Advanced Intune Suite Capabilities Now Available in E5

Back in December 2025, it was announced that Microsoft Intune Suite capabilities which were a separate add-on was moving into the Microsoft 365 E5 suite.  As of July 1, 2026 this has now started to become available to customers.

Microsoft 365 E5 now includes advanced Intune capabilities that strengthen endpoint security, simplify management, and reduce operational complexity. Key capabilities include Endpoint Privilege Management (least-privilege access), Cloud PKI (cloud-based certificate services), Enterprise Application Management (application lifecycle management), and advanced endpoint management and analytics capabilities. Together, these capabilities help organizations improve their Zero Trust posture while streamlining device and application management at scale.

References: 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/advanced-microsoft-intune-capabilities-now-available-in-microsoft-365-e3-and-e5/4529335

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update/ 

M365 E7 is GA

As of May 1, 2026, the new Microsoft 365 E7 with Agent 365 is now Generally Available (GA).  As a reminder, M365 E7 is made up of the following:

• M365 E5: enterprise grade productivity, identity, and security services.
• M365 Copilot: AI integrated productivity capabilities.
• Microsoft Entra Suite: Identity and network access controls that secure employee use of all apps and AI
• Microsoft Agent 365: Control plan for governing, observing, and securing AI agents at scale.

Reference: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft_365blog/microsoft-365-e7-and-agent-365-are-now-generally-available/4516295

New M365 E7 Notes

By now, many of you have heard about the major announcements about the new M365 E7 offering.  There are a couple of my notes around all the new capabilities.

Work IQ

• A key announcement is Work IQ, an intelligence layer that helps M365 Copilot understand your working habits, collaborators, and shared content. Work IQ personalizes Copilot to fit your needs.
• Work IQ consists of three interconnected layers: data, context, and skills/tools.
• Its purpose is to enhance Copilot by working with any foundational model chosen by users, such as Open AI or Anthropic.
• Work IQ's foundation lies in secure access to both your structured and unstructured data through the M365 graph, along with any business data reached via Copilot Connectors outside of M365.
• The Context component grounds Copilot in M365 data, providing baseline understanding of your activities. It considers factors like your skills, ongoing projects, collaboration frequency, your network, critical tasks, and more. The Memory feature allows you to mark specific data for recall, while implicit memory uses your history to generate answers. Work IQ also assesses your activity throughout M365 to build context and maintains a business perspective on your role.
• Work IQ offers agentic skills, which are specialized instructions for tasks—such as scheduling meetings or finding notes—alongside tools that Copilot uses to carry out these tasks.
• Integrated across all Copilot applications and experiences, Work IQ enables Copilot to deliver contextual information tailored to your prompts. You can ask about your manager, projects, processes, and more, and receive responses relevant to your situation.

Copilot Cowork

• Anthropic (Claude Cowork) has now been integrated into M365 Copilot. Copilot Cowork enables advanced, long-running, multi-step workflows that extend beyond simple prompts and responses. Coupled with Work IQ, users can now delegate substantial tasks to Copilot, allowing for oversight of ongoing work.
• Cowork is capable of decomposing complex requests into actionable steps, reasoning across multiple tools and files, and completing assignments on behalf of the user.
• Cowork’s operations are transparent and observable; users can monitor progress, provide guidance, halt, or modify tasks as necessary throughout the workflow.

Agents in Chat

• Chat in Copilot serves as a starting point, enabling users to seamlessly create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more based on their interactions. There's no need for users to copy and paste or switch between different tools, ensuring a streamlined workflow and helping them accomplish tasks efficiently.
• Copilot simplifies building agents for everyday tasks using Agent Builder, while Microsoft Copilot Studio supports the development of more advanced business processes.

Multi-model Intelligence

• As noted previously, the launch of Wave 3 demonstrates ongoing commitment to Microsoft's vision of providing users with flexibility rather than limiting them to a single model. Claude is currently unavailable as a primary chat option for users, while OpenAI models remain accessible.

Agent 365

• A key feature introduced with M365 E7 is the Agent 365 solution.
• Customers should expect that agents will become widespread on all platforms, not just within Microsoft environments.
• Agent 365 serves as a centralized control plane for managing enterprise-level agents, allowing organizations to monitor, secure, and govern every agent throughout their operation.
• In essence, managing agents resembles managing users, utilizing familiar tools and strategies already in use by organizations today.

Why Microsoft Included Entra Suite in Microsoft 365 E7

• To enable AI agents to operate under Zero Trust: As AI moves from assistance to action, Microsoft needed a way to apply identity, access controls, and policy enforcement not just to users, but also to AI agents operating across the environment.
• To extend identity governance beyond humans to non‑human actors: Entra Suite allows organizations to apply lifecycle management, least‑privilege access, and conditional access to AI agents the same way they do for employees, apps, and services.
• To make large‑scale AI adoption auditable and defensible: Agent actions can be logged, monitored, and governed through Entra, Defender, and Purview—supporting compliance, investigations, and regulated industry requirements.
• To prevent “shadow AI” as agents proliferate across the business: Entra Suite provides centralized identity and access governance so agents created by different teams don’t operate outside security and policy boundaries.
• To complement Agent 365 with identity‑level enforcement: Agent 365 provides visibility and control over agents, while Entra Suite provides the identity foundation that determines who or what an agent is and what it is allowed to access.
• To move customers from AI experimentation to enterprise execution: Microsoft included Entra Suite to remove the need for additional identity add‑ons and give customers a single, trusted platform to deploy AI safely at scale.
• To align E7 with the “agentic enterprise” strategy: E7 is designed for a future where humans and AI agents work side‑by‑side; Entra Suite is what makes that model secure, governable, and enterprise‑ready.

What comes in E7?

• Think of the new E7 suite as the M365 AI suite.
• First, it brings in M365 Copilot Add-on which previously was an add-on SKU to either E3 or E5.
• Second, it brings in Agent 365 to assist organizations with their enterprise management of agents.
• Third, the Entra Suite add-on is part of the E7 suite.  Entra ID Suite was included in E7 primarily to make large‑scale, governed AI agents viable and defensible in enterprise.

References:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/03/09/introducing-the-first-frontier-suite-built-on-intelligence-trust/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/a-closer-look-at-work-iq/4499789

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/09/powering-frontier-transformation-with-copilot-and-agents/

Microsoft Teams Premium Capabilities Available in other M365 Suites

Significant updates are being introduced to Microsoft Teams licensing. Several features previously exclusive to Microsoft Teams Premium will now be included in the core M365 suites, eliminating the need for the Teams Premium add-on.

Summary:

• All advanced Town Hall and Webinar capabilities will transition to the Teams Enterprise license. Holders of an M365 suite with Teams will have access to these enhancements, enabling events with up to 3,000 attendees (and a view-only experience for up to 10,000 attendees).
• Attendee pack add-on licenses are being launched, supporting town hall events from 5,000 to 100,000 participants.
• Microsoft Places, a tool designed to facilitate workplace coordination for end users, is now bundled within M365 suites.
• A new Teams Shared Space License is being introduced, offering expanded functionality for space management and analytics.

Reference: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/licensing-updates-extend-access-to-advanced-capabilities-in-microsoft-teams-and-/4488312

Microsoft 365 Video Unification of Stream and Clipchamp

Microsoft announced that they are spearheading a new, cohesive Microsoft video experience by evolving Clipchamp and Stream into a single, streamlined video solution that harnesses the power of both services.  Clipchamp is a video editing capability and Stream is an enterprise video delivery experience.  This integration brings deeper alignment with the benefits of OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.

Users can continue to store video in SharePoint and OneDrive like they do with documents.  Clipchamp will provide more robust and versatile video solutions to enhance the productivity with video.  This is simply a unification of these capabilities, and users are not losing any capabilities.  By bringing together the player, video homepage, editor and capture tools into a single cohesive experience, barriers are removed for the creation and management of video content.  The goal to remove all barriers between creating and then consuming video.

The video playback capabilities have been enhanced.  With AI, video playback and discovery is made significantly easier for users.

One of the new features is the ability to share a clip from within a video giving video authors and viewers the ability to customize their own start and end time.  This allows important video content to be targeted and then shared without having to go through complex video editing.

There are several other new capabilities:

• Enhanced meet capture, camera and screen recoding capabilities
• Brand kits
• Templating
• Edit video through recorded transcript (really cool)
• Summarize video with M365 Copilot
• Simplify video focus

Note Clipchamp Standard is available through M365 and Office 365 suites.

Reference:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft_365blog/the-future-of-video-in-microsoft-365/4338960