MWPRO IMPACT SCORE
OPERATIONAL IMPACT
58
0
25
50
75
100
HIGH IMPACT • REVIEW RECOMMENDED
Recommended Action:
Review the update and plan any required actions before rollout.
Review the update and plan any required actions before rollout.
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Primary Audience
Microsoft 365 AdminsTenant AdminsIT ManagersService OwnersEnd Users
Why this score?
AI Confidence
HIGH
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Assessment Reasoning
The update expands the Copilot Home experience with Projects and renames Notebooks to Workspaces, impacting how users organise and collaborate with Copilot. Admins may need to review user access and billing configurations tied to Cowork functionality. The rollout has started for standard release tenants, so monitoring is timely but not critical. User workflows will change moderately due to navigation updates and new collaboration structures, but the underlying data storage and permissions remain consistent.
60
Admin Impact
55
User Impact
60
Urgency
50
Effort
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
AT A GLANCE
The Copilot app adds Projects and renames Notebooks to Workspaces, giving users organised spaces for task and file collaboration within Home.
END USERS
Users will see Notebooks renamed to Workspaces and gain access to new Projects in the Copilot app.
IT ADMINS
Review Cowork licensing and spending policy settings before the rollout to confirm access and billing setup.
ROLLOUT TIMELINE
Rolling out:
Late Oct–Nov 2026
Late Oct–Nov 2026
📢 Official Microsoft Message Center Announcement
Microsoft Copilot app: Updates to Home and navigation
Message ID: MC1535647
[What and why]
In MC1479277 about updates to the Microsoft Copilot app, we introduced Home as the new starting point that brings Chat and Cowork together, so users can get chat assistance and delegate multi-step tasks in one view. This post builds on that announcement with worldwide rollout timing and the addition of Projects and Workspaces to the Home experience.
[Rollout schedule]
- Standard release begins late October 2026
- Deferred release begins late November 2026
[Impact on your organization]
Who is affected
- Users of the Microsoft Copilot app. Access to Cowork and Cowork-related capabilities depends on Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and your organization’s usage-based billing configuration.
Platforms and services
- Microsoft Copilot web, desktop, and mobile app.
What will happen
Projects:
- In addition to what was communicated in MC1479277, Projects provides a dedicated space in Home for organizing related chats, Cowork tasks, and everything they share: files, instructions, and outputs. From there they can create a new project, add files and context, and start chats or Cowork tasks inside it. Responses are grounded in the project’s context first, then in the user’s broader Microsoft 365 work context. Projects are accessible from the Home navigation pane.
- Projects doesn’t store content itself, and files stay in OneDrive under the same permissions, sensitivity labels and retention policies you already use. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files that Copilot creates are saved to the user’s OneDrive.
- Projects are available on Windows, Mac, & Web apps across tier 1 languages. It is coming soon to mobile apps.
Workspaces:
- Users will see “Notebooks” become “Workspaces” in the left navigation of the Copilot app as Copilot Notebooks evolves into Copilot Workspaces. Workspaces give teams a shared space to bring together context, team members, and working files to work alongside Copilot on an ongoing workstream.
- Existing notebooks will convert into “workspaces,” retaining all previously added or made content. Read FAQs on our Support Page.
- This change will roll out to all users with access to Copilot Notebooks in the coming days. Access to individual capabilities in Copilot Workspaces (formerly known as Copilot Notebooks) will vary by license.
[Action required and recommendations]
- Review which users are included in a spending policy that grants Cowork access and confirm your intended usage-based billing configuration.
Source: Microsoft Message Center • Analysed by MWPro
