>Hover over the file’s source tag to see which fields the file suggests.</li> <li>Accept all suggestions at once with the <strong>Accept All</strong> button or clear them with the <strong>Clear</strong> or <strong>Clear All</strong> options.</li> <li>Show or hide the form fill assist toolbar, access the Smart Paste button, and provide feedback with the more actions menu.</li> </ul> <p>For more details and timelines, see the Power Apps release plan:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2024wave2/power-apps/enhanced-experience-form-filling-copilot\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Enhanced experience for form filling with Copilot</a></p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"07/28/2025",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"ee9f9691-931b-f011-998a-6045bda94eab",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Boost decision making by using Visualize with Copilot",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales teams often rely on dashboards, static charts, or external tools like Power BI to make sense of their sales data in Dynamics 365 Sales. Switching between views or analyzing raw data manually can take extra time, disrupt daily workflows, and delay decision-making.</p> <p>As part of Copilot’s productivity capabilities, smart charts enable sellers to generate real-time visualizations directly within their workflow. Using AI, these charts help you uncover trends, patterns, and relationships in tabular data, making it easier to interpret data, act on insights faster, and stay focused on closing deals.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Select the Visualize option on a grid page to generate a chart based on the visible columns and applied filters in the current view.</li> <li>View the chart side by side with the data grid, so you can more easily interpret key trends and patterns in your data.</li> <li>Select Explain to see an AI-generated summary that helps you understand why Copilot chose the specific visualization.</li> <li>Hover over data points or select chart elements to drill into details—filtered results will update automatically in the grid.</li> <li>Use the chart selector to personalize the visualization by choosing from nine chart types, including bar, pie, column, and line.</li> <li>Add or remove columns and filters in the view, and Copilot will automatically update the chart.</li> <li>Use additional controls to refresh the chart, expand it to full screen, close the chart pane, or copy it as a PNG.</li> <li>Share your feedback with the thumbs-up or thumbs-down icons to help improve the feature.</li> </ul> <p>For more details and timelines, go to the Power Apps release plan:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2024wave2/power-apps/visualize-data-view-easily-copilot\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Visualize the data in your view easily with Copilot</a></p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/21/2025",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"b666a25e-b5db-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6acf",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Find, filter, and sort using natural language with smart grid",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales teams often spend valuable time navigating through long lists of leads and opportunities to find the most relevant ones. Traditional filtering methods can be slow and require navigating complex filter menus. This disruption in focus slows decision-making.</p> <p>Smart grids, part of Copilot’s workflow efficiency toolkit, simplify this process by letting you filter, find, and sort data using natural language. Just type a query in natural language in Copilot Search, and Copilot instantly applies the right filters and updates the grid. You see exactly what criteria are used and can clear them all with one click. With smart grids, you get to insights faster, make smarter decisions, and stay focused on closing deals.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Use smart grid to quickly find, filter, and sort data with natural language, so you don't need complex advanced filters.</li> <li>Type queries like “opportunities with estimated revenue greater than 10000 USD” into Copilot Search to instantly refine your view.</li> <li>View and clear applied filters with one click to easily switch between focused and grid views.</li> <li>Sort records directly within the grid using natural, conversational input.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/21/2025",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"a0430f4f-b5db-ef11-a730-000d3a109277",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get embedded experience for Copilot summaries",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>The Copilot summary for Opportunity, Lead, and Account gives sellers instant, AI-generated insights so they can quickly get up to speed, understand deal context faster, and spend less time searching through data.</p> <p>The new in-form banner experience brings key information right to the top of the record, so sellers don't need to open the Copilot side pane. With this change, sellers stay in the flow of work, focus on what matters, and drive more productive customer engagements.</p> <p>When you use Dynamics 365 Sales, this feature will be enabled by default for Opportunity, Lead, and Account summary from Copilot.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you see an AI Summary banner at the top of your Lead, Opportunity, and Account forms. You can view a high-level summary and a detailed summary of your records. The summarization capabilities stay the same, with the following actions still supported:</p> <ul> <li>Auto-generation of summaries when you open a form.</li> <li>Ability to copy the generated summary.</li> <li>Providing thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback on summary quality.</li> <li>Using copilot chat to generate a summary for any specific record.</li> </ul> <p>You'll get the new experience as part of the 2025 release wave 2 updates for Dynamics 365 Sales:</p> <ul> <li>Early access from July 2025. <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/opt-in-early-access-updates\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Opt in to early access updates.</a></li> <li>Default on for all Copilot-enabled organizations at general availability starting from September 2025.</li> </ul> <p>Sellers will start seeing the new in-form banner without any extra clicks.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"07/28/2025",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"09/26/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Connect AI agents to sales workflows using Model Context Protocol server",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Whether you're a developer building an AI agent to automate part of the sales workflow or a seller using AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to get work done, you can now connect Dynamics 365 Sales to your agents and assistants with the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.</p> <p>For developers, this capability means no more complex integrations. AI agents can retrieve, update, and act on CRM data, automate tasks like qualifying leads or sending emails, and handle business processes without custom code.</p> <p>For end users and sellers, this capability means they can use their favorite AI assistant, such as Claude or, in the future, ChatGPT, to get their work done - prioritizing leads, engaging them with personalized emails, generating quotes, and closing deals. They connect their assistant to Dynamics 365 by installing the MCP server just as easily as installing a new mobile app.</p> <p>Finally, agents and assistants can use Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales in their workflow, starting with getting summaries and drafting emails. Additional operations are coming soon.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The MCP Server exposes the following tools initially, with more tools coming soon:</p> <ul> <li>List leads</li> <li>Retrieve lead summary (using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales)</li> <li>Qualify lead to opportunity</li> <li>Get outreach email (using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales)</li> <li>Send outreach email</li> </ul> <p>Use Microsoft Copilot Studio to build custom agents for sales teams that include the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server or connect Dynamics 365 with any other agent platform that supports the MCP protocol. By using the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server in combination with MCP servers from other business applications such as Customer Service and ERP, you can automate complex cross-functional business operations with ease. For example, a quote can be generated through the Dynamics 365 Business Central MCP server for each lead that confirms interest after being engaged with the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server. Then, a support ticket on the order can be processed using the Dynamics 365 Customer Service MCP server.</p> <p>Here are examples of agents you can build with these MCP tools:</p> <ul> <li>A post-service upsell agent that prospects for maintenance plans after a field tech visit, turning each engagement into a sales opportunity.</li> <li>An agent that targets prospects from existing accounts, so the account manager can schedule strategy meetings with key stakeholders.</li> <li>An agent that helps the sales team prioritize the best leads from B2B events and add others to a marketing nurture campaign.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"06/30/2025",
        "GA date":"02/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"748372a1-5624-f011-8c4e-7c1e52165747",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Enhance customer interactions with auto-linked CRM data",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Although most companies generate a sizable amount of new business from existing customers, only a small fraction of new leads link to existing CRM data. This disconnect results in incomplete context, missed insights, and subpar customer experiences, as sellers and AI agents lack critical information for effective interactions.</p> <p>Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales now finds and auto-links a matching contact and account for each lead it researches, so it can process information not only from the lead but also from the linked records, which enhances research outcomes and improves customer interactions.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>This feature is automatically enabled when you turn on Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales.</p> <p>As a seller, you see the following information on the lead insights page:</p> <ul> <li>Automatically linked contact and account information.</li> <li>Enriched information from linked accounts and contacts.</li> <li>The ability to de-link an auto-linked record and manually link another record if needed.</li> </ul> <p>Sales Qualification Agent analyzes information across linked accounts and contacts for high effectiveness.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/15/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"f8f2ea5d-c015-f011-998a-000d3a8ea979",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Boost pipeline by autonomously researching and engaging leads with the Sales Qualification Agent",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you typically need to build a qualified pipeline that covers two to three times your target quota goal. However, building this pipeline requires manual work across fragmented tools. It's also inefficient to spend hours each week sending hundreds of prospecting emails just to book two to three meetings with prospects, of which perhaps one prospect converts to a qualified opportunity.</p> <p>The Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales eliminates this by autonomously researching information about every lead using data from CRM, public websites, and your company's internal knowledge sources. The agent then engages every lead autonomously, reminding them, following up, answering their questions, and understanding their need, ability, and intent to purchase. If the lead fits your ideal customer criteria and shows intent to purchase, it hands off the lead to a seller to take it forward, ensuring that your sales team builds a high-quality pipeline of high-intent leads, while spending more time building customer relationships and less time pursuing cold leads.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The agent works on behalf of your team to autonomously prospect leads based on your defined selection criteria. Some features include:</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>AI-powered lead research</strong>: The agent autonomously researches leads by combining your CRM data with public web sources as well as custom knowledge sources through Copilot Studio, creating rich lead and company profiles. It assesses a lead's importance based on target profile criteria you define, as well as signals from emails with the lead and recent marketing interactions.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Instant insights</strong>: Get actionable recommendations, 360-degree lead and account summaries, recent company news, competitor insights, and clear prioritization—letting sellers focus on the leads most likely to convert.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Personalized outreach</strong>: The updated agent not only automatically drafts but also sends customized emails with key talking points. It also reminds leads that don't engage, increasing the response rates of your prospecting efforts.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Smart engagement with Q&amp;A and intent detection</strong>: With new automation, the agent can send personalized follow-up emails and analyze responses to detect purchase intent, ensuring high-touch engagement and boosting your pipeline’s quality. It can answer the lead's questions using your configured knowledge sources, moving the lead further down the consideration journey.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Easy customization with configurable automation level</strong>: Admins can tailor qualification rules, add industry-specific research sources, and fine-tune the agent’s handover criteria to your unique sales strategy. You can control the level of automation you want—from research and prequalification all the way to full engagement</p> </li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/05/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"415e9534-487d-ef11-a671-000d3a9e52a3",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Improve sales efficiency with the Sales Qualification Agent&#39;s email validation",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Inaccurate email addresses in CRM systems can significantly hinder your productivity and engagement with prospects, leading to missed opportunities and decreased sales performance. Now, the Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales verifies each email address and identifies if it's a work or personal email. Sales teams can save precious time by ignoring unreachable leads, increase the effectiveness of their sales outreach, and stay compliant by reaching out to only valid work emails.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The Sales Qualification Agent uses validated email addresses as it conducts lead research, outreach, and qualification.</p> <p>As an admin, you can specify which email field on the lead form the agent validates. You set this field as part of the Sales Qualification Agent settings.</p> <p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>See whether the email address associated with the lead is valid.</li> <li>See the email address categorized as work or personal.</li> <li>Update the validity and categorization if you disagree with the assessment. For example, you can mark an email address as personal if the agent inadvertently marks it as a work email address.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/01/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"db9b2d5f-5df0-ef11-be21-6045bdfeabd7",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Deploy multiple Sales Qualification Agents in a single environment",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Multi-agent configuration in Sales Qualification Agents enables sales organizations to deploy agents aligned to distinct product lines, regions, or sales teams, each with its own qualification criteria, knowledge sources, and engagement approach. Multi-agent configuration ensures exclusive lead ownership, coordinates handoffs when context shifts, and provides sales managers with visibility across agents. This targeted approach mirrors real-world sales structures, eliminates duplicate outreach, accelerates qualification, and scales coverage without additional seller headcount.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<ul> <li><strong>Segment-specific qualification</strong>: Each agent operates with its own ideal customer profile, knowledge sources, templates, and consent settings, ensuring qualification conversations reflect the nuances of each product, region, or team.</li> <li><strong>Intelligent lead routing</strong>: The system evaluates incoming leads against agent selection criteria and assigns ownership based on configured priority, ensuring predictable and conflict-free lead management. A fallback agent handles leads that don't match any specialized criteria, ensuring no lead goes unprocessed.</li> <li><strong>Exclusive engagement with coordinated handoff</strong>: Only one agent engages a lead at any time. When a lead's interest shifts to another product or segment, the system hands off with full context to the appropriate agent.</li> <li><strong>Shared knowledge foundation</strong>: Agents can leverage common company-level knowledge while maintaining their own specialized sources, ensuring consistent answers across the organization.</li> <li><strong>Supervisor oversight and governance</strong>: A centralized dashboard enables supervisors to monitor agent activity, reassign leads, and track the full qualification journey across all agents.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/01/2026",
        "GA date":"06/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"375dde1e-46fe-f011-8406-7c1e525b1dbf",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Identify best leads by using any data source for agent‑driven assessment",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales Qualification Agent already helps you qualify leads by checking whether they meet your handover criteria, ensuring sellers focus only on high‑quality opportunities. You define how leads should be evaluated and where the data comes from, such as CRM fields or specific websites.</p> <p>With this enhancement, the Sales Qualification Agent can evaluate a lead's fit using any data source:</p> <ul> <li>Public web search, so you can assess leads using information from their company website or other online sources.</li> <li>Custom data sources, connected through Copilot Studio.</li> </ul> <p>We've also redesigned the configuration experience so you can get started quickly using Copilot‑generated suggested criteria or add your own, ensuring the agent finds leads that match your business needs with precision.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The new lead assessment experience is an upgraded version of the previous \"Handoff criteria\" configuration page. It has been renamed to \"Lead assessment\" to better reflect its purpose.</p> <p><strong>First‑time users</strong></p> <p>When you configure the agent for the first time, you get a simplified setup flow:</p> <ul> <li>Start with Copilot‑generated assessment criteria for one‑click configuration.</li> <li>Optionally, add or modify criteria manually to match your exact qualification logic.</li> <li>View a flyout explaining the lead assessment process and how it works within the agentic workflow.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Existing users (no disruption)</strong></p> <p>If you've already set up and configured the Sales Qualification Agent, there are no breaking changes.</p> <ul> <li>All previously configured fit and qualification criteria continue to function exactly as before.</li> <li>You can add Agent research as a data source when configuring criteria, enabling the Sales Qualification Agent to draw from any source connected as a custom research insight.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"0fddb835-1ae8-f011-8544-7ced8d1f67a7",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026"
},
                
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Prioritize your hottest leads first with next best actions",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales Qualification Agent meticulously researches every lead and identifies which ones are hot, warm or cold. When configured to autonomously engage, it identifies the ones that explicitly state their purchase intent. Now, you can see hot and high-intent leads prominently on your leads grid in Dynamics 365 Sales so that you can immediately focus on the next best actions you need to take to build a pipeline. With Sales Qualification Agent, your best move is now right at your fingertips.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Get the next best actions for leads right on your Dynamics 365 leads grid, and navigate to see Sales Qualification Agent's research and pregenerated email suggestions. The actions show a preview of the lead, a summary of why it's a hot or high-intent lead, and the topic that the lead is interested in.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"04e207f7-34fe-f011-8407-6045bda6fd8f",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Deploy autonomous Sales Qualification Agent to qualify leads at scale",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>Sales teams get a wide variety of leads but often don't have the capacity to handle them all effectively. Scaling operations can be a daunting task. When you expand the team or streamline processes, you risk overlooking opportunities and losing revenue.</p> <p>The autonomous Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales works nonstop to build a qualified pipeline and boost revenue. After you configure it, the agent works on its own with minimal human oversight. It continuously handles every lead with precision. By leveraging data from your CRM and external sources, the agent automatically researches each lead, intelligently sends personalized outreach emails, follows up with timely reminders, gauges buying intent, and eventually hands over only the most qualified leads to human sellers.</p> <p>By freeing sellers to focus on closing deals, the agent boosts productivity, lowers operational costs, and maximizes overall team revenue.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>You can customize the autonomous Sales Qualification Agent to align with your specific business processes and sales strategies.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Precise lead targeting</strong>: Define specific filtering criteria to ensure the agent focuses exclusively on your desired leads. These criteria can include leads from a particular geography, related to a specific product, or leads that meet a certain lead value threshold.</li> <li><strong>Intelligent research and synthesis</strong>: The agent automatically gathers and synthesizes key customer and account data from your CRM, public web sources, and existing copilot skills. It provides crucial context for qualification and enables sellers with deeper insights.</li> <li><strong>ICP-driven qualification</strong>: Establish detailed Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) criteria for the agent to accurately assess lead fit and prioritize high-potential prospects.</li> <li><strong>Knowledge-infused outreach</strong>: Configure the agent with access to your knowledge base, so it can automatically incorporate relevant testimonials, case studies, and other social proof into its outreach emails to enhance credibility.</li> <li><strong>Automated follow-ups</strong>: Set up a follow-up strategy that includes time delay, frequency, and channels for the agent to use when following up with prospects.</li> <li><strong>Informed prospect engagement</strong>: Provide the agent with knowledge sources so it can intelligently answer prospect questions about your product or service capabilities, features, maintenance, pricing, and more. This setup ensures accurate and timely responses.</li> <li><strong>Performance monitoring and analytics</strong>: Track the agent's effectiveness with clear metrics. These metrics include the number of leads engaged, emails sent, positive interactions, leads qualified, and overall pipeline contribution.</li> <li><strong>Supervisor oversight</strong>: Supervise the agent's activities. Review its interactions and easily intervene to provide guidance or resolve situations where it needs assistance. This approach ensures smooth operation and continuous improvement.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/22/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"9292f844-ad16-f011-998a-6045bddb894e",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Personalize outreach emails generated by Sales Qualification Agent",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>This feature expands the Sales Qualification Agent outreach by letting teams define the outreach purpose, brand-aligned tone (matching both company voice and seller style), the call-to-action, and key messaging preferences proven to resonate with prospects. The result is more relevant, consistent communication that drives higher response rates and, in turn, improves lead qualification rates.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<ul> <li>Define outreach scenario/goal in natural language.</li> <li>Choose desired call-to-action to drive next steps.</li> <li>Provide subject line guidance: fixed suggestion or style recommendation.</li> <li>Set message length and brevity targets.</li> <li>Specify tone rules, including name-usage limits and preferred terminology.</li> <li>Configure brand language and voice guardrails: approved phrases and banned words.</li> <li>Set formatting preferences: bullets, paragraph length, and maximum bullet count.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"07/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"ad5413f1-41fe-f011-8406-000d3a1be005",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get lead research and next best actions in Sales Home",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>This feature helps sellers stay focused on the leads most likely to convert by bringing agent-led research, prioritization, and next best actions directly into Sales Home. Instead of spending time hunting for context across tools, sellers can quickly review key insights, understand why a lead matters, and see the recommended next step. By highlighting which leads require attention and what to do next (follow up, qualify, or unblock the agent), teams reduce time-to-first-touch, improve consistency of lead handling, and increase throughput without adding headcount. The result is higher conversion from inquiry to qualified pipeline, fewer stalled leads, and more predictable execution across the funnel, with clear guidance that helps every seller operate like a top performer.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<ul> <li>View AI-researched lead insights to quickly understand intent, fit, and buying signals.</li> <li>See prioritized leads that need attention, based on urgency, value, and engagement.</li> <li>Review next best actions per lead, tailored to context and current funnel stage.</li> <li>Understand why each action is recommended, with evidence links back to research insights.</li> <li>Trigger follow-up, qualify, or unblock the agent directly from Sales Home.</li> <li>Track action status and outcomes to ensure no high-value leads stall in the funnel.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"06/01/2026",
        "GA date":"09/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"1ee1543b-44fe-f011-8406-000d3a1be005",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
},
                
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Mitigate competitive risks with insights and talking points from Sales Qualification Agent",
        "Investment area":"Lead management",
        "Business value":"<p>When prospects begin evaluating alternative providers, speed and effectiveness in responding to competitive risks is key. However, identifying, researching, and tracking competitors manually is time-consuming and often happens too late, leading to stalled conversations and lost opportunities.</p> <p><em>Competitor highlights</em> solves this challenge by giving sellers instant access to comprehensive competitor insights right in their workflow, including an overview, SWOT analysis, and tailored talking points for each direct competitor, along with timely insights whenever a competitor is mentioned in sales emails. This proactive approach empowers sellers to adapt their sales strategy early and maintain a competitive edge. With competitor highlights, sellers don’t just react to competitive risks, they turn them into opportunities.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Competitor highlights delivers insights into the overall competitive landscape and competitors being considered by prospects for a sales scenario. With timely and actionable intelligence, it empowers sellers to refine their strategies and proactively address competitive challenges.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Competitor history</strong>: Gain access to insights from relevant past opportunities where you’ve competed against a specific competitor. Leverage historical learnings to refine your approach and improve outcomes.</li> <li><strong>Competitor landscape</strong>: Identify the top direct competitors for a given sales scenario based on similar products offered or similar account profiles targeted and get an overview and SWOT analysis for each competitor. Understand your competition before it becomes a threat.</li> <li><strong>Tailored talking points</strong>: Receive actionable recommendations to adjust your approach for addressing specific competitors. Differentiate your sales strategy to counter competitors effectively.</li> <li><strong>Competitor mentions</strong>: Stay informed with timely insights whenever a competitor is mentioned in a sales email. Ensure you're always aware of emerging competitor risks.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/29/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"5a3f33bc-6677-ef11-a670-6045bddb73b3",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/29/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Dec 2025)","Australia (Dec 2025)","Brazil (Dec 2025)","Canada (Dec 2025)","China (Dec 2025)","Europe (Dec 2025)","France (Dec 2025)","Germany (Dec 2025)","India (Dec 2025)","Italy (Dec 2025)","Japan (Dec 2025)","New Zealand (Dec 2025)","Norway (Dec 2025)","Poland (Dec 2025)","Qatar (Dec 2025)","Singapore (Dec 2025)","South Africa (Dec 2025)","South Korea (Dec 2025)","Spain (Dec 2025)","Sweden (Dec 2025)","Switzerland (Dec 2025)","United Arab Emirates (Dec 2025)","United Kingdom (Dec 2025)","United States (Dec 2025)","US DoD (Not Supported)","US GCC (Not Supported)","US GCC High (Not Supported)","US Gov (Not Supported)","US Nat (Not Supported)","US Sec (Not Supported)"]
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{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Work efficiently using AI-powered action suggestions",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you invest significant time and effort to stay informed about all your conversations and monitor developments within active sales processes. You visit multiple applications or contact team members to stay on top of all the active discussions and try to find optimal approaches for engaging with business decision-makers to take the assigned sales process forward.&nbsp;</p> <p>The actionable insights generated by Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales help you plan and execute your daily tasks, thereby increasing the likelihood of attaining short- and long-term goals. This capability aims to:</p> <ul> <li>Improve your productivity by elevating your decision-making capability with key information and guidance.&nbsp;</li> <li>Stay on top of all active customer conversations with insights and action suggestions.&nbsp;</li> <li>Reduce the conversion time for opportunities and leads.</li> <li>Seamlessly update and maintain the latest changes on key records.</li> </ul>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an admin, you can enable the feature for sellers to get action recommendations.</p> <p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>View insights and action recommendations for the following use cases: <ul> <li>Email follow-ups for active customer collaborations.</li> <li>Action recommendations from concluded meetings.</li> <li>Suggestions to keep records updated with key changes.</li> <li>Guidance to start engagement for newly assigned opportunities.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Access the recommended action options across multiple touchpoints within the Dynamics 365 apps at a record and aggregated view level.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"09/28/2024",
        "GA date":"11/28/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"12aa9610-e0e5-ee11-904d-00224827e8f9",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"09/20/2024",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Chinese (Simplified) (Apr 2025)","Czech (Apr 2025)","Danish (Apr 2025)","Dutch (Apr 2025)","English (United States) (Apr 2025)","Finnish (Apr 2025)","French (Apr 2025)","German (Apr 2025)","Greek (Apr 2025)","Italian (Apr 2025)","Japanese (Apr 2025)","Korean (Apr 2025)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Apr 2025)","Polish (Apr 2025)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Apr 2025)","Russian (Apr 2025)","Spanish (Apr 2025)","Swedish (Apr 2025)","Thai (Apr 2025)","Turkish (Apr 2025)"]
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Stay on track at every deal stage with delta-first guidance in Sales Close Agent",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you juggle many active opportunities, but deal conditions can shift quickly as stakeholders change, buying signals drop, pricing or procurement hurdles appear, or budget and timeline assumptions shift. When you miss what changed, why it matters now, and what to do next for the current stage, deals lose momentum. Building on the existing deal briefing and continuous monitoring, Sales Close Agent - Research aligns guidance to the customer’s business process flow (BPF) stage. After your first review, it leads with deltas since the most recent review: what changed, why it matters for this stage, and the next best actions to keep momentum. This helps you stay current without rereading a full briefing, cut time spent interpreting generic content, and move opportunities forward with confidence.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you receive:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Stage-aware guidance</strong>: See insights and next actions prioritized by the current BPF stage and substage signals, so guidance matches the selling motion.</li> <li><strong>Delta-first updates</strong>: Lead with what changed since the last review, why it matters for this stage, and the next best actions to take.</li> <li><strong>Always-visible critical risks</strong>: Keep urgent cross-stage risks visible when they require immediate attention.</li> <li><strong>Out-of-the-box stage coverage</strong>: Get built-in guidance across Qualify, Develop, Propose, and Close, with support for customer variations.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/01/2026",
        "GA date":"06/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"5749e60e-d1fd-f011-8406-6045bdd41b9d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Identify the most important actions in the flow of work",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>As intelligence across out-of-the-box and custom agents grows, sellers are presented with more signals and suggested actions, making it harder to quickly decide what truly matters in the moment. Next Best Action ensures that sellers focus on the most important actions&nbsp;that will directly impact the deal progression. This helps sellers stay focused, act with confidence, move deals faster, and ultimately close more business and achieve their quotas.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With Next Best Action, you can ensure that your team focuses on actions that matter most in achieving the target set for each individual member and the team as a whole. These actions will be identified across various experiences, ensuring your team never misses out on any action, wherever they are present.</p> <p>The key capabilities include the following:</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Prioritize the most important action</strong>: Next Best Action analyzes all the available actions generated by first-party sales agents like Sales Qualification Agent, Sales Close Agent or any custom agent or workflow and performs cross-prioritization to identify the most time-critical and impactful action to your team at any given time. It also provides clear reasoning for each prioritization, building trust in the recommendations and enabling your team to confidently focus on the actions.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Surface the prioritized actions across various touchpoints in the flow of seller's work</strong>: Next Best Action reaches out to the sellers in their flow of work across various experiences. This will ensure enhanced discoverability of key and time-sensitive actions, so that your team never misses out on actions that need to be carried out at any time to ensure smooth deal progress. Next Best Action will be available within the Dynamics 365 entity grid layout, Microsoft 365, and Outlook, ensuring your team can continue working in their choice of tool.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Onboard custom agents for prioritization of actions</strong>: Next Best Action will also enable you to onboard any custom agent or workflow that generates actions for sellers to be prioritized and identified via the above-described experiences. This will ensure that your team can focus on Next Best Action recommendations as a one-stop shop for all key actions from both out of the box as well as custom agents.</p> </li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"06/01/2026",
        "GA date":"07/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"bf706308-f6fd-f011-8406-000d3a1beaea",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Use historical deal patterns to get better insights in Sales Opportunity Agent",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>In every sales team, the same issues show up again and again: deals stall after a key meeting, a competitor enters late, procurement slows things down, or a familiar objection repeats. As a seller, you often know these patterns exist, but you don't have time to connect the dots across past wins and losses while running active deals. Sales Close Agent - Research uses historical outcomes where data exists to spot these repeat patterns in time, explain why they matter for the current stage, and recommend next actions that have worked before. This turns past deal learnings into clear guidance sellers can use right now to keep momentum and improve stage progression.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Sellers get the following capabilities:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Stage-impact filter</strong>: See historical patterns only when they change the recommended next step or priority for the current stage.</li> <li><strong>Action required</strong>: Pair every pattern with a clear next action (for example, address a repeat objection theme, cover a missing role in the buying group, confirm procurement readiness).</li> <li><strong>Explain, then act</strong>: Get a clear explanation of what the pattern is, why it matters, and what to do next, so guidance is actionable, not just informative.</li> <li><strong>Coverage</strong>: Get clear patterns across competitors, stakeholders, timing, objections, solution fit, pricing and discount learnings, and cross-sell and upsell signals where usage and buying trends are available.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/01/2026",
        "GA date":"09/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"ece8a3d9-d2fd-f011-8406-6045bdd41b9d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/13/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Uncover insights and risks to close more deals with Opportunity Research Agent",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>Many sellers face a significant challenge: the lack of quick access to comprehensive, up-to-date insights into the opportunities they are pursuing with little time to navigate multiple systems, such as CRM platforms, scattered email threads, and diverse market intelligence resources. This can lead to sellers prioritizing deals that have low probability to close, operating without full visibility across the conversations, and missing key stakeholder movements or competitor mentions that create deal risk.</p> <p>Sales Close Agent's Opportunity Research addresses this challenge by providing sellers with a holistic view of every opportunity. By tirelessly researching data from CRM, SharePoint, public web sources, and customer interactions, it delivers a complete picture of the opportunity. It equips sellers with the context they need to ramp up quickly, understand the competitive landscape to make a differentiated pitch, engage key stakeholders, respond to competitive threats, proactively mitigate risks, and ultimately drive more deals to closure.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Sales Close Agent's Opportunity Research feature empowers sellers to act as trusted advisors—deeply informed, well-prepared, and proactive in navigating the complexities of each opportunity. By eliminating time spent on manual research and surfacing the most critical deal signals mined from CRM, emails and meetings, and other data sources, it enables sellers to focus on what matters most and close more deals, faster.</p> <p>Feature highlights:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Streamlined research experience</strong>: Automatically aggregates insights from CRM, customer communications, public sources, and internal repositories—minimizing context-switching and research overhead.</li> <li><strong>Rapid opportunity catch-up</strong>: Summarizes key details like deal size, target close date, customer pain points, and recent updates, allowing sellers to ramp up in seconds.</li> <li><strong>Dynamic stakeholder intelligence</strong>: Tracks stakeholder changes in real time—whether from emails, meetings, or CRM updates—and flags new decision-makers or influencers. It auto-classifies roles (like economic buyer or champion) and informs sellers when stakeholders leave the organization or are added by teammates, enabling sellers to build relationships with the right people at the right time.</li> <li><strong>Competitor highlights</strong>: Detects competitor mentions from emails, meetings, or CRM entries, delivering timely alerts and contextual insights. It suggests tailored strategies and draws on past deal history to help sellers stay one step ahead.</li> <li><strong>Actionable risk mitigation</strong>: Surfaces deal risks—such as stalled momentum or loss of key stakeholders—and recommends mitigation strategies to keep deals on track.</li> <li><strong>Opportunity relevance signals</strong>: Highlights related active or past deals with the same customer or in similar contexts, helping sellers apply proven approaches and increase win rates.</li> <li><strong>CRM hygiene</strong>: Ensures CRM stays clean and current by auto-updating stakeholder information—adding new contacts from emails and meetings, removing obsolete ones, and maintaining data accuracy with zero manual effort.</li> <li><strong>Instant access to winning content</strong>: Surfaces relevant sales materials, playbooks, and past deal assets directly in the opportunity view—equipping sellers to deliver targeted pitches and respond with confidence.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"10/31/2025",
        "GA date":"04/15/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"5f39bf89-6577-ef11-a670-6045bddb73b3",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Danish (Mar 31, 2026)","Dutch (Mar 31, 2026)","English (United States) (Mar 31, 2026)","French (Mar 31, 2026)","German (Mar 31, 2026)","Italian (Mar 31, 2026)","Japanese (Mar 31, 2026)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Mar 31, 2026)","Spanish (Mar 31, 2026)"]
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Carry out suggested actions faster and more effectively",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>Sellers often spend significant time identifying the right actions to take and then researching the context needed to perform those actions effectively. This slows down deal progress and reduces overall impact.&nbsp;Next Best Action streamlines execution by providing the relevant context, insights, and details directly alongside each suggested action. With the right information available at the right time, sellers can act quickly, confidently perform more actions in less time, and improve their success rates across deals.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Next Best Action not only prioritizes the key actions for your team to focus on but also ensures that the execution of the suggested action is seamless, effective, and fast. It provides the necessary context and details that enable your team to execute the action with ease without having to invest time for researching and understanding the context for each action. The key capabilities include:</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Enable sellers for seamless action execution</strong>: The Next Best Action agent enables your team to carry out the suggested actions by providing an intuitive and contextual user experience, helping them to send emails or set up meetings. Additionally, Next Best Action provides details and guidance to accelerate the action execution. These includes relevant context and details that can be included in executing the action. For example, if the suggested action is to send an email, Next Best Action will provide the details of the discussion, the key contacts, and key points to be addressed, enabling quick composition, confident messaging, and faster execution.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Ability to execute the suggested action in the flow of work</strong>: Next Best Action ensures your team can act on recommendations without constantly switching contexts. Instead of navigating across tools, Next Best Action enables seamless in-place execution within the seller’s existing workflow, whether in Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, or Outlook. This will ensure the flow of work is not disrupted while your team is able to address the key recommendations to ensure faster and more successful deal progression.</p> </li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"06/01/2026",
        "GA date":"07/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"62a72724-f6fd-f011-8406-6045bdefef83",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/20/2026"
},
                
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Improve opportunity context with AI-based data enrichment",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>When your opportunity data is incomplete or outdated, you may find it challenging to understand deal health and take the right actions. AI-powered data enrichment reduces this friction by analyzing your emails and highlighting gaps in opportunity information and suggesting updates. This feature helps you keep your opportunity data accurate and up to date, increases your confidence in pipeline data, and enables more effective deal reviews and forecasting.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an admin, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Specify the criteria for selecting opportunity records that should be enriched.</li> <li>Specify whether you want the records to be automatically updated or manually reviewed and approved.</li> </ul> <p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Review the suggested changes for your opportunity records. The suggestions are generated based on your recent email interactions with customers.</li> <li>Read the context behind each suggestion to understand why the update is recommended.</li> <li>Choose to accept or reject the suggested updates (in the case of manual process) or revert changes made by the agent (in the case of automated process).</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"02/27/2026",
        "GA date":"03/27/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"774416c7-57e2-f011-8544-000d3a13d3fe",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Chat about sales opportunity agent insights from inside Sales agent",
        "Investment area":"Opportunity acceleration",
        "Business value":"<p>You need guidance that adapts to the moment you’re in a meeting preparation, a stage move, or a specific risk you want to validate. With the ability to ask about opportunity research from inside Sales agent, you get right-sized, action-first insights. You can quickly act on what matters now, then go deeper only when you choose. This reduces time spent hunting for answers, improves seller confidence at critical stages, and meet sellers where they are in their flow of work.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Ask questions in context</strong>: Ask about opportunity research from Sales agent.</li> <li><strong>Start concise, go deeper on demand</strong>: Begin with action-oriented insights, then request deeper analysis only when needed.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"06/01/2026",
        "GA date":"07/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"0b72fdcc-d1fd-f011-8406-6045bdd41b9d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Quickly grasp key email engagement metrics",
        "Investment area":"Sales engagement and execution",
        "Business value":"<p>Identifying high-engagement contacts enables targeted follow-up, so sales teams can focus on deals with the greatest potential. By tailoring communications based on specific engagement actions, teams can create more personalized outreach that resonates with prospects. It also ensures that sales efforts are directed toward high-interest prospects, maximizing productivity. Together, these metrics enable a strategic approach to engagement that drives higher conversion rates and improves overall sales outcomes.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The email engagement enhancement highlights key engagement metrics by displaying only the first and most recent instances of clicks, replies, attachment views, and opens. It omits all other instances to keep the focus on the most critical interactions. To access this feature, enable the email engagement option in the Sales Insights settings of the sales application.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"01/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"9ddeedcd-169c-ef11-8a69-7c1e520a48ea",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Reduce seller friction in Sequences with in-flow email template picker",
        "Investment area":"Sales engagement and execution",
        "Business value":"<p>Sequences are most commonly created and iterated on by sellers to support day-to-day outreach such as prospecting, follow-ups, and re-engagement, while managers and sales operations teams also create shared or approved Sequences to scale best practices across teams.</p> <p>Today, adding or modifying email templates while building a Sequence is slow and disruptive. Sellers must leave the Sequence flow to create or edit templates, may struggle to discover the right template among many, and often rely on trial and error to determine whether a template is appropriate for a given step or audience. This friction breaks focus, slows sequence creation, and discourages iteration, leading sellers to reuse “good enough” templates instead of refining outreach.</p> <p>The new email template picker in Sequences removes this friction by enabling fast template discovery, in-flow creation and editing, and clearer organization through views. Sellers can stay in the flow while building Sequences, quickly find or adjust the right template for each step, and move from intent to execution faster, while managers and operations benefit from better reuse of shared and approved templates.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Sequences are designed to enable consistent, repeatable outreach at scale. The new email template picker improves the Sequence authoring experience by reducing setup friction, improving template discoverability, and enabling in-context creation and editing, so sellers can build and iterate on Sequences efficiently without breaking flow or compliance. Key capabilities in the modernized email template picker include:</p> <p><strong>Enhanced template discovery with views</strong>: A view selector helps sellers and managers quickly narrow down templates such as My templates, Team templates, or Approved templates, making it easier to find the right content for each Sequence step with minimal trial and error.</p> <p><strong>In-flow template creation and editing</strong>: Sellers can create new email templates or edit existing ones directly within the Sequence flow. Newly created or updated templates are immediately available for selection, eliminating context switching and rework.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"85d6209e-a205-f111-8406-000d3a991977",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/07/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get sales operations insights in Sales Research Agent",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>As a business leader or sales operations team member, you're responsible for answering complex questions about performance, coverage, attainment, and risk, but the data needed to do so is often fragmented across CRM systems, financial systems, and spreadsheets. This fragmentation drives you to do manual data exports, reconciliation work, and custom reporting that slows decision-making and increases dependency on specialized analysts.</p> <p>The sales operations business function in Sales Research Agent delivers AI-powered insights that unify CRM and operational data in a single experience. By combining data from Dynamics 365 Sales, Microsoft Fabric lakehouse, and custom data uploads, you can quickly assess business health, identify trends and risks, and provide leadership with trusted insights without manual data preparation or spreadsheet-driven workflows.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With the sales operations business function, you get an AI-powered experience designed specifically for sales and revenue operations scenarios. It enables unified analysis from data across multiple data sources. For example:</p> <ul> <li><p>Dynamics 365 Sales data, including:</p> <ul> <li>Opportunities</li> <li>Pipeline and forecast</li> <li>Accounts and sales activities</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Operational data from Fabric lakehouse, such as:</p> <ul> <li>Targets and quotas</li> <li>Budgets and planned revenue</li> <li>Actuals and invoiced revenue</li> <li>Backlog and operational performance metrics</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Custom data uploads allow you to include supplemental datasets (for example, spreadsheets or external operational files) that aren't stored in CRM or lakehouse.</p> <p>The business function includes predefined sales operations insights that correlate CRM and operational data to answer common operational questions, including:</p> <ul> <li>Performance versus target and quota attainment</li> <li>Pipeline coverage relative to revenue goals</li> <li>Variance between forecasted, actual, and invoiced results</li> <li>Identification of operational and revenue risk</li> </ul> <p>You can also extend these insights using natural language queries in an AI-powered research canvas. The agent reasons across CRM data, lakehouse data, and uploaded files in a single flow, enabling faster analysis while reducing manual effort and improving decision quality.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"02/16/2026",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"745be3b1-d0ed-f011-8544-7c1e52fdfc34",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Improve research relevance by adding custom web sources to the Sales Qualification Agent",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>As a sales team, you need research that’s not only comprehensive but also tailored to your specific industry, customer segments, and business strategy. While a Sales Qualification Agent’s out-of-the-box research provides broad insights, many organizations rely on industry-specific sources, regulatory databases, or niche publications to make informed decisions.</p> <p>With this enhancement, the agent delivers more relevant, customized insights by incorporating data from public web sources that matter most to your business. You gain real-time access to industry-aligned insights and can engage leads with deeper context, using up-to-date information to ensure outreach is timely and impactful.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Admins configure the Sales Qualification Agent to pull relevant insights from specific web sources, so they can tailor research to your industry's needs. Sellers see industry-specific insights from web sources that are relevant for your business.</p> <p>For example, Contoso's sales ops team wants sellers to see industry details for incoming leads based on NAICS codes. By specifying sources that provide NAICS classifications, admins ensure that sellers receive industry insights directly in their workflow. This approach streamlines research and enables faster, more informed engagements.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"07/31/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"14da42e8-43f5-ef11-be20-6045bdd6887a",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Connect Fabric lakehouse data to AI‑powered sales research",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>Many organizations store critical operational and financial data such as revenue actuals, targets, and budgets in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse rather than in Dynamics 365 Sales. Without native connectivity, sales insights remain limited to Dynamics 365 Sales data and require manual data movement or duplication to incorporate operational context. The Fabric Lakehouse connector allows you to bring trusted operational data directly into AI-powered sales research experiences. By enabling unified analysis across Dynamics 365 Sales and Lakehouse data, you can eliminate data silos, improve insight accuracy, and ensure sales decisions are grounded in both pipeline activity and real operational outcomes.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The Fabric Lakehouse connector provides an integration between Dynamics 365 Sales research experiences and data stored in Microsoft Fabric/OneLake. With this integration, you'll be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Connect to Fabric Lakehouse tables without manual exports or data replication.</li> <li>Allow AI-powered agents to query and reason across Dynamics 365 Sales (Dataverse) and Lakehouse data together.</li> <li>Add support for operational and financial datasets, including: <ul> <li>Revenue actuals</li> <li>Targets and budgets</li> <li>Invoicing and backlog</li> </ul> </li> <li>View sales and sales operations insights seamlessly within AI-powered research and analysis experiences.</li> </ul> <p>This connector serves as the foundational integration layer for multisource sales analysis. It enables advanced sales operations, financial, and performance insights by allowing AI-powered experiences to combine sales activity data with trusted operational data in a single, coherent view.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"02/16/2026",
        "GA date":"04/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"05689da4-d1ed-f011-8544-7c1e52fdfc34",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Turn marketing engagement into actionable insights for sellers",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>Marketing interactions, such as attending a product demo or engaging with a targeted email campaign, are strong signals of buying intent. For Dynamics 365 Sales customers using Customer Insights - Journeys, the Sales Qualification Agent automatically brings key insights from recent marketing activities, including email opens, link clicks, event registrations and attendance, and form submissions.</p> <p>This agent seamlessly connects marketing and sales without requiring customers to build and maintain a custom solution to extract, aggregate, and sync marketing engagement data into Dynamics 365 Sales. It saves significant time and costs. With this agent, sellers focus on the most valuable opportunities sooner and drive more personalized outreach and engagement.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can see the marketing insights from within the lead insights page. With these insights, you gain deeper context for every lead, enabling more timely, relevant, and personalized engagement. For example, you can easily see if a lead recently attended a webinar and interacted with multiple product emails—all from within your sales workflow.</p> <p>This feature is enabled by default for customers using both Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Insights - Journeys.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"07/31/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"d7be6c97-d3f4-ef11-be20-7c1e521a9c2c",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Danish (Not Supported)","Dutch (Not Supported)","English (United States) (Aug 1, 2025)","French (Not Supported)","German (Not Supported)","Italian (Not Supported)","Japanese (Not Supported)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Not Supported)","Spanish (Not Supported)"]
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Plan your sales portfolio with Sales Research Agent",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>Portfolio Planning in Sales Research Agent helps you make better sales and coverage decisions continuously without waiting for annual planning cycles or spending hours in spreadsheets.</p> <p>What you unlock:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Faster decisions with less prep.</strong> You get an executive‑ready overview synthesized from CRM and Fabric (such as targets, budgets, usage, and billing) and relevant web context so you spend less time assembling data and more time acting.</li> <li><strong>More consistent execution.</strong> You turn insights into ranked, owner‑assigned actions with clear “why this” drivers, helping you run a repeatable operating rhythm instead of time‑consuming, one‑off planning efforts.</li> <li><strong>Higher ROI from coverage and capacity.</strong> You improve account planning, territory focus, and capacity alignment so your time and resources are concentrated on the highest‑value opportunities.</li> <li><strong>Reduced revenue risk.</strong> You identify stalled deals and renewal risks early, enabling proactive intervention and measurable improvements in stage velocity, win probability, and save rates.</li> <li><strong>Explainable, governed planning.</strong> You can trace inputs, reasoning, and recommendations and clearly see data gaps that limit confidence, building trust and making plans easier to operationalize.</li> </ul> <p>Who benefits:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Account executives, sales managers</strong>: Account planning, whitespace expansion, deal rescue, next‑best actions</li> <li><strong>Customer success managers, account managers</strong>: Renewal risk triage and expansion sequencing</li> <li><strong>Sales managers</strong>: Territory balancing and coaching plans</li> <li><strong>Sales operations, sales leaders</strong>: Segment and industry investment allocation, portfolio health and pulse</li> </ul>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Portfolio Planning is an AI‑first capability in Sales Research Agent that turns CRM data, lakehouse signals (such as budgets, targets, usage, billing, and adoption), and web context into a continuously updated plan across accounts, territories, segments, and partners.</p> <h3 id=\"whats-new\">What’s new</h3> <p>You can run scenario‑driven planning for the most common field workflows:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Account executive overview</strong> to understand the current state across accounts.</li> <li><strong>Deal rescue</strong> to identify and unblock stalled opportunities.</li> <li><strong>Renewal risk and expansion</strong> to protect revenue first, then grow.</li> <li><strong>Territory patch rebalancing</strong> to decide where to double down or pull back.</li> <li><strong>Segment and industry performance</strong> to determine where to place bets.</li> </ul> <p>Plans refresh automatically as signals change, so they stay current instead of aging out after QBRs or annual planning.</p> <p>You also get <strong>explainable recommendations</strong> showing the drivers behind prioritization and actions (the “why this” behind every recommendation).</p> <h3 id=\"how-it-works\">How it works</h3> <p>Portfolio Planning combines three classes of signals to maintain an always‑current decision view:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Intent signals (CRM)</strong>: Pipeline, activities, stage history</li> <li><strong>Reality signals (OneLake)</strong>: Budgets, targets, usage trends, billing, cost‑to‑value indicators</li> <li><strong>Context signals (web and internal)</strong>: Organizational changes, strategic priorities, competitive moves, macro events</li> </ul> <p>The agent synthesizes these signals into a clear decision flow:</p> <ol> <li><strong>What changed</strong>: Signals and anomalies</li> <li><strong>So what</strong>: Impact on pipeline, renewals, budgets, and targets</li> <li><strong>Now what</strong>: Actionable recommendations</li> </ol>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"05/01/2026",
        "GA date":"07/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"e89a3be5-1afe-f011-8406-7c1e525b1dbf",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Reduce risk with Next Best Action in Sales Close Agent",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>This capability helps sellers focus on the right action at the right time by removing guesswork and time taken to inspect every opportunity for mitigating detected risks. By prioritizing high-impact risks and suggesting relevant actions, across opportunities, Next Best Action (NBA) enables sellers to reduce deal slippage, improve win rates, and spend less time deciding what to do next. This results in a healthier pipeline and faster deal progression.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<ul> <li>View action cards for prioritized risks on the Opportunity grid as part of the NBA carousel.</li> <li>Access an out-of-the-box view that lists all opportunities with active risks, enabling sellers to quickly identify and focus on at-risk deals across their pipeline.</li> <li>Navigate to the opportunity research page to view details of the risk and the action needed to mitigate the same.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"04/02/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"8ef555b9-2cdc-f011-8544-000d3a112b25",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/16/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Tailor Sales Qualification Agent to your industry and business needs",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>Top sellers consistently build stronger pipelines by being disciplined in how they choose which leads to engage. What if every seller could follow that same high-performing approach? With the Sales Qualification Agent, now they can. You can now customize lead selection criteria by using your ideal customer profile (ICP), leveraging Dynamics 365 data like job title, and public web sources like market cap from Bloomberg.</p> <p>Different businesses prioritize different signals: financial services might use assets under management, while tech companies focus on subscription usage. The Sales Qualification Agent lets sales operations replicate top sellers’ intuition by fine-tuning the lead selection criteria with data from Dynamics 365, Dataverse, and public external sources. By encoding strong lead selection logic, the agent helps every seller focus only on the leads that are most likely to convert, driving higher productivity and better outcomes.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an admin, you configure the Sales Qualification Agent to assess leads using data from Dynamics 365, other Dataverse sources, and trusted public web sources. You can define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) with industry-specific precision.</p> <p>For example, a logistics company like Contoso can set up the agent to evaluate a lead’s USDOT status, incident history, and inspections from the past 24 months. This setup helps sellers focus on compliant, high-potential leads and drives more efficient, targeted engagement.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/05/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"e8490d2f-d981-ef11-ac21-6045bdd3c2dc",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Integrate with Exchange using server-side synchronization",
        "Investment area":"Sales management and operations",
        "Business value":"<p>Upgrading the Exchange infrastructure enhances support for Dynamics 365 Sales Premium features such as Relationship analytics and Who knows whom. With this release, Exchange data integration shifts to server-side synchronization (SSS), enabling more granular control over email sync settings. This upgrade boosts reliability and gives users greater flexibility in managing the timing and scope of their email synchronization.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>To use the new Exchange integration, configure server-side synchronization for Dynamics 365 Sales Premium features to work with your exchange activities.</p> <p>For detailed setup instructions, see <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/set-up-server-side-synchronization-of-email-appointments-contacts-and-tasks\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Set up server-side synchronization of email, appointments, contacts, and tasks</a>.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"02/03/2025",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"04/01/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"f012cc72-e2a0-ef11-8a69-7c1e524a2e12",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Get integrated inbound and outbound calling with Sales Hub dialer",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>As a seller, you spend a big part of your day talking to customers, and the experience is smoother when the dialer integrates seamlessly into the Sales app. The new Sales Hub dialer gives you a modern, integrated calling experience directly inside Dynamics 365 Sales. You can place outbound calls, handle incoming calls, see customer history, take notes, and automatically capture conversation intelligence—without switching apps or losing context.</p> <p>This helps you stay focused, move faster, and have more meaningful customer conversations.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The new Sales Hub dialer brings a built‑in calling experience to Dynamics 365 Sales so you can make, receive, and manage calls with full CRM context and AI insights—all in one place.</p> <p>Key capabilities include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Embedded dialer in Sales Hub</strong>: Use a native calling panel across Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, and Accounts so you can stay in the Sales Hub while handling calls.</li> <li><strong>Click‑to‑call and manual dialing</strong>: Click any phone number to call instantly, search COLA entities, or manually dial using the built‑in keypad.</li> <li><strong>Inbound call handling</strong>: Get clear, actionable notifications when calls come in, with customer match and context surfaced right away.</li> <li><strong>Automatic call logging</strong>: All calls—both inbound and outbound—are saved automatically as phone call activities with duration, direction, and record association.</li> <li><strong>Modern calling controls</strong>: Use familiar controls like mute, hold, resume, consult, and transfer in a single streamlined surface.</li> <li><strong>AI‑powered conversation intelligence</strong>: Get real-time and post-call summaries, transcription, sentiment, action items, and key topics powered by the latest LLMs.</li> <li><strong>Call recording and playback</strong>: Record calls and review them with speaker separation and jump‑to‑insight navigation.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/01/2026",
        "GA date":"05/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"d2eb3344-09fc-f011-8406-000d3a1be30e",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Streamline Quick Campaigns for confident, one-time bulk email outreach",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Quick Campaigns are designed for fast, seller-led outreach such as post-meeting follow-ups, event or webinar recaps, policy updates, or one-time announcements to many customers at once. Today, even simple bulk emails in Quick Campaigns are slow and error prone. Sellers must navigate a multistep wizard, rely on rigid templates, exit the flow to make changes, and use workarounds to gain confidence before sending. This breaks execution momentum and often pushes sellers to Outlook or custom solutions outside Dynamics 365.</p> <p>This release simplifies the Quick Campaigns experience particularly for bulk email scenarios by reducing unnecessary steps, keeping sellers in a single flow, supporting send-specific personalization and improving confidence before send, so sellers can act quickly without leaving the platform or compromising compliance.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Quick Campaigns support multiple bulk activity types (email, tasks, appointments, phone calls). This release focuses on improving the end-to-end experience for bulk email creation, with foundational improvements that benefit the overall Quick Campaigns flow.</p> <p>Key capabilities include:</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Streamlined quick campaign flow</strong>: The existing multistep wizard is simplified for Quick Campaigns creation, including one-time bulk email sends. Sellers can create, review, and send bulk emails with fewer steps and clicks, staying in a single creation surface and focused on execution rather than setup.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>In-flow template creation and editing</strong>: Sellers can create or edit email templates directly within the Quick Campaigns flow. Newly created or updated templates are easy to find and reuse without leaving the experience or restarting setup.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Enhanced template discovery with views</strong>: An improved template picker with a view selector helps sellers quickly find the right template, whether it’s one they created, one shared with them, or a marketing-approved one.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Send-specific edits and template-free bulk emails</strong>: Sellers can make send-specific edits such as adding a personalized greeting, dynamic text, or signature, without overwriting shared templates. For true one-off outreach, sellers can also compose bulk emails from scratch using rich text, dynamic text, and signatures without creating templates.</p> </li> <li><p><strong>Inline template preview and test send</strong>: Sellers can preview the final rendered email inline and send a test email to themselves or a colleague to validate formatting and personalization. This removes the need for duplicate bulk email campaigns and rework, increasing confidence before sending.</p> </li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"07/01/2026",
        "GA date":"09/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"252ca32e-f6fd-f011-8406-7c1e527dbded",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/18/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Customize lead qualification for a seamless experience",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Streamlined lead qualification in Dynamics 365 Sales empowers you to fine-tune the qualification process to match your organization's unique needs and sales criteria. This agile configuration removes unnecessary interactions and saves valuable time, promoting swift, informed lead evaluation.</p> <p>As a sales professional, you benefit from insightful Copilot lead summaries that provide clear and concise lead overviews for informed decision-making. Creating multiple opportunities from a single lead maximizes sales potential, while enhanced collaboration allows for opportunity assignments among team members. Furthermore, eliminating redundant data entry by prepopulating fields of the generated opportunities boosts your productivity and ensures focused efforts on high-value sales activities.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an administrator, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Configure the lead qualification process to ensure that leads are thoroughly evaluated.</li> <li>Enable Copilot to generate a lead qualification summary.</li> <li>Configure the creation of multiple opportunities from a single lead.</li> </ul> <p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Assign newly generated opportunities to other sellers, so you foster collaboration and maximize sales team efficiency.</li> <li>View the AI-generated lead qualification summary after you qualify a lead.</li> <li>Choose to create multiple opportunities from a single lead.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"07/29/2024",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/25/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"93292815-c353-ee11-be6f-00224827ed7b",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Stay efficient with the Copilot overview page",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>The Copilot full-page view in Dynamics 365 Sales helps you excel in sales. Offering real-time insights and effortless natural language chat functionality, it empowers you to efficiently manage sales activities, nurture customer relationships, and drive sales success. This immersive interface provides an expanded workspace, enhancing the focus on productive conversations with Copilot.</p> <p>You can seamlessly access insights from various records and prioritize your actions intelligently. The natural language chat with AI-powered Copilot facilitates deeper insights and quick access to customer details, deal information, meeting schedules, and more. Furthermore, you can easily track your performance using charts through natural language, while an embedded calendar assists in planning and managing your day effectively.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Follow suggested actions to stay ahead in your work.</li> <li>View goal information and how much you have achieved.</li> <li>Find key opportunities to focus on.</li> <li>Prepare for upcoming sales meetings.</li> <li>Stay on top with real-time insights across different&nbsp;entities.</li> <li>Chat with Sales Copilot in an immersive wide-screen&nbsp;experience.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"02/28/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"94c9614f-80d7-ee11-9078-000d3a5474a4",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"09/20/2024",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Jun 2025)","Australia (Jun 2025)","Brazil (Jun 2025)","Canada (Jun 2025)","China (Jun 2025)","Europe (Jun 2025)","France (Jun 2025)","Germany (Jun 2025)","India (Jun 2025)","Japan (Jun 2025)","Norway (Jun 2025)","Qatar (Jun 2025)","Singapore (Jun 2025)","South Africa (Jun 2025)","South Korea (Jun 2025)","Sweden (Jun 2025)","Switzerland (Jun 2025)","United Arab Emirates (Jun 2025)","United Kingdom (Jun 2025)","United States (Jun 2025)"],
        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Chinese (Simplified) (Jul 2025)","Czech (Jul 2025)","Danish (Jul 2025)","Dutch (Jul 2025)","English (United States) (Jul 2025)","Finnish (Jul 2025)","French (Jul 2025)","German (Jul 2025)","Greek (Jul 2025)","Italian (Jul 2025)","Japanese (Jul 2025)","Korean (Jul 2025)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Jul 2025)","Polish (Jul 2025)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Jul 2025)","Russian (Jul 2025)","Spanish (Jul 2025)","Swedish (Jul 2025)","Thai (Jul 2025)","Turkish (Jul 2025)"]
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Analyze opportunities with grouping and aggregating",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>The opportunity pipeline view in Dynamics 365 Sales offers a more empowering experience for opportunity management. By placing you, the seller, at the center of your workflows, it enables you to view your entire pipeline with clarity, gather context quickly, take actions efficiently, and work in a way that suits your needs.</p> <p>With this upgraded pipeline view, you can streamline your sales strategies. You can now group opportunities dynamically based on critical factors such as account name, seller name, or closing date and month. This functionality enhances your ability to segment and target specific areas of your pipeline, ensuring a more personalized and effective approach to each opportunity.</p> <p>In addition to the improved grouping capabilities, Dynamics 365 Sales now facilitates the aggregation of numeric values. You can effortlessly assess the total estimated revenue within your pipeline or within specific grouped segments. This feature provides valuable insights into the financial potential of your opportunities, making it easier to prioritize and focus on deals that contribute significantly to the bottom line.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As a seller, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Group opportunities by account name, seller name, closing date, month, or any other relevant field.</li> <li>Aggregate numeric values such as estimated value and actual revenue in the editable grid.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/12/2024",
        "GA date":"10/20/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"5b417227-c353-ee11-be6f-000d3a574bff",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"08/14/2025"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Enrich opportunity data with AI-powered meeting intelligence",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>When opportunity data is incomplete or outdated, you spend more time chasing details and less time making confident sales decisions. Forecasts become less reliable, and deal reviews take longer than they should.</p> <p>With AI‑powered Data Enrichment, you automatically receive timely, relevant suggestions to fill data gaps based on real customer interactions, such as emails and meetings. You reduce manual updates, gain greater confidence in pipeline health, and run faster, more focused deal reviews that help you move opportunities forward.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>AI‑powered Data Enrichment helps you keep opportunity data accurate and current by automatically surfacing relevant insights from multiple sources. With this enhancement, you get meeting intelligence that:</p> <ul> <li>Extracts deal context from Microsoft Teams calls and recorded meetings.</li> <li>Extends email‑based intelligence to spoken conversations so you capture insights from both written and verbal sales interactions.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"06/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"9b29c83d-f6fd-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bb2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Sales",
        "Feature name":"Visualize and work with hierarchical data",
        "Investment area":"Seller experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>When your large customers have multiple accounts, contacts, locations, and other related data, sellers can miss important customer opportunities and signals. A seller might not see the recent win in another region or notice an influential decision maker is unhappy with a related project. Presenting data hierarchically allows your organization to see, understand, and act on data in its relational context quickly and effectively.</p> <p>The new Hierarchy control in Dynamics 365 Sales provides your organization with an intuitive visualization of your data. With this view, sellers can see important connections, such as common decision makers, and quickly take action with less effort. Define custom visualizations for your sellers and other teams that highlight the most important data and relationships for your customer's accounts, people, opportunities, and custom tables like householding and financial instruments. A hierarchical visualization lets your sellers and other team members see your customer's organization like never before. Because the hierarchy view provides full editability of the records you choose to display, your team can easily view, edit, and update customer information right in context without leaving the visualization.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Visual hierarchies enable your sellers to view and work with data graphically.</p> <p><strong>Single table (self-referential) hierarchies</strong></p> <p>Unlock the ability to show a hierarchy of records from a single table, such as a hierarchy of accounts. Any standard or elastic table in Dataverse with a self-referential relationship can be displayed as a hierarchy.</p> <p><strong>Multi-table hierarchies</strong></p> <p>These advanced capabilities allow you to create hierarchies that use:</p> <ul> <li>Multiple tables in a single hierarchy, such as an account with a child group of contacts that each have a child group of opportunities under each contact.</li> <li>Different views of the same table in a hierarchy, such as showing a group of open opportunities under an account and a separate group of closed opportunities under the account.</li> <li>Different types of table relationships, including 1:Many and Many:Many relationships.</li> <li>Row-level relationships using the Dataverse connection table, allowing you to filter relationships using Views or connection Roles.</li> <li>Your own custom connection tables, allowing you to display your own flexible custom relationship patterns.</li> <li>Hybrid hierarchies that mix self-referential relationships with cross-table relationships, creating complex hierarchies that visualize your data exactly the way you choose.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Configurable</strong></p> <ul> <li>Admins define hierarchy views for their teams. The feature currently supports single-table hierarchies, with support for multiple-table complex hierarchies coming later.</li> <li>Customize what data appears on each tile, along with the size, color, and picture or icon. You can show up to seven fields on each tile to create the perfect view for your sellers.</li> <li>Define hierarchies by using relationships in your data. You can use single-table (self-referencing) relationships, cross-table relationships, or the Dataverse Connections table for flexible relationships between any two records.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Intuitive</strong></p> <ul> <li>Zoom in and out and expand and collapse branches so you can efficiently work with customers of all sizes.</li> <li>Switch between vertical and horizontal display modes to optimize the view based on the shape of the hierarchy.</li> <li>Select a tile to open the details form in a side pane, so you can make updates, add meeting notes, and make other edits without leaving the hierarchy view.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Getting started</strong></p> <p>When signed in to Sales Hub, an admin can select <strong>Visual hierarchy</strong> in the <strong>App settings</strong> menu to go to the hierarchy designer. The admin will design and publish a hierarchy to their organization. Once published, sales team members viewing a form or grid for the table with the hierarchy can select <strong>View hierarchy</strong> on the command bar to open the hierarchy view for that record. <strong>View hierarchy</strong> is added by default to the forms and grids for the Contact, Opportunity, Lead, and Account tables.</p> <p>For other tables, administrators must perform steps to add the button. Hierarchies can also be displayed on a tab in a form. If that is the first tab, the hierarchy view becomes the default view your teams can interact with. Users must be granted access to hierarchies using the Power Platform admin center, allowing you fine-grain control over which users or groups can view a hierarchy as needed.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/29/2025",
        "GA date":"10/29/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"98cd36e4-9ada-ef11-a730-7c1e526872ab",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Protect sensitive information in emails with data sensitivity labels",
        "Investment area":"Administrator experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>By adding data sensitivity labels to emails, you enhance your data security when service representatives classify and protect sensitive information. This feature enables secure collaboration, reduces the risk of data breaches, and offers customization flexibility for managing different types of sensitive information.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Data sensitivity labels can help customer service representatives properly label their outgoing emails.</p> <p>With data sensitivity labels, you get the following benefits:</p> <ul> <li>Easy classification and protection of sensitive information.</li> <li>Compliance with regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).</li> <li>Improved user awareness about sensitive information.</li> <li>Streamlined data management through centralized label creation and application.</li> <li>Integration with other Microsoft services for consistent data protection across apps.</li> </ul> <p>To make data sensitivity labels available in email, admins must add and publish the labels. To add and publish the labels, admins need the required roles and privileges in Microsoft Purview and Dynamics 365 Customer Service.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"fb4fd457-d9e2-ef11-a730-7c1e521b85a2",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (May 1, 2026)","Australia (May 1, 2026)","Brazil (May 1, 2026)","Canada (May 1, 2026)","China (May 1, 2026)","Europe (May 1, 2026)","France (May 1, 2026)","Germany (May 1, 2026)","India (May 1, 2026)","Italy (May 1, 2026)","Japan (May 1, 2026)","New Zealand (May 1, 2026)","Norway (May 1, 2026)","Poland (May 1, 2026)","Qatar (May 1, 2026)","Singapore (May 1, 2026)","South Africa (May 1, 2026)","South Korea (May 1, 2026)","Spain (May 1, 2026)","Sweden (May 1, 2026)","Switzerland (May 1, 2026)","United Arab Emirates (May 1, 2026)","United Kingdom (May 1, 2026)","United States (May 1, 2026)","US DoD (Not Supported)","US GCC (Not Supported)","US GCC High (Not Supported)","US Gov (Not Supported)","US Nat (Not Supported)","US Sec (Not Supported)"]
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Option sets for field mapping in integrated search",
        "Investment area":"Administrator experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>In addition to the out-of-the-box target fields, you can add custom target fields for mapping such as multi-select or single-select option sets.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As part of adding an integrated search provider in Customer Service, you need to tell the service how to ingest the knowledge articles it receives from the provider. You do that by selecting and configuring a knowledge article schema.</p> <p>When you configure knowledge article schema through field mapping, you map a knowledge article received from the search provider (the source property) to an attribute of the knowledge article entity (the target), based on an operation type. This feature allows you to add more article attributes in the Customer Service admin center site map, and thereby define the custom target fields for mapping.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"08/28/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"dffff2a1-6acf-ee11-9079-002248244c88",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"07/31/2024"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Simulate AI case enrichment with Case Management Agent",
        "Investment area":"Administrator experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Simulation enables administrators to assess how the Case Management Agent performs case enrichment, evaluate the quality of those predictions before enabling the feature in production, and streamline the testing process by reducing the time required for manual validation.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p><strong>Key capabilities</strong></p> <p>Administrators can run case enrichment simulations using:</p> <ul> <li>Historical case records</li> <li>Uploaded Excel files</li> <li>Email or conversation transcripts</li> </ul> <p>Simulation displays the Case Management Agent’s predicted field values based on the selected records or uploaded data.</p> <p><strong>Simulation using historical case records</strong></p> <p>Administrators select a set of historical cases to evaluate prediction quality. The condition builder allows filtering. For example, cases from the last seven days or cases related to Contoso Coffee Maker. After running the simulation, administrators can:</p> <ul> <li>View predicted field values.</li> <li>Compare existing field values with predicted values.</li> <li>Assess field prediction accuracy.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Simulation using email or conversation transcripts</strong></p> <p>Administrators can upload emails or conversation transcripts for prediction. Each row in the Excel file represents one email or conversation transcript. The simulation generates predicted field values for each row. Emails or conversations can be extracted from the activity table and uploaded for bulk evaluation.</p> <p><strong>Simulation using Excel upload</strong></p> <p>Administrators can upload an Excel file where each row contains a single email or conversation message. The system generates field predictions for each entry. Results help identify how the Case Management Agent would process incoming communications.</p> <p><strong>Evaluate and improve prediction quality</strong></p> <p>Simulation results help administrators validate prediction quality before enabling the feature in production. Based on results, administrators can adjust the Case Management Agent configuration. Simulations can be rerun after configuration updates to measure improvement.</p> <p>This iterative approach helps identify optimization opportunities and ensures reliable predictions before the feature is turned on for the organization.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"03/06/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"be6990b4-7dda-f011-8544-7ced8d1ab86c",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/26/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use one record creation and update rule for multiple queues",
        "Investment area":"Administrator experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>When you configure one automatic record creation and update rule for multiple queues, you reduce the time it takes to set up and maintain rules.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Previously, administrators could select only one queue for each rule. As an administrator, you can now add multiple queues to monitor for new automatic record creation and update rules in the Copilot Service admin center app.</p> <p>You can go to <strong>Case settings</strong> &gt; <strong>Automatic record creation</strong> and update rules. When you associate new automatic record creation and update rules with multiple queues, you can create records based on the rule conditions from queue items in any of the queues. For example, if you associate an email-to-case rule with two email queues, you can create a rule when an email arrives in either of the two queues. Previously, you needed separate rules for each queue.</p> <p>With this update, you don't need to duplicate automatic record creation and update rules for each queue. You can use a common rule for multiple queues.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"07/11/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"73aa42f9-6315-f011-998a-6045bddb894e",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Jul 11, 2025)","Australia (Jul 11, 2025)"]
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Improve customer outcomes with Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Bring the familiar Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience directly into Dynamics 365 Customer Service, so supervisors, leads, and customer service representatives can get answers, summarize work, and take next steps using both Dynamics 365 data and Microsoft 365 context, without switching tools.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is becoming a consistent way that users interact with AI across Microsoft experiences. With this update, that same chat experience is available in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, with service-aware grounding and workflows.</p> <p>Service users can start in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and then:</p> <ul> <li>See and prioritize work (for example, top cases and what needs attention).</li> <li>Draft customer communications and prepare next steps with Microsoft 365 context when relevant.</li> <li>Identify trends and operational signals across cases to help supervisors and leads intervene earlier.</li> <li>Discover answers from support knowledge.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/31/2026",
        "GA date":"06/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"e0d90b5e-4f01-f111-8407-6045bda6fd8f",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Summarize base records and related records with Copilot",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Case and custom record summaries help admins quickly catch up on a case or relevant record. When you configure related records to show a summary in the same summarization control, support reps can quickly see if any related records to a case contain critical information and updates they need to review. They can also get a summary of those updates.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>You can summarize related records within a case and custom record summary.</p> <p>This feature helps support representatives:</p> <ul> <li>Understand if a related record to a case or any other entity where you configure summarization has key information and updates.</li> <li>View updates inline in the case or custom record summary control.</li> <li>Receive a summary of two related records by default.</li> <li>Generate two summaries at a time, for all the records that link to that base record.</li> <li>Select the record ID and view the related record.</li> </ul> <p>Administrators can turn on this feature and set up the field that defines the relationship between the base entity and related entities in the Copilot Service admin center.</p> <p>With this feature, support reps and admins can customize the summarization experience. For example, you can customize the experience for a custom entity, such as <strong>Work Order</strong>. You can configure case summaries to show linked work order summaries in descending order by the modification date. Service reps can select <strong>Summarize more records</strong> to generate extra work order summaries. This option lets them quickly review business details without opening each related record.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/02/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"8b7e72de-ad1c-f011-9989-7c1e52199c3e",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Customize formatting and headers for case and custom record summaries",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Case and custom record summaries help users catch up on lengthy, long-running cases and custom records. These summaries often include dense text. This feature helps structure the content so users can catch up quickly.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>When you customize the formatting for case and custom record summaries, you can organize your content. This customization makes it easier for service representatives to read records. It also helps representatives quickly bring up important information from their cases so they can provide customer service faster.</p> <p>The feature includes the following capabilities:</p> <ul> <li>Two formatting modes for case summaries and custom record summaries: paragraph and structured.</li> <li>Paragraph formatting stays the same. For structured formatting, admins can specify up to five custom headers to organize the summary.</li> <li>Custom headers can include a short description to clarify what information from the record goes into the summary.</li> <li>Admins can deselect configured headers without deleting them.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/28/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"7096a0c4-c8ff-ef11-bae3-000d3a1a25a0",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use enhanced admin options for Case Management Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Case Management Agent can now be configured in minutes, significantly accelerating automation rollout. The streamlined setup experience reduces reliance on specialized admin expertise, minimizes configuration errors through built‑in previews and validation checks, and helps organizations deploy AI-driven case management faster and with greater confidence.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The key configuration enhancements for setting up Case Management Agent in the Copilot Service admin center are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Guided, step-by-step setup flow for creating and configuring Case Management Agent.</li> <li>Quick-start experience with prebuilt templates for enrichment, follow-up, and closure scenarios.</li> <li>No code or low code configuration for automation rules and triggers.</li> <li>Centralized control panel for enrichment, follow-up, and closure settings.</li> <li>Inline preview and test run capability during configuration.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"01/05/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"e49e7913-0c03-f111-8407-7c1e525b191d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"02/25/2026",
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Automate case lifecycle tasks with Case Management Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Case Management Agent saves customer service representatives time by automating case details during live chats and from incoming emails. It reduces conversation wrap-up time. By sending follow-up emails and resolving cases automatically, the agent improves service representative efficiency and satisfaction by eliminating manual administrative tasks. The agent also identifies experts automatically and prompts customer service representatives to collaborate with them directly through Teams chat. It provides a seamless experience by automatically summarizing the case context. Collaboration summaries integrate into the application, enhancing the knowledge base and minimizing the need for future collaborations.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>When a customer service representative accepts a live chat, the Case Management Agent automatically creates a case and fills in the required information. As the conversation continues, representatives can use the agent to update case fields in real time. When the conversation ends, the agent automatically updates the case fields.</p> <p>Similarly, when automatic record creation (ARC) rules convert an email into a case, the system automatically extracts the required information from the email. The case stays up to date as the customer sends new emails.</p> <p>Email classification uses AI to categorize incoming emails into predefined categories. With this classification, you can automate support workflows. For example, you can skip case creation for \"thank you\" emails or marketing spam emails, and create cases only for relevant inquiries. This classification helps optimize support processes, improve productivity, and reduce operational costs.</p> <p>The Case Management Agent gives you intelligent collaboration prompts with one click. It automatically finds the right experts and creates a concise case summary to help collaborators get up to speed quickly. The case timeline captures collaboration insights, which streamlines future processes.</p> <p>The agent also tracks cases that need attention. It sends follow-up emails based on SLA criteria. When a customer responds, the agent resolves the case or alerts the service representative. These capabilities boost the efficiency of case creation and closure. They reduce case handling time.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/10/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"b852f18d-9d87-ef11-ac21-7c1e524913e3",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"View the enhanced user experience for Copilot summaries",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Case summaries and custom record summaries help users get up to speed with their cases or other records. This benefit drives efficiencies for customer service representatives across their workflows. By being available in a new user interface at the top of the form, all users can easily access these features. The functionality and behavior of the summaries stay the same. Users of any model-driven app that uses the incident entity, except for Copilot Service Workspace and Copilot Service Hub, get this feature by default.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As part of this update, the Case Summary and Custom Record Summary features in Dynamics 365 Customer Service appear at the top of the form. You don't need to configure a custom control to enable the feature. Also, the case summary feature is enabled by default for any users of any model-driven app that uses the incident entity. This change applies to all forms except four out-of-the-box forms: <strong>Case for Interactive experience</strong>, <strong>Enhanced full case form</strong>, <strong>Case</strong>, and <strong>Case for Multisession experience</strong>.</p> <p>This change doesn't affect the summarization feature. For example, the following actions are still available:</p> <ul> <li>Render the summary by selecting the generate button after you open the form.</li> <li>Copy the summary after it's generated.</li> <li>Give thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback on the generated summary. Support representatives can also give verbatim feedback if they select thumbs-down.</li> <li>Store the usage data in Dataverse so customers can access it.</li> <li>Regenerate the summary.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Auto-enable Case Summarization guidelines</strong></p> <ul> <li>If you enable a case summary on one of the four default forms, the summary doesn't change, and it stays in the same place on the form.</li> <li>If you don't enable a case summary on one of the four default forms, the feature auto-enables the case summary, and the summary shows up in the form.</li> <li>If you enable a case summary on a form other than the four default forms, you might see both the old and new experiences. To make sure the transition goes smoothly, admins disable the custom summarization UI control before this change happens.</li> </ul> <p>The feature doesn't automatically turn on case summary for organizations that opt out of auto-enablement of Copilot features.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/09/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"55e61480-4004-f011-bae2-000d3a990cc2",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"08/07/2025"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Define critical questions in evaluation criteria",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Critical questions in evaluation criteria ensure evaluations accurately reflect business‑critical quality standards. Supervisors can define non‑negotiable questions within evaluation criteria that automatically fail evaluations when interactions don't meet required standards.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The critical questions feature allows supervisors to mark one or more questions within an evaluation criterion as critical and define the specific responses that result in a failure.</p> <p>When the evaluation criteria are applied during an evaluation run and if any critical question fails, the entire evaluation is automatically marked as failed, regardless of other scores. This criteria ensures that business‑essential requirements such as compliance, safety, or mandatory disclosures are always enforced.</p> <p>Critical questions integrate seamlessly with the Quality Evaluation Agent framework including criteria versioning and simulations allowing supervisors to validate changes before publishing while maintaining consistent, auditable quality outcomes.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"04/17/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Configure custom instructions in Copilot Ask a question",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Custom instructions help Copilot deliver consistent, on‑brand, and preference‑aligned responses without requiring users to restate context. Organizations can define how Copilot should behave including tone, depth, format, and constraints to improve response quality, user satisfaction, and trust.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Custom instructions let organizations define persistent preferences that guide how Copilot responds in Ask a question. Instead of providing the same guidance in every prompt, customers can specify upfront how they want Copilot to behave across conversations.</p> <p>Instruction types can include:</p> <ul> <li>Preferred tone (for example, concise, formal, or conversational)</li> <li>Level of detail (summary versus in-depth analysis)</li> <li>Formatting preferences (bulleted lists, tables, or structured sections)</li> <li>Role or context for Copilot to assume (for example, a customer service representative)</li> <li>Constraints to follow (such as avoiding jargon or asking follow-up questions when input is unclear)</li> </ul> <p><strong>How it works</strong></p> <p>After you save custom instructions, Copilot automatically applies them to future interactions. Copilot uses these instructions as a guiding layer when generating responses, helping ensure consistent behavior while still adapting to each prompt.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"02/28/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"39e76215-4e01-f111-8407-6045bda6fd8f",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Update knowledge base using Customer Knowledge Management Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Customer Knowledge Management Agent automatically turns untapped case and case-related conversation data into knowledge that supports your contact center. Customer Knowledge Management Agent harvests knowledge from cases in real time as service representatives close cases, helping your contact center respond to emerging issues in minutes. You don't have to wait weeks or months for long knowledge lifecycles. With historical article creation, Customer Knowledge Management Agent helps you quickly turn your historical case data (including case-related conversations, emails, case notes, and other details) into ready-to-use knowledge articles.</p> <p>With actionable knowledge insights, supervisors and content managers monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent and the health and usage of knowledge that Copilot uses. Tailored analytics empower users to enhance the quality and relevance of knowledge articles, resulting in more accurate Copilot guidance. This feature boosts productivity and decision-making accuracy, leading to improved user satisfaction and operational efficiency.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With real-time creation, Customer Knowledge Management Agent analyzes the case when agents close it. The agent analyzes case-related notes, conversations, and emails to draft a knowledge article that fills knowledge gaps and helps your organization respond to emerging issues in minutes. Customer Knowledge Management Agent compares the content of the case against your Dynamics 365 knowledge base to determine if a new article is needed. The agent also ensures that content isn't duplicated. It can even update existing articles with new information. It ensures compliance by removing sensitive data. You can extend the agent with custom automated compliance checks from your organization.</p> <p>It can automatically publish the article, if configured to do so. Depending on your configuration, the agent makes the article accessible to support representatives, Copilot, and even self-service portals. Supervisors can review, edit, and monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent's work.</p> <p><img src=\"media/customerknowledgemanagementinsights22.png\" alt=\"Insights help supervisors monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent.\" title=\"Insights help supervisors monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent.\" data-linktype=\"relative-path\"></p> <!-- Picture 1 --> <p>The historical creation process gives the Customer Knowledge Management Agent the ability to unlock knowledge from your historical cases. It turns raw case data into ready-to-publish knowledge articles while preventing duplication, ensuring compliance, and giving supervisors tools to monitor the agent's work.</p> <p>Knowledge insights give supervisors the information they need to assess and confirm the agent's ability to create reliable content for internal and external use. Supervisors can take quick actions to improve the knowledge repository and create the best Copilot experiences.</p> <p>Supervisors who use the Customer Knowledge Management Agent automatically get this feature. When you set the autonomous-level preference to semi-autonomous or fully autonomous, the dashboard shows you performances for that level. The dashboard shows performances from draft creation to publishing. It also shows how Copilot uses the articles. The dashboard guides supervisors to articles that need review and that are nearing expiration. With this guidance, supervisors can take care of high-priority articles quickly.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/31/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"17bd737e-24e2-ee11-904d-000d3a55b688",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Apr 1, 2025)","Australia (Apr 1, 2025)","Brazil (Apr 1, 2025)","Canada (Apr 1, 2025)","Europe (Apr 1, 2025)","France (Mar 31, 2025)","Germany (Apr 1, 2025)","India (Apr 1, 2025)","Japan (Apr 1, 2025)","Norway (Apr 1, 2025)","Singapore (Apr 1, 2025)","South Africa (Apr 1, 2025)","South Korea (Apr 1, 2025)","Switzerland (Apr 1, 2025)","United Arab Emirates (Apr 1, 2025)","United Kingdom (Apr 1, 2025)","United States (Apr 1, 2025)","US GCC (Jun 2026)","US GCC High (Jun 2026)"],
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Enable agent authentication for plugins",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Customer Service agents use connector plugins to get information from external data sources. This process needs either administrator-level authentication or agent-level authentication. Currently, the system supports only administrator-level authentication for connector plugins. When you add support for agent-level authentication, organizations get more flexibility to manage authentication at the agent level or administrator level. With agent-level authentication, only agents who have access to external data sources can access data through connector plugins. This permission level removes the risk that an administrator's credentials become stale and make connector plugins inaccessible to agents.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>In the Customer Service admin center, administrators can turn connector plugins on or off. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Service uses these plugins. With a plugin wizard, administrators can set up authentication for administrators only or for agents.</p> <p>When you set up agent authentication, your organization gets more flexibility. You can manage authentication for both administrators and agents.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"10/30/2024",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"1a2a4d06-b659-ef11-a317-6045bdd88b0e",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Extend Quality Evaluation Agent evaluation criteria",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Extend Quality Evaluation Agent evaluation criteria to standardize quality across the organization while enabling teams to adapt criteria to their unique workflows.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Extend quality standards with governance, versioning, and transparent outcomes.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Establish a base criteria set</strong>: Define source evaluation criteria that represent core quality standards and brand principles.</li> <li><strong>Enable business‑unit extensions</strong>: Teams extend the base criteria with business-unit specific requirements while inheriting the same foundational standards, ensuring a consistent source of truth.</li> <li><strong>Auto‑propagate updates</strong>: Changes to the source criteria automatically flow to all extended versions, keeping standards aligned without manual effort.</li> <li><strong>Support versioning and simulation</strong>: Supervisors can review version history, select any criteria version, and run simulations to validate updates before publishing.</li> <li><strong>Provide clear outcome visibility</strong>: Evaluation results show scores derived from both the base criteria and business-unit extensions, improving transparency, comparison, and confidence in quality measurements.</li> </ul> <p>Together, these capabilities allow teams to evolve quality standards at scale while maintaining governance, consistency, and clarity across all customer engagements.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"02/06/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"5fe0cb66-18fe-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["United States (Feb 6, 2026)"]
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Enable governance policy",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Governance policy helps organizations protect their brand, customers, and business by applying configurable rules to AI‑assisted and autonomous customer communications. These measures ensure responses comply with business, legal, and regulatory standards before reaching customers, reducing risk while maintaining consistent interaction quality.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Create and enforce policies that prevent risky or noncompliant customer communications.</p> <p>Governance policy checks act as a configurable safeguard that evaluates AI‑generated and autonomous email responses before they are sent to customers. These checks enforce business, legal, and regulatory requirements by validating responses for relevance, prohibited content, and sensitive topics. When a response fails a policy check, Governance blocks delivery and provides clear visibility into the reason for the violation, helping supervisors review issues and improve outcomes.</p> <p>Governance applies consistently across email engagement channels and integrates seamlessly into agent workflows, ensuring uniform enforcement of quality and compliance standards without added manual effort. This enables organizations to confidently scale AI‑assisted and autonomous customer engagement while maintaining trust, safety, and governance.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"05/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"8241b35d-2409-f111-8407-000d3a57304d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use Copilot to generate contextual partial email content",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Inline Copilot boosts service representative productivity by reducing manual effort during email composition. When service representatives add extra content with Copilot's help, they improve the quality of the emails. This flexibility lets service representatives include relevant information, which enhances the accuracy and overall quality of the emails. By cutting down on back-and-forth interactions, this approach raises customer satisfaction (CSAT).</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Customer service representatives can now use the inline email Copilot feature while drafting an email. With this feature, they can get AI assistance at any point during email composition. This enhancement helps representatives generate relevant partial drafts by using the existing email assist functionality. It seamlessly integrates with the ongoing content-boosting efficiency and response quality.</p> <p><img src=\"media/copilot-partial-draft.png\" alt=\"Copilot email assist generating a partial email draft\" title=\"Copilot email assist generating a partial email draft\" data-linktype=\"relative-path\"></p> <p>You can use this functionality in the inline editor only. It's not available in the Copilot help pane.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"07/31/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"ad071798-a981-ef11-ac21-6045bddc55e6",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"11/18/2025",
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        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Support multilingual evaluation criteria",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Multi‑language evaluation criteria enable supervisors to define quality standards in the languages used by their teams and customers. Evaluations return results in the same language, improving clarity, adoption, and trust in quality outcomes across regions.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Supervisors can define evaluation criteria in a chosen language, including questions, instructions, and scoring. Quality Evaluation Agent evaluates customer engagements and returns outcomes, explanations, and insights in the same language end‑to‑end.</p> <p>Language‑specific criteria integrate seamlessly with Quality Evaluation Agent capabilities such as versioning and simulation, enabling teams to validate changes and evolve quality standards confidently. This supports global organizations in scaling quality programs while accommodating multilingual customer engagements and localized operations.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"02/27/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"3f1a518d-24fe-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Control evaluation volume with sampling",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent advanced sampling gives supervisors precise control over how many interactions are evaluated. By adding sampling to condition‑based evaluation plans, organizations can scale quality programs sustainably, reduce noise, and focus effort where it matters most without overwhelming reviewers or budgets.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With advanced sampling, Quality Evaluation Agent evaluation plans support sampling in addition to existing condition builders. Supervisors define conditions to identify relevant interactions, then apply sampling rules to limit how many of those interactions are evaluated on each run.</p> <p>Sampling options include:</p> <ul> <li>Percentage‑based sampling to evaluate a defined number of qualifying interactions.</li> <li>Absolute count sampling to cap the total number of interactions evaluated per schedule.</li> </ul> <p>This keeps evaluations focused and manageable while delivering representative quality insights. Sampling works seamlessly with scheduled evaluation plans, helping supervisors balance coverage, cost, and operational load as quality programs scale.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"04/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/16/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Arabic (Apr 17, 2026)","Chinese (Simplified) (Apr 17, 2026)","Chinese (Traditional) (Apr 17, 2026)","Czech (Apr 17, 2026)","Danish (Apr 17, 2026)","Dutch (Apr 17, 2026)","English (Australia) (Not Supported)","English (Canada) (Not Supported)","English (United Kingdom) (Not Supported)","English (United States) (Apr 17, 2026)","Finnish (Apr 17, 2026)","French (Apr 17, 2026)","French (Canada) (Not Supported)","German (Apr 17, 2026)","Greek (Apr 17, 2026)","Hebrew (Apr 17, 2026)","Hindi (Apr 17, 2026)","Indonesian (Apr 17, 2026)","Italian (Apr 17, 2026)","Japanese (Apr 17, 2026)","Korean (Apr 17, 2026)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Apr 17, 2026)","Polish (Apr 17, 2026)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Apr 17, 2026)","Portuguese (Portugal) (Apr 17, 2026)","Russian (Apr 17, 2026)","Spanish (Apr 17, 2026)","Spanish (Mexico) (Not Supported)","Spanish (United States) (Not Supported)","Swedish (Apr 17, 2026)","Thai (Apr 17, 2026)","Turkish (Apr 17, 2026)","Vietnamese (Apr 17, 2026)"]
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Evaluate cases with Quality Evaluation Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent automatically reviews cases and assigns quality scores along with detailed evaluation insights. These insights help supervisors to identify improvement areas and enhance case-handling quality.</p> <p>The Evaluation Framework defines business quality standards for all agents, human and AI, using comprehensive evaluation criteria. With predefined evaluation plans, the framework automatically assesses case interactions based on specific conditions.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The Quality Evaluation Agent for case evaluations enables supervisors to automatically assess support case records using customizable evaluation criteria. Available in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and managed through the Copilot Service admin center, this feature allows administrators to enable or disable the Quality Evaluation Agent and ensures that only authorized users with the required permissions can access evaluation results.</p> <p>Supervisors can define evaluation criteria using natural language or structured templates, assign scoring weights, and configure evaluation plans to run on-demand or at scheduled intervals. Evaluations are performed by the Quality Evaluation Agent and surfaced in the dashboard with actionable insights, detailed scoring breakdowns, and coaching recommendations.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/24/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Arabic (Feb 6, 2026)","Chinese (Simplified) (Feb 6, 2026)","Chinese (Traditional) (Feb 6, 2026)","Czech (Feb 6, 2026)","Danish (Feb 6, 2026)","Dutch (Feb 6, 2026)","English (Australia) (Not Supported)","English (Canada) (Not Supported)","English (United Kingdom) (Not Supported)","English (United States) (Feb 6, 2026)","Finnish (Feb 6, 2026)","French (Feb 6, 2026)","French (Canada) (Not Supported)","German (Feb 6, 2026)","Greek (Feb 6, 2026)","Hebrew (Feb 6, 2026)","Hindi (Feb 6, 2026)","Indonesian (Feb 6, 2026)","Italian (Feb 6, 2026)","Japanese (Feb 6, 2026)","Korean (Feb 6, 2026)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Feb 6, 2026)","Polish (Feb 6, 2026)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Feb 6, 2026)","Portuguese (Portugal) (Feb 6, 2026)","Russian (Feb 6, 2026)","Spanish (Feb 6, 2026)","Spanish (Mexico) (Not Supported)","Spanish (United States) (Not Supported)","Swedish (Feb 6, 2026)","Thai (Feb 6, 2026)","Turkish (Feb 6, 2026)","Vietnamese (Feb 6, 2026)"]
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Evaluate emails with Quality Evaluation Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent automatically reviews email records and assigns quality scores along with detailed evaluation insights. These insights help supervisors to identify improvement areas and enhance the quality of customer interactions.</p> <p>The Evaluation Framework defines business quality standards for both representatives and agents, using comprehensive evaluation criteria. With predefined evaluation plans, the framework automatically assesses email interactions based on specific conditions.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The Quality Evaluation Agent for email evaluations enables supervisors to automatically assess support case records using customizable evaluation criteria. Available in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and managed through the Copilot Service admin center, this feature allows administrators to enable or disable the agent and ensures that only authorized users with the required permissions can access evaluation results.</p> <p>Supervisors can define evaluation criteria using natural language or structured templates, assign scoring weights, and configure evaluation plans to run on demand or at scheduled intervals. The Quality Evaluation Agent performs evaluations and provides results in a dashboard with actionable insights, detailed scoring breakdowns, and coaching recommendations.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"589baf8b-e408-f111-8407-000d3a57304d",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/22/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Evaluate cases in bulk with Quality Evaluation Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent bulk case evaluation automates scheduled assessments across targeted cases, enabling consistent quality monitoring, early issue detection, and reliable performance measurement without manual effort.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Schedule, run, and track quality evaluations across cases automatically.</p> <p>Quality Evaluation Agent bulk cases evaluation lets supervisors create evaluation plans directly on case records and execute them on a defined schedule (for example, daily). Each plan targets a specific subset of cases based on supervisor‑defined conditions, ensuring evaluations focus on the most relevant interactions.</p> <p>Supervisors can edit evaluation plans at any time, with updates applied to future runs while past executions remain preserved for reference. Every execution is logged in a run history view, providing full visibility into when evaluations ran, which cases were included, and how quality outcomes evolved over time.</p> <p>Bulk evaluations automatically reference the published evaluation criteria version active at runtime. This ensures consistent and traceable quality measurements as standards evolve.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"10/24/2025",
        "GA date":"03/20/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"dea4d0e7-1afe-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/26/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Manage criteria versions for Quality Evaluation Agent",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent criteria versioning allows supervisors to update and improve evaluation criteria while protecting ongoing customer engagement measurements. It enables teams to iterate, validate, and refine criteria without disrupting active quality runs, ensuring consistency, reliability, and operational continuity across the organization.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Use built‑in versioning to edit, test, and publish evaluation criteria.</p> <p>Quality Evaluation Agent criteria versioning enables supervisors to update evaluation criteria that are actively used to measure customer engagement quality. Each modification automatically generates a new version, ensuring that ongoing evaluations continue to run against the previously published version without interruption.</p> <p>All versions are available in the evaluation criteria <strong>Versioning History</strong> tab, providing complete visibility into how the criteria have evolved. Supervisors can review earlier versions, restore any version to make it the current one, or discard draft updates as required.</p> <p>To support informed publishing decisions, supervisors can run simulations on any criteria version to preview Quality Evaluation Agent generated outcomes. Simulation results remain visible only to the supervisor and aren't stored in customer engagement records or reflected in organizational quality scores. This allows teams to validate changes, fine‑tune instructions, and confirm expected behavior before releasing updated criteria for live evaluations.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"02/06/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"a5ced3dd-0ffe-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["United States (Feb 6, 2026)"]
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Validate criteria using Quality Evaluation Agent simulation",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Quality Evaluation Agent simulation enables supervisors and quality managers to validate new or revised evaluation criteria against real customer engagement data and review predicted outcomes prior to broad deployment. This minimizes trial‑and‑error, promotes alignment on expected quality standards, and strengthens confidence in automated evaluations by ensuring that criteria work as intended before being used in recurring assessments.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Simulate evaluation criteria on a controlled set of real customer engagements to validate Quality Evaluation Agent predictions, iterate, and then publish.</p> <ul> <li>Run simulations directly from evaluation criteria to assess how the criteria scores real cases or conversations, without affecting production evaluation history.</li> <li>Select specific records to test using filtering and conditions, allowing supervisors to validate predictions against the most relevant interaction scenarios.</li> <li>Review predicted answers and outcomes from the Quality Evaluation Agent to verify whether the criteria perform as intended, then adjust questions or instructions and rerun simulations as needed.</li> <li>Test both draft and published criteria safely, with governance tied to criteria versioning to maintain clarity on what has been validated prior to publication.</li> <li>Track all simulation runs, including reruns and retriggered workflows, to support efficient iteration during tuning and readiness.</li> <li>Publish when ready after criteria has been validated through simulation. Supervisors can confidently publish updates for use in organization‑wide quality evaluations.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"02/06/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"617d17d7-07fe-f011-8407-6045bdefe3b8",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Arabic (Feb 6, 2026)","Chinese (Simplified) (Feb 6, 2026)","Chinese (Traditional) (Feb 6, 2026)","Czech (Feb 6, 2026)","Danish (Feb 6, 2026)","Dutch (Feb 6, 2026)","English (Australia) (Not Supported)","English (Canada) (Not Supported)","English (United Kingdom) (Not Supported)","English (United States) (Feb 6, 2026)","Finnish (Feb 6, 2026)","French (Feb 6, 2026)","French (Canada) (Not Supported)","German (Feb 6, 2026)","Greek (Feb 6, 2026)","Hebrew (Feb 6, 2026)","Hindi (Feb 6, 2026)","Indonesian (Feb 6, 2026)","Italian (Feb 6, 2026)","Japanese (Feb 6, 2026)","Korean (Feb 6, 2026)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Feb 6, 2026)","Polish (Feb 6, 2026)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Feb 6, 2026)","Portuguese (Portugal) (Feb 6, 2026)","Russian (Feb 6, 2026)","Spanish (Feb 6, 2026)","Spanish (Mexico) (Not Supported)","Spanish (United States) (Not Supported)","Swedish (Feb 6, 2026)","Thai (Feb 6, 2026)","Turkish (Feb 6, 2026)","Vietnamese (Feb 6, 2026)"]
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use shadow mode for Case Management Agent predictions",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Reduce risk and accelerate AI adoption by validating Case Management Agent performance on real cases without impacting customers or operations.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p><strong>How it works</strong></p> <p>Enable shadow mode in Case Management Agent settings for selected lines of business or case rules. The system generates predicted outcomes only, including:</p> <ul> <li>Identified customer intent.</li> <li>Drafted response content.</li> <li>Proposed field updates.</li> <li>Recommended follow‑up or resolution actions.</li> </ul> <p>No customer‑facing communication is sent and no case data is modified.</p> <p>A dedicated shadow results view per case shows:</p> <ul> <li>Predicted intent and response by Case Management Agent.</li> <li>Suggested field changes.</li> <li>Rationale behind recommendations.</li> </ul> <p>Administrators review shadow results to:</p> <ul> <li>Compare Case Management Agent recommendations with actual human actions.</li> <li>Identify mismatches, gaps, or improvement opportunities.</li> <li>Assess readiness for partial or full automation.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/01/2026",
        "GA date":"05/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"2e743a05-6001-f111-8406-6045bda6fdea",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/26/2026"
},
                
{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Simulate case‑resolution flows before production",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Safely validate Case Management Agent resolution logic before it impacts customers and catch configuration and instruction issues early. Provide clear, reviewable evidence (accuracy, tone, actions) to speed approvals for pilots and autonomous use. Estimate resolution quality, operational impact, and credit usage upfront to justify scope and investment.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p><strong>Scope</strong></p> <ul> <li>Simulate end‑to‑end case resolution flows, including intent handling, response drafting, and tool or custom‑agent calls, without sending customer emails.</li> <li>Run simulations using synthetic data sets or sampled organizational records.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Trigger simulations with a single click from the Copilot Service admin center and track all runs in a centralized view with export support.</li> <li>Each run captures the rules and instructions used, drafted responses, invoked agents or tools, and any detected issues.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Output</strong>: Actionable metrics including resolution accuracy, clarification gaps, failures, tool usage, and estimated credit impact.</p> <p><strong>Admin and automation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Upload data sets or select organizational data, tag and version simulation runs, and export artifacts.</li> <li>Use APIs to trigger simulations and retrieve results for reporting and dashboards.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"03/06/2026",
        "GA date":"04/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"08d34b0c-4901-f111-8406-6045bda6fdea",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/02/2026"
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Resolve cases faster with the new formless Copilot workspace",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Service representatives often navigate multiple forms, lists, and tools to understand and act on a single case. Copilot transforms this experience into a single AI-orchestrated workspace where cases are preprioritized, context is assembled automatically, and actions are completed with one approval directly in the Copilot pane.</p> <p>Customers benefit from:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Faster first response and resolution</strong>: Representatives move from searching for context to acting on curated insights from the moment a case is opened.</li> <li><strong>Reduced cognitive load and improved SLA adherence</strong>: AI-driven prioritization surfaces the right case at the right time, helping ensure critical work is not missed.</li> <li><strong>Higher first-contact resolution</strong>: Copilot synthesizes intent, case history, lifecycle state, and knowledge signals into a unified briefing, enabling confident decisions in the first interaction.</li> <li><strong>Trusted, human-in-the-loop automation</strong>: Actions such as sending emails, updating cases, and closing cases are proposed by Copilot and carried out only after explicit approval, ensuring control and accountability.</li> </ul> <p>The result is a reimagined service experience where Dynamics 365 becomes the operational cockpit for customer service, bringing together context, decisioning, and execution in one unified surface rather than across disconnected tools.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The formless Copilot experience introduces a new case-focused workspace in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, transforming the Copilot pane from a chat assistant into an AI-orchestrated work surface.</p> <p>The public preview release is available to Dynamics 365 Customer Service users and includes the following features:</p> <p><strong>Workload and navigation</strong>: A prioritized work list ranks cases by AI-computed priority and escalation risk, with conditional formatting that highlights critical work. A side-by-side, split-screen layout keeps the workload grid and active case visible simultaneously, eliminating back-and-forth navigation. <strong>Case intelligence</strong>: Preassembled case briefings at case open provide a synthesized view of the problem, closure likelihood, pending actions, sentiment, and escalation risk—so representatives start with context instead of building it manually. <strong>Prompt library and actions</strong>: A curated, out-of-the-box prompt set supports common service scenarios such as case summary, response drafting, and case health checks. Actions render as adaptive cards within the Copilot pane, and all write actions require explicit representative approval before execution. <strong>Layout and extensibility</strong>: A full-page Copilot experience is configurable by administrators and scoped through Experience Profiles. Role-based entitlements ensure representatives can access only the prompts, actions, and agents assigned to them. Every Copilot run is captured in the Dataverse audit trail.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"20d4d7e0-983a-f111-88b5-0022482aa494",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Structure content for rich text editor with Copilot",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Structured content in the rich text editor enables users to generate consistent, formatted responses using Copilot-powered templates directly within supported experiences in model-driven apps.</p> <p>Using structured content in the rich text editor helps users standardize communications and improve productivity by reducing manual content creation.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Structured content in the rich text editor (RTE) enables organizations to standardize and scale how customer communications are created across records.</p> <p>Administrators can configure structured content templates that define reusable formats, including predefined fields, layout, and guidance for specific communication scenarios.</p> <p>Representatives can apply these templates directly to free-form content within records that use the rich text editor control, allowing them to quickly create consistent, compliant responses without starting from scratch. The guided structure ensures that required information is included and formatted correctly, improving clarity and reducing manual effort.</p> <p>At runtime, Copilot enhances this experience by generating structured output aligned with the selected template. Instead of producing unstructured text, Copilot fills in template fields with contextually relevant content, helping representatives complete responses faster while maintaining consistency with organizational standards.</p> <p>This combination of administrator-defined structure and Copilot-generated content helps improve productivity, reduce errors, and ensure that customer communications are clear, complete, and aligned with business requirements. It also enables more reliable downstream processing and analytics due to the consistent formatting of captured content.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/01/2026",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"e10904ed-b239-f111-88b5-0022482aa494",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Monitor AI agent activity in agent feed",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>The agent activity monitoring experience allows supervisors to observe customer interactions when needed, enabling them to improve AI agents and better serve customers. This enables organizations to roll out fully autonomous contact centers to drive cost savings with confidence that there's human monitoring.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>In Power Apps, the feature is enabled by administrators for supervisors who are operationally responsible for managing AI agents within an organization.</p> <p>Supervisors can then view the agent activity on their dashboard in Copilot Service workspace. The highlights of the monitoring experience are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Primary feed view displaying agent activities that need attention or are completed.</li> <li>Activity drill-down to see the history of AI agents that have participated in a case or conversation.</li> <li>Support for the Case Management Agent.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"10/01/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"282318e0-6615-f011-998a-6045bddb7393",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Create custom summaries for any record type",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>The custom record summary feature enhances the productivity of customer service representatives by giving them access to automatically generated summaries of key record data. This feature reduces the time spent on manually reviewing details and empowers service representatives to provide faster and more accurate responses to customer queries.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The custom record summary feature uses AI to generate summaries for any custom record type in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. Administrators choose the record type to summarize and select the data fields to include.</p> <p>Summaries help service representatives quickly understand important records, such as custom case record types or other out-of-the-box record types like account and contact.</p> <p>Use this feature to create summaries for custom record types, such as work orders, part orders, or any other custom table you create.</p> <p>This feature helps reduce manual work for service representatives.</p> <p><strong>Key capabilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Generate summaries for existing record types, such as account, work orders, and tickets.</li> <li>Use natural language to describe the record type so AI can use this information to create better summaries.</li> <li>Select data fields for the summary. Describe these fields in natural language.</li> <li>Give service representatives access to these summaries on demand, so they can keep their communications accurate and relevant.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>Helps service representatives be more productive by reducing the time they spend manually reviewing any out-of-the-box or custom record type.</li> <li>Improves response times in customer interactions by providing summarized information.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"11/14/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
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        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026",
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Set up assessment plans with evaluation framework",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>The evaluation framework is the foundation of the quality management solution. It lets supervisors set business quality standards for customer service representatives and AI agents by using detailed evaluation criteria. The framework can automatically assess customer interactions based on specific conditions with evaluation plans.</p> <p>The framework offers control over score calculations, either through weighted criteria or equal distribution. Additionally, AI supervisors have the option to review scores before they are published.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>You can manage the quality evaluation framework that you set for Quality Evaluation Agent through the Copilot Service admin center. The evaluation framework enables autonomous and AI-assisted assessments of customer interactions across channels, such as cases and conversations.</p> <p>The key components of the framework are:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Evaluation criteria</strong>: Structured forms with questions, scoring logic, and instructions that define what quality means for a business. These can be out of the box or customized by supervisors.</li> <li><strong>Evaluation plans</strong>: Rules that determine when and how evaluations are triggered, either on demand or based on specific conditions like SLA breaches or sentiment drops.</li> <li><strong>Evaluations</strong>: The actual scoring and analysis of interactions, producing summaries, insights, and coaching recommendations for supervisors.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/24/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"e90862d2-f388-f011-b4cb-002248298daa",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
},
                
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"View customer sentiment indicators on a case",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>This capability provides an immediate view of customer sentiment, helping agents and supervisors identify potential escalations early and respond proactively. By consolidating sentiment across email, chat, and voice into a single, easy‑to‑interpret indicator, it supports better case prioritization and service decisions. Surfacing sentiment directly in case forms and grids also reduces time spent reviewing interactions, improving agent efficiency and overall service quality.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p><strong>Scope</strong></p> <ul> <li>Displays case sentiment directly on cases and in case grids.</li> <li>Uses channel‑level sentiment signals weighted by recency and admin‑configured channel weights.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Experience</strong></p> <p>Case sentiment appears on the case form, enhanced Active Cases grid, and agent inbox card (when added to the agent profile). It updates automatically when new emails arrive or conversations close, provided sentiment is enabled.</p> <p><strong>Setup</strong></p> <ul> <li>Administrators enable <strong>Case sentiment (preview)</strong> in Case settings and configure channel weights.</li> <li>Administrators enable email sentiment visibility and add the <strong>Sentiment</strong> field to agent profiles/inbox record types.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Output</strong></p> <p>Displays a sentiment score and icon representing the combined emotional tone of recent interactions. The score reflects channel weight, interaction recency, and per‑interaction sentiment, and recalculates automatically as new interactions are received.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"03/01/2026",
        "GA date":"04/01/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2026 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"9b542313-5e01-f111-8406-6045bda6fdea",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/14/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Customize case summaries with wide number of attributes and custom record types",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>This feature helps customer service representatives customize case summaries to make them more relevant. By adding more attributes you can use to customize these summaries, your service representatives catch up on their cases faster and serve their customers more efficiently.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Case summaries in Dynamics 365 Customer Service now give you a much-improved capability to customize the data attributes that the summary uses. You can use up to 16 different attributes to customize the summaries.</p> <p>You can apply these attributes to the incident table or to any related table. The table that you choose must have a direct relationship with the base incident table.</p> <p>The key features of the case summary attributes include the following capabilities:</p> <ul> <li>Configure up to 16 attributes.</li> <li>Use 10 attributes that have a one-to-one relationship with the base incident table.</li> <li>Use 6 attributes that have a one-to-many relationship with the base incident table. For example, these attributes include <strong>Email Body</strong> from the Email record type, which has a one-to-many relationship with the base incident entity.</li> <li>The six 1-to-many attributes can come from up to three different tables. For example, all six 1-to-many attributes can come from a part order table that the incident table relates to directly. Or, you can have two attributes that come from a part order custom table, two attributes that come from the work order custom table, and two attributes that come from the <strong>Notes</strong> out-of-the-box table.</li> <li>For each attribute that you configure, you can add a detailed description for the attribute. You can include the attribute's value, the table it belongs to, and more. The system uses these details to give the case summary feature richer context and fidelity for the generated case summaries.</li> </ul> <p>With these customizations, your representatives can use case summaries more effectively to reach their goals and serve customers.</p> <p>Admins can configure this feature in the Customer Service admin center by selecting <strong>Manage Data</strong> &gt; <strong>Productivity</strong> &gt; <strong>Summaries</strong>. Then, they can set up the attributes they want in the settings.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"11/15/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"453898ad-c1ff-ef11-bae3-000d3a1a25a0",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"08/07/2025"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Mask sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access",
        "Investment area":"Omnichannel",
        "Business value":"<p>To safeguard sensitive data isn't just a necessity, but a mandate for contact centers. As the custodians of customer trust, contact centers are pioneering the use of cutting-edge methods to protect customer data at every stage—acquisition, transmission, and storage. Digital Contact Center Platform steps up to this challenge with its sensitive data masking feature.</p> <ul> <li>Enhanced customer trust: By employing state-of-the-art methods to protect customer data, we demonstrate our commitment to privacy, thereby enhancing customer trust and loyalty.</li> <li>Regulatory compliance: Our platform helps contact centers adhere to industry regulations related to data protection, reducing the risk of non-compliance penalties.</li> <li>Secure environment: By deterring unauthorized access, we provide a secure environment for agents and supervisors, enabling them to focus on delivering excellent customer service.</li> </ul>",
        "Feature details":"<p>This feature provides the following configuration capabilities to prevent unauthorized access and create a secure environment for agents and supervisors to address customer needs.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Administrative control</strong>: Administrators can define rules for handling sensitive data items and establish masking rules. These rules can be applied for data storage, during IVR sessions, and agent sessions.</li> <li><strong>Service-wide application</strong>: The established masking rules will be applied to transcription and call recording services.</li> <li><strong>Audit trails</strong>: Auditing features to track changes to sensitive data rules and access to Dataverse entities that host sensitive data.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/28/2024",
        "GA date":"09/28/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"ca744180-314c-ee11-be6f-000d3a574f8a",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/25/2024"
},
                
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use Copilot-powered email template recommendations",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>Transform customer support communication with intelligent template recommendations that reduce response times and remove administrative friction. By using AI to precisely match contextual templates, support teams can greatly reduce manual template searching time, speed up case resolution, and deliver more consistent, accurate customer communications.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Copilot email assist now suggests relevant email templates so that service representatives don't need to manually search for templates. Copilot bases its suggestions on the email content, search context, and thread intent. Representatives can access these suggestions directly from the email editor.</p> <p>This feature uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model if coupled with intent capabilities. For personal copilots, this feature is not charged. Learn more in <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pay-as-you-go-overview\" data-linktype=\"absolute-path\">Pay-as-you-go plan</a>.</p> <ul> <li><p>Representatives can enter a custom prompt in the inline email assist card when they reply to a customer.</p> </li> <li><p>Copilot matches the prompt with email templates stored in the application. It selects the most appropriate template in the inline email form.</p> <p><img src=\"media/email_draft_01.png\" alt=\"Copilot recommending an email template\" title=\"Copilot recommending an email template\" data-linktype=\"relative-path\"></p> </li> <li><p>Representatives see the name of the selected email template. They can select a different email template if they want.</p> <p><img src=\"media/email_draft_02.png\" alt=\"Template inserted and template name displayed\" title=\"Template inserted and template name displayed\" data-linktype=\"relative-path\"></p> </li> </ul> <p>For representatives to use this feature, administrators must do the following:</p> <ol> <li>Turn on the feature.</li> <li>Create email templates in the application, because Copilot can recommend existing templates only.</li> </ol> <p>Fallback behavior: If no email template is identified, then the email draft is created using existing inline email assist capabilties.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/15/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"50ee3be7-4ddc-ee11-904d-00224822dc70",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"04/09/2026",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Nov 2025)","Australia (Nov 2025)","Brazil (Nov 2025)","Canada (Nov 2025)","China (Nov 2025)","Europe (Nov 2025)","France (Nov 2025)","Germany (Nov 2025)","India (Nov 2025)","Italy (Nov 2025)","Japan (Nov 2025)","New Zealand (Nov 2025)","Norway (Nov 2025)","Poland (Nov 2025)","Qatar (Nov 2025)","Singapore (Nov 2025)","South Africa (Nov 2025)","South Korea (Nov 2025)","Spain (Nov 2025)","Sweden (Nov 2025)","Switzerland (Nov 2025)","United Arab Emirates (Nov 2025)","United Kingdom (Nov 2025)","United States (Nov 2025)","US DoD (Nov 2025)","US GCC (Nov 2025)","US GCC High (Nov 2025)","US Gov (Nov 2025)","US Nat (Nov 2025)","US Sec (Nov 2025)"]
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Use proactive prompts and insights generated by Copilot",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>With proactive prompting, agents don't need to type anything to discover and prompt Copilot. This feature saves agents time and improves the quality of their overall experience.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Proactive prompting gives agents the following benefits:</p> <ul> <li>Contextual prompt starters at the beginning of a Copilot conversation.</li> <li>Suggested prompts that help agents discover plugins.</li> <li>Understanding of case, conversation, and email context.</li> <li>Insights generated proactively.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"11/15/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"677bb970-4ce2-ee11-904d-6045bdd6e492",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Arabic (Nov 15, 2024)","Chinese (Simplified) (Nov 15, 2024)","Chinese (Traditional) (Not Supported)","Czech (Nov 15, 2024)","Danish (Nov 15, 2024)","Dutch (Nov 15, 2024)","English (Australia) (Not Supported)","English (Canada) (Not Supported)","English (United Kingdom) (Not Supported)","English (United States) (Nov 15, 2024)","Finnish (Nov 15, 2024)","French (Nov 15, 2024)","French (Canada) (Not Supported)","German (Nov 15, 2024)","Greek (Nov 15, 2024)","Hebrew (Nov 15, 2024)","Hindi (Not Supported)","Indonesian (Not Supported)","Italian (Nov 15, 2024)","Japanese (Nov 15, 2024)","Korean (Nov 15, 2024)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Nov 15, 2024)","Polish (Nov 15, 2024)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Nov 15, 2024)","Portuguese (Portugal) (Not Supported)","Russian (Nov 15, 2024)","Spanish (Nov 15, 2024)","Spanish (Mexico) (Not Supported)","Spanish (United States) (Nov 15, 2024)","Swedish (Nov 15, 2024)","Thai (Nov 15, 2024)","Turkish (Nov 15, 2024)","Vietnamese (Nov 15, 2024)"]
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Connect AI agents using Model Context Protocol server",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>With this capability, developers can simplify integrations of AI agents. You save significant development time and resources, and your team can focus on higher-value tasks.</p> <p>Service representatives can connect to their favorite AI agent, such as in Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365 Copilot, through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connecting to an AI agent is as easy as installing a new mobile app. When representatives use an AI agent, they increase their productivity. Faster resolution times and improved customer satisfaction follow.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<h3 id=\"unlock-more-powerful-ai-automation-across-service-workflows\">Unlock more powerful AI automation across service workflows</h3> <p>Service representatives can now use AI agents to perform rich actions such as case enrichment, drafting and sending email responses, or recommending next steps. With the <strong>Dynamics 365 Customer Service MCP server</strong>, teams can automate key parts of the support lifecycle while ensuring each interaction complies with your organization’s data and security standards.</p> <p>Because the MCP server works across the broader MCP ecosystem, you can combine it with the <strong>Dataverse MCP server</strong> or other business‑app MCP servers to orchestrate cross‑functional workflows. For example, resolving a support case and then triggering downstream actions in ERP or sales systems.</p> <hr> <h3 id=\"whats-new-available-tools-in-the-dynamics-365-customer-service-mcp-server\">What’s new: Available tools in the Dynamics 365 Customer Service MCP server</h3> <p>The new <strong>Dynamics 365 Customer Service MCP server</strong> introduces a powerful set of tools that enable AI‑driven updates, recommendations, and customer communications.</p> <h4 id=\"customer-service-mcp-server-tools\">Customer Service MCP server tools</h4> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Tool</th> <th>What it does</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><code>enrich_case</code></td> <td>Enriches a case by predicting and updating fields using AI‑powered suggestions (for example, from an email activity).</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>get_next_suggestion_on_case</code></td> <td>Provides recommended next steps for a case using contextual signals such as customer messages or case history.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>draft_email_with_suggested_response</code></td> <td>Drafts a customer‑ready response using case context and suggested actions.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>send_email</code></td> <td>Sends a previously drafted email using Dataverse email records.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>resolve_incident</code></td> <td>Resolves a case with required resolution notes.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <h3 id=\"dataverse-mcp-server-tools-commonly-used-alongside-customer-service\">Dataverse MCP server tools (commonly used alongside Customer Service)</h3> <p>These tools allow agents to read, write, and update Dataverse data, enabling cross‑system workflows:</p> <ul> <li><code>list_tables</code></li> <li><code>describe_table</code></li> <li><code>read_query</code></li> <li><code>create_record</code></li> <li><code>update_record</code></li> <li><code>retrieve_knowledge</code></li> <li>and more</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"11/18/2025",
        "GA date":"",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"",
        "Release Plan ID":"99a2e611-7824-f011-8c4e-7c1e520dbb77",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"02/12/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Insert Copilot prompts in email templates",
        "Investment area":"Copilot and AI innovation",
        "Business value":"<p>You can speed up email responses with intelligent template prompts. Copilot prompts in email templates automatically fill email templates with the prompt content. This feature reduces the service representative's workload and ensures consistent, accurate customer communication.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With this feature, administrators can set up email prompts in email templates. When a customer service representative uses an email template, Copilot automatically fills in content from the prompts. This feature boosts agent productivity and cuts down on manual work.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/15/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"9f44ac91-a981-ef11-ac21-6045bddc55e6",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"11/18/2025",
        "GeographicAreasDetails":["Asia Pacific (Nov 2025)","Australia (Nov 2025)","Brazil (Nov 2025)","Canada (Nov 2025)","China (Nov 2025)","Europe (Nov 2025)","France (Nov 2025)","Germany (Nov 2025)","India (Nov 2025)","Italy (Nov 2025)","Japan (Nov 2025)","New Zealand (Nov 2025)","Norway (Nov 2025)","Poland (Nov 2025)","Qatar (Nov 2025)","Singapore (Nov 2025)","South Africa (Nov 2025)","South Korea (Nov 2025)","Spain (Nov 2025)","Sweden (Nov 2025)","Switzerland (Nov 2025)","United Arab Emirates (Nov 2025)","United Kingdom (Nov 2025)","United States (Nov 2025)","US DoD (Nov 2025)","US GCC (Nov 2025)","US GCC High (Nov 2025)","US Gov (Nov 2025)","US Nat (Nov 2025)","US Sec (Nov 2025)"]
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Access voice channel features in GCC Moderate",
        "Investment area":"Omnichannel",
        "Business value":"<p>Customers in Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) Moderate can now access features from the voice channel in Omnichannel for Customer Service. The GCC is a set of environments built to meet specific needs of US Government agencies and this release supports the voice channel to be a part of it.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>In this release, the voice channel in Omnichannel for Customer Service will be available for GCC Moderate customers via Azure Communication Services Direct Routing. With this support, customers in government clouds will have access to the following features in the voice channel:</p> <p><strong>Agent</strong></p> <ul> <li>Call controls: Accept, reject, mute, hold, and end</li> <li>Recording and transcription</li> <li>Turn on or turn off the camera for video call</li> <li>Consult with supervisor</li> <li>Wait music</li> <li>Hold music</li> <li>Outbound calling</li> <li>Transfer or consult to external participant</li> <li>Transfer to Dynamics 365 queue</li> <li>Receive direct inward dialed calls</li> <li>Voicemail</li> <li>Direct callback</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bot</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bot escalation to agent</li> <li>Post-call survey</li> <li>Multi-language bot support</li> </ul> <p><strong>Calling and routing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ability to handle and distribute incoming calls with unified routing</li> <li>Provision and manage phone numbers</li> </ul> <p><strong>Supervisor</strong></p> <ul> <li>Consult and transfer</li> <li>Monitor and barge</li> <li>Ability to record and manage phone calls</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customer</strong></p> <ul> <li>Music on hold and wait</li> <li>Directly phone agent via direct inward dialing</li> <li>Request direct callback</li> <li>Customer consent-based post-call survey</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/28/2024",
        "GA date":"04/28/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"5201f6e8-3f4c-ee11-be6f-000d3a5744ca",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"03/06/2024"
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{
        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Monitor operational telemetry through Application Insights",
        "Investment area":"Omnichannel",
        "Business value":"<p>Customers require real-time monitoring of system health to investigate issues proactively and ensure operational continuity. By integrating Omnichannel for Customer Service with Application Insights, customers can now access self-serve information to monitor operational telemetry, troubleshoot issues, and understand the root cause to guide their mitigation plan.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Customers require a real-time monitoring view of system health to investigate issues proactively and ensure operational continuity. By integrating Omnichannel for Customer Service with Application Insights, customers can now access self-serve information to monitor operational telemetry, troubleshoot issues, and understand the root cause to guide their mitigation plan.</p> <p>With this capability, customers use Application Insights to:</p> <ul> <li>Access granular information for behind-the-scene operations.</li> <li>Leverage configurability to create custom diagnostic events and log telemetry</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"08/23/2023",
        "GA date":"01/28/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2023 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"fb67f0ba-f2c8-ed11-b597-000d3a55bb34",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"11/15/2023"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Get knowledge base article previews from global search",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Agents can get knowledge base article previews from global search without opening the article in the knowledge authoring experience. This capability saves agents time and reduces their cognitive load.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>As an administrator, enable this option for your agents in the Customer Service admin center. When you enable this option, agents can view knowledge base article previews from global search without opening the knowledge authoring form experience. This feature saves agents time and gives them a simpler and faster way to read knowledge articles through global search.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/01/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"48f1d844-b46c-ef11-bfe2-7c1e5216d7d4",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Manage cases efficiently with enhanced case controls",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Agents must upload attachments one at a time. To open an attachment, they search for it in the case timeline. Because of this process, agents need intuitive controls on the case form to easily find and access relevant information. With these controls, agents can perform operations efficiently.</p> <p>When you add enhanced case form controls to the default case form, <strong>Case</strong> for multisession experience in the Customer Service workspace application, agents can easily upload and view multiple attachments. They can use color-coded icons to quickly identify fields during case creation. These enhancements simplify daily case management tasks, reduce effort, and increase productivity.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With this enhancement, the out-of-the-box case form in the Customer Service workspace, Case for multisession experience, enables agents to perform the following actions by default:</p> <ul> <li>View and upload multiple attachments directly to the case.</li> <li>Access all the attachments related to a case in a consolidated view.</li> <li>Quickly get up to speed on the activities due on the case.</li> <li>Identify case fields with color-coded icons through the <strong>Option set</strong> wrapper control.</li> <li>Quickly identify the queue for the case and edit the Workedby field with the Queue item control.</li> </ul> <p>The Customer Service workspace application enables all these capabilities by default on the out-of-the-box case form, Case for multisession experience.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"08/12/2024",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/01/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"9ea3c613-db4c-ee11-be6f-002248255405",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"08/07/2025"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Prioritize cases with improved case grids",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Case grids that show agents' active cases with color differentiators for columns like priority and origin, and information like next SLA, last interaction, escalated status, and case age, help agents prioritize cases that need the most attention. Agents can also go directly to the latest interaction on the case. This capability improves agents' productivity when they work on cases.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With the improved case grids, agents can do the following tasks:</p> <ul> <li>View icons for priority and the origin channel, and avatars for the assigned agents.</li> <li>View key data such as case age, next SLA breach, <code>IsEscalated</code> status, and latest activity in the Enhanced Active Cases view.</li> <li>Use quick navigation to the latest activity to respond to the latest communication.</li> </ul> <p>By default, all customers get the improvements to the case grid. Administrators can turn on editing functionality with the control to let agents edit information directly on the grid.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Early access date":"08/12/2024",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/01/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"40c2778d-6ee0-ee11-904d-00224827e97b",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"01/08/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Monitor customer wait time through live conversation counter",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Customer service representatives need to track the elapsed time since they last helped the customer to meet business service-level agreements (SLAs). Timely responses boost customer satisfaction. When customer satisfaction is high, businesses maintain or grow revenue through brand loyalty.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>Here are the key details of the feature.</p> <p><strong>Customer service representatives</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>The SLAs that service representatives see come from response time standards that the business agrees on to address customer inquiries.</li> <li>Service representatives can see the SLA counter on the multisesion bar for live chat workstreams and channels.</li> <li>Service representatives can see a counter for each session or conversation.</li> <li>Each SLA counter increments based on the time that passes since the representative last responded, as long as the customer's message is the most recent message.</li> <li>If the representative responds, the counter resets itself and restarts only when the customer responds to the respective message.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Administrators</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Administrators set the SLAs through the Urgent and Warning states.</li> <li>The Warning state shows that the SLA is getting close, and the Urgent state shows that the SLA passed.</li> <li>Configure these states in the Customer Service admin center by going to <strong>Workstream</strong> &gt; <strong>Specific workstream</strong> &gt; <strong>Show advanced settings</strong> &gt; <strong>Live conversation counter for customer wait time</strong>.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"05/30/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "Release Plan ID":"95dce3f9-b3e0-ee11-904d-00224827e5d4",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"05/21/2026"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Enable customers to create multisession apps",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>Customers work in many different lines of business, and each line of business needs its own application. With separate applications for each line of business, customers can create unique experiences for different business segments. When you enable the multisession functionality for representatives who use custom model-driven apps, you give organizations the ability to create multiple specialized workspace applications that fit their specific business requirements. By bringing this browser-like experience to custom apps, organizations keep their unique business processes while giving agents the efficiency benefits of concurrent session management.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>When you use the create multisession apps enhancement, administrators can turn on multisession capabilities for custom model-driven applications. With this feature, customer service representatives can manage multiple customer interactions at the same time within a single application. Representatives can handle several cases, conversations, and other activities without switching between apps. This capability greatly improves productivity.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users by admins, makers, or analysts",
        "Public preview date":"04/30/2025",
        "GA date":"10/31/2025",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"2025 release wave 1",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"f3bd83a5-8de0-ee11-904d-00224827e88b",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"11/05/2025"
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Override timeout rules in SLA-based automatic actions",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>In scenarios where a service representative is on leave, needs more response time, or transfers a conversation to a different queue, the service representative can change the flow of the rules for automatic actions.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>The ability to override ensures that automation doesn't interfere with active or sensitive conversations. It empowers representatives to pause or resume timeout rules based on real customer needs. This flexibility prevents premature conversation closures and builds confidence when working within automated workflows. The override is a critical capability for enterprise customers who require both structured processes and adaptability.</p> <p>Once enabled, this feature empowers representatives to view and control timeout rules applied to their conversations. Here’s what they can do:</p> <ul> <li>Access the <strong>Timeout Rules</strong> panel by selecting it in the productivity pane.</li> <li>See all rules linked to the conversation, along with their status and remaining time through the hourglass tooltip.</li> <li>Toggle rules on or off: Turning off stops the countdown and prevents execution; turning on resumes the timer when conditions are met.</li> </ul> <p>Rules have clear states like <strong>Active</strong>, <strong>Inactive</strong>, <strong>Just Ran</strong>, <strong>Turned Off</strong>, and <strong>Cannot Off</strong> when close to triggering. Visual cues and tooltips meet accessibility standards, making it easy for a representative to manage automation without disrupting active engagements.</p>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"01/30/2026",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2025 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"27e28032-fe7d-ef11-ac21-7c1e52164557",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"02/25/2026",
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        "LanguageAreasDetails":["Arabic (Jan 30, 2026)","Basque (Jan 30, 2026)","Bulgarian (Jan 30, 2026)","Catalan (Jan 30, 2026)","Chinese (Simplified) (Jan 30, 2026)","Chinese (Traditional) (Jan 30, 2026)","Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) (Jan 30, 2026)","Croatian (Jan 30, 2026)","Czech (Jan 30, 2026)","Danish (Jan 30, 2026)","Dutch (Jan 30, 2026)","English (Jan 30, 2026)","Estonian (Jan 30, 2026)","Finnish (Jan 30, 2026)","French (Jan 30, 2026)","Galician (Jan 30, 2026)","German (Jan 30, 2026)","Greek (Jan 30, 2026)","Hebrew (Jan 30, 2026)","Hindi (Jan 30, 2026)","Hungarian (Jan 30, 2026)","Indonesian (Jan 30, 2026)","Italian (Jan 30, 2026)","Japanese (Jan 30, 2026)","Kazakh (Jan 30, 2026)","Korean (Jan 30, 2026)","Latvian (Jan 30, 2026)","Lithuanian (Jan 30, 2026)","Malay (Jan 30, 2026)","Norwegian (Bokmål) (Jan 30, 2026)","Polish (Jan 30, 2026)","Portuguese (Brazil) (Jan 30, 2026)","Portuguese (Portugal) (Jan 30, 2026)","Romanian (Jan 30, 2026)","Russian (Jan 30, 2026)","Serbian (Cyrillic) (Jan 30, 2026)","Serbian (Latin) (Jan 30, 2026)","Slovak (Jan 30, 2026)","Slovenian (Jan 30, 2026)","Spanish (Jan 30, 2026)","Swedish (Jan 30, 2026)","Thai (Jan 30, 2026)","Turkish (Jan 30, 2026)","Ukrainian (Jan 30, 2026)","Vietnamese (Jan 30, 2026)"]
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        "ProductId":"bf2f17ac-715d-e911-a968-000d3a4e32b5",
        "Product name":"Dynamics 365 Customer Service",
        "Feature name":"Compose emails using improved attachment experience",
        "Investment area":"Service representative experiences",
        "Business value":"<p>The enhanced attachment experience lets agents drag and drop attachments in emails, so they save time and get more done. If agents forget to include an attachment after mentioning it in the email subject or body, the system sends a reminder.</p>",
        "Feature details":"<p>With the enhanced email attachment experience, agents can:</p> <ul> <li>Add attachments by dragging and dropping them to the email.</li> <li>Copy attachments from one or more emails and paste them to another email.</li> <li>Download and attach an email as an attachment to another email.</li> <li>Bulk download and delete attachments.</li> <li>See the attachment size in the appropriate units.</li> <li>Toggle between the tile and grid views.</li> <li>Export attachment details to Excel.</li> <li>Receive reminders to add attachments.</li> <li>Add attachments before saving an email.</li> <li>Add previously used attachments.</li> </ul>",
        "Enabled for":"Users, automatically",
        "Public preview date":"",
        "GA date":"10/01/2024",
        "Public Preview Release Wave":"",
        "GA Release Wave":"2024 release wave 2",
        "Release Plan ID":"4603f93f-86f2-ee11-904c-6045bdeb8873",
        "Last Gitcommit date":"08/07/2025"
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