#What’s New in this Release?

Insider Release Date: July 24, 2026

General Availability Date for the Commercial Environment: August 9, 2026

General Availability Date for the U.S. Government Environment: August 16, 2026

The following features are in preview in the AvePoint Policies for Microsoft 365 insider environment, and they will be available in the commercial and U.S. Government environments on the general availability dates.

• Policies for Microsoft 365 now supports Agent as an object type. It currently supports the Ownerless Agent Detection rule, which identifies agents that have no assigned owner or whose owner is inactive.

  To use this rule, ensure that the following requirements are met:

  • You have an active AgentPulse subscription

  • You have consented to the AgentPulse Enterprise app profile

• You can now choose whether to skip monitoring the site domain group [Group Name] Owners for Microsoft 365 Group team sites.

  Related rules:

  • User/Group Restriction

  • Site Collection Administrator Restriction

  • Site Owner Restriction

• The Ownership Restriction rule now enforces ownership settings on private and shared channels. You can choose to inherit restrictions from the parent Team or set custom rule settings per channel type.

• Policies for Microsoft 365 now supports granular, content‑level filter conditions, enabling you to target individual files based on file type.

The following updates have been made to this user guide for this release:

• Updated Service Integrations.

• Updated Service Level Policies.

• Updated Supported Filter Criteria.

For additional technical information on the new functionality and known issues in this release, see the Release Notes.