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Microsoft wants its AI tools to understand a company’s business, not merely read its files. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, the company announced changes spanning Power BI-grounded Copilot answers, data sharing, application development, monitoring, SQL Server on Azure Local and database administration. For IT teams, the important distinction is that this is a portfolio of releases, previews and plans—not one finished platform.

Fabric IQ brings Power BI definitions into Copilot​

A sales forecast is only useful if everyone agrees what “sales” and “forecast” mean. Microsoft says Fabric IQ can ground answers in the Power BI semantic models that define an organization’s metrics and relationships. It describes Fabric IQ in Microsoft Copilot Chat and Cowork as generally available and on by default for Fabric and Power BI customers. Integration with Copilot’s new Code experience is planned through the Frontier program. Those availability claims apply to the named Copilot experiences, not every Fabric IQ capability.

Microsoft Learn adds a useful boundary: the Fabric IQ plugin in Cowork is labeled generally available, but its current grounding starts with Power BI reports and their underlying semantic models. It does not directly ground answers on dashboards, paginated reports or Fabric items such as lakehouses and eventhouses. Users need at least Read permission on both the report and its semantic model; queries run as the signed-in user, so existing item permissions and row-level security still apply.

“On by default” also does not mean “available to everybody.” Microsoft Learn says Cowork requires the relevant Microsoft 365 Copilot access and usage-based billing, while a tenant setting can prevent Fabric data from appearing in Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences. Nor is a grounded answer automatically an auditable one: Microsoft says Cowork currently provides no citations back to the source Power BI report or model in its data answers, and that data loss prevention is not currently supported in Cowork. Before forwarding a consequential figure, open the source report and confirm it.

The practical distinction: familiar business definitions can improve a Copilot answer, but permissions, licensing and verification still determine whether that answer is safe to use.

Sharing, monitoring and apps move closer to the data​

IQ Sharing is in preview. Microsoft says it is intended to let organizations share selected Fabric IQ artifacts and business context across organizational boundaries while retaining governance over underlying assets. The announcement does not establish that every kind of context is shareable or supply a complete permissions and rollout specification. Microsoft positions the preview alongside OneLake mirroring and shortcuts; administrators should evaluate the particular assets and access boundaries involved rather than treating “share context” as a blanket permission.

For day-to-day operations, Microsoft describes cross-workspace monitoring and an enhanced Monitor Hub that bring jobs, capacities, workspaces and workloads into a broader view. It also points to Operations Agents and Activator for investigation and response, without giving a release status for every monitoring improvement in the announcement. Microsoft Learn supplies a particularly important control detail about Operations Agents: their generated rules are backed by queries administrators can inspect, and an agent operates with its creator’s delegated permissions when carrying out an approved recommendation. Review the rules, data source and creator’s access before allowing an agent to act.

Fabric Apps remains in preview, according to Microsoft Learn. It uses a TypeScript-based Rayfin development workflow to generate APIs and provide hosting and authentication for applications built near Fabric data. A workspace needs Fabric capacity, and a tenant administrator must enable the workload. Deployed applications use Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on; Microsoft cautions that Fabric Apps may not suit software requiring complex multistep transactions or stored procedures. That makes it worth evaluating for an internal data tool, but not assuming it can replace every established line-of-business application.

Microsoft also describes new agentic data-engineering features: engineers set an outcome and boundaries, then an agent plans work, executes it, validates results and adjusts its approach. The corporate announcement does not identify the supported tasks or give these features a release status. That is a direction to watch, not a reason to remove review and testing from a production pipeline.

The common thread is control: sharing and automation become more useful when an organization can see precisely what data they touch and whose authority they use.

SQL Server gets a local option; Database Hub enters preview​

Microsoft says SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available, giving organizations another option for running critical workloads close to local applications and operations. SQL Server on Azure Local with disconnected operations is a separate preview for environments where a public-cloud connection is restricted or unavailable. Microsoft Learn says Azure Local disconnected operations use a local control plane and require Azure Local 2602 or later. That version requirement concerns the broader Azure Local disconnected-operations platform; it is not a complete SQL Server hardware, licensing or migration specification.

Meanwhile, Database Hub in Fabric is in public preview. Microsoft describes it as a central management plane for SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB and SQL databases in Fabric. Specialist SQL and PostgreSQL agents for Database Hub and Visual Studio Code are coming soon to public preview—they should not be counted as features already delivered with the hub. The announcement does not spell out every supported management operation or database configuration.

For an enterprise pilot, the sensible first questions are concrete: Is the capability available and enabled in this tenant? Which reports or databases can it reach? Whose permissions govern its answers and actions? What capacity or usage billing applies? Those checks matter more than the promise of a “continuous learning loop,” which Microsoft presents as its strategy rather than a measured result of these announcements. The strongest immediate opportunity may be using existing, governed Power BI definitions in everyday Copilot work—provided the humans in that loop still check the numbers.

Update: Additional details (September 29, 2026)​

Microsoft’s Fabric Apps documentation adds deployment prerequisites absent from the initial announcement. For apps using a Power BI semantic model, Microsoft requires Fabric capacity, the Fabric Apps (preview) tenant setting, the Semantic Model Execute Queries REST API tenant setting, and Build plus Read permissions on the target model. The Rayfin CLI is currently the supported creation path, and Fabric Apps is not yet available in every region.

Microsoft also documents a separate Fabric IQ MCP server for custom developer-built agents. It is read-only for Power BI reports and semantic models, uses Entra ID delegated permissions, and can inspect metadata and run DAX queries without granting access beyond the signed-in user’s existing rights.

Update: Additional details (September 29, 2026)​

According to Redmond Channel Partner, Cowork conversations inherit the most restrictive sensitivity label from the data used to answer them; content generated from that conversation, including emails, meeting invites and files, inherits that label. The report also distinguishes two controls: disabling “Fabric data available in M365 Copilot” removes Fabric context from Cowork, while disabling Fabric’s “Share Fabric data with your Microsoft 365 services” only prevents advance metadata sharing for search and attachments. Users can still provide report links or name reports in prompts.

The outlet also reports that Fabric workspace monitoring is preview-only, begins collecting no historical data, retains telemetry for 30 days by default, and permits only one monitoring item per workspace. Centralized collection can target one Eventhouse only when all participating workspaces are in the same Azure region, and that destination cannot later be changed.

Update: Additional details (October 1, 2026)​

TechGig reports that Fabric IQ MCP is generally available for external AI agents. The read-only service can discover Power BI reports and semantic models, inspect metadata, and run DAX queries while continuing to enforce the signed-in user’s existing Fabric permissions.

The report also says Google BigQuery mirroring is generally available, while a bidirectional Salesforce Data Cloud 360 connection and mirrored source-security roles are being added to OneLake. Mirrored roles are expected to enter public preview, with the aim of carrying source-system memberships and table permissions into Fabric.

 

References

  1. Microsoft Fabric to power enterprise AI agents with business context - TechGig TechGig Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:52:30 GMT
  2. Microsoft Fabric IQ at Barcelona 2026: Copilot GA, Fabric Apps Preview and Governance Gaps techtarget.com
  3. Fabric IQ Brings Governed Power BI Data to Copilot: Admin Setup and Limits rcpmag.com
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Microsoft wants Fabric to be more than the place where your data sits. It wants Fabric to supply the business context that AI agents draw on when they answer questions or take actions. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed an integration between Fabric IQ -- a context layer within Microsoft IQ that serves AI with consistent business logic -- and Microsoft Copilot. In addition, Microsoft introduced IQ sharing so users can share governed data and context across their organization and with third parties. TechTarget also reported new Fabric Apps features that let builders connect applications directly to Fabric warehouses, SQL databases, lakehouses and Power BI semantic models without copying the data.
The list goes on. TechTarget says Microsoft also announced Observability in Fabric, which gives customers more visibility into their Fabric estates, along with database updates for AI workloads and a data engineering agent. The report gave few details on those three. This article sticks to what can be verified and says clearly where the details stop.

A business analyst views an AI dashboard linking semantic models, business data, governance, and a data lake. Copilot gets Fabric IQ, and part of it is generally available now​

Release status is usually the first thing admins ask about, and the most useful fact here comes from Microsoft's own announcement. In a post on the Official Microsoft Blog, the company said Fabric IQ brings governed business context into Copilot, grounding experiences in the Power BI semantic models, metrics, relationships and business definitions organizations already trust.
Microsoft also said with Fabric IQ in Microsoft Copilot Chat and Cowork now generally available, users can ask business questions and receive answers grounded in governed Power BI data, while Cowork can use those insights as part of broader multistep work. One piece is still on the roadmap: integration with the new Code experience is coming through the Frontier program.
A note on dates: Microsoft's blog post is dated September 28, the conference's opening day. TechTarget places the reveal on Tuesday, September 29. The event itself returns September 28-October 1, 2026, at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona.
Fabric IQ itself isn't new. Microsoft said in June that at Microsoft Build 2026, we announced the general availability of Fabric IQ. The Barcelona news is that Copilot can now draw on it directly.
Section summary:
  • Generally available: Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and Cowork.
  • Coming later: the Code experience integration, through the Frontier program.
  • What it's built on: the Power BI semantic models organizations already use.

What Fabric IQ actually is​

The name gets used loosely, so here's the definition. Microsoft Learn describes Fabric IQ as one part of Microsoft IQ, alongside three siblings:
  • Work IQ: context about how employees work.
  • Foundry IQ: context about an organization's policies and authoritative documents.
  • Web IQ: context from the web.
  • Fabric IQ: context about business entities and data.
Microsoft's documentation describes three layers of context:
  1. Unified data in OneLake. Shortcuts and mirroring let data from other clouds and on-premises systems be referenced where it lives instead of copied.
  2. Business intelligence, delivered through Power BI semantic models with their measures, hierarchies and dimensions.
  3. Operational intelligence, delivered through ontologies. These define entities, relationships, rules and metrics, and bind them to live data.
The labels need care. Microsoft calls Fabric IQ generally available, yet its Learn overview still marks the ontology item "preview" and lists the IQ workload itself as "IQ (preview)." In practice, admins should check the status of each item before building production workflows on it, not rely on the headline label.
Why does this matter? A database schema knows a column called cust_id. It doesn't know what your finance team counts as an "active customer." Microsoft's own documentation says that without that kind of semantic understanding, high-stakes questions still need a domain expert to translate them by hand. Fabric IQ is Microsoft's attempt to write those definitions down once so that reports, apps and agents all use them.

IQ sharing: announced, but thin on details​

IQ sharing is the most open-ended of the announcements. TechTarget describes it as a way to share governed data and context inside an organization and with third parties. Partners were ready on day one. One press release announced a launch partner for IQ Sharing in Microsoft Fabric, a new data and intelligence sharing capability unveiled at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) in Barcelona.
Several questions remain open in what was verified for this article:
  • Who can receive shared context, and how granular are the permissions?
  • What administrative controls does IQ sharing add, and how does it differ from existing Fabric sharing?
  • Which external platforms can consume the shared context?
Until Microsoft publishes documentation, treat external sharing as a governance decision first and a feature second. Sharing curated business definitions with a partner carries real risk, including exposure of your KPIs and logic, even if no raw data leaves your tenant.

Fabric Apps: the documentation is catching up with the pitch​

Fabric Apps is where developers will spend their time, and its status is more nuanced than the announcement suggests. Microsoft Learn still labels Fabric Apps a preview workload. It's built on the Rayfin SDK: developers define data models in TypeScript, and Fabric generates the APIs and handles authentication and hosting.
There's also a gap between Microsoft's own documents. The current Fabric Apps overview lists typed connectors for lakehouses, warehouses, SQL databases in Fabric and semantic models, which matches the Barcelona announcement. But a Power BI Learn page last updated in June still says the data app template connects to semantic models, with support for other Fabric data sources "coming soon." The documentation looks to be catching up with the announcement. Test each connector type in your own tenant before promising it to anyone.

Prerequisites for a Fabric app connected to a semantic model​

Microsoft documents the following requirements for the data app template with a semantic model connector:
  1. Node.js 20 or later, plus access to Fabric.
  2. A workspace where you have the Contributor, Member or Admin role, with Fabric capacity assigned.
  3. The Fabric Apps (preview) tenant setting enabled by a Fabric administrator. It can be turned on for the whole organization or for specific security groups.
  4. The Semantic Model Execute Queries REST API tenant setting enabled.
  5. Build and Read permissions on a semantic model hosted on Fabric or Power BI capacity.
  6. The workspace ID and item ID of the semantic model.
Microsoft says the Rayfin CLI is currently the supported way to create apps from the data app template. Deployed apps sign users in with Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on only, and Fabric Apps isn't available in every region yet.

When queries fail​

Microsoft's troubleshooting checklist boils down to a few checks:
  • Confirm the workspace and semantic model item IDs in rayfin.yml.
  • Confirm the Execute Queries tenant setting is on.
  • Confirm the user has Build and Read permissions on the semantic model.
  • Make sure the DAX references tables, columns and measures that actually exist.
  • Check the connector's error category and message, then the browser console.
Microsoft also says the template's data-app connections use the semantic model's live data. Users need the same permissions they would need to query that model in Power BI, so an app can't hand anyone access they don't already have.

A related security boundary worth knowing​

Separately from the Copilot news, Microsoft documents a Fabric IQ MCP server for developers who connect their own agents. According to Microsoft Learn, it's a remote, read-only server for Power BI reports and semantic models. It can inspect metadata and run DAX queries, it authenticates through Entra ID with delegated permissions, and it grants no access beyond what the signed-in user already has. This is a different surface from the Copilot integration, and the two shouldn't be confused. The design principle is the same, though: agents inherit your permissions and get no extra ones.

The analyst view: a real advantage, with caveats​

Independent analysts were broadly positive but not uncritical. Michael Ni of Constellation Research told TechTarget that Microsoft is turning Fabric into "an operating foundation for enterprise AI." He also said it remains to be seen whether Fabric IQ and its ontology layer can truly become an enterprise context layer. Ni named Databricks and Snowflake as competitors and said Microsoft's biggest advantage is distribution: it can connect Power BI, OneLake, SQL, Copilot and Fabric into one environment.
Mike Leone of Moor Insights & Strategy said most big data platforms are building semantic layers and agents right now, so Microsoft is in step with its rivals rather than ahead of them on direction. His argument for Microsoft's edge is Power BI. He said Microsoft has managed more than 20 million customer semantic models, a figure TechTarget attributes to him without independent verification. And very few data platforms also own the AI assistant people use at work.
Both analysts also had requests:
  • Ni wants Fabric IQ's semantics and ontology to be easier for third-party tools to consume, which would help organizations that don't run everything on Microsoft.
  • Leone suggested moving pieces of Fabric to Azure Local for customers facing data sovereignty rules. That's his recommendation, not an announced plan.
Microsoft's Azure Data CTO Amir Netz described the goal as curating context so agents can work the way employees do. He called Fabric IQ "almost like virtual reality for agents." It's a memorable line, but it's a vision statement. Nothing announced in Barcelona shows that agents will be reliable in production.

What admins and data teams should do now​

  • Plan for the generally available parts: Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and Cowork. Keep Fabric Apps, ontology and the Code experience in test environments.
  • Audit your semantic models. If Copilot now answers business questions from your Power BI models, messy measure names and duplicate definitions become an AI accuracy problem, not just a reporting annoyance.
  • Decide on the Fabric Apps tenant setting on purpose. Limit it to specific security groups at first rather than enabling it for everyone.
  • Hold off on external IQ sharing until Microsoft documents its permission model.
In short, Copilot can now answer from your governed Power BI data, and that part is generally available. Most of the rest is still preview or yet to be documented. The practical effect of all this is that your semantic models now feed Copilot's answers, so they deserve the same care as production systems.
 
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Microsoft wants Copilot to answer business questions using the numbers your finance team already agreed on, not a figure it pieced together from a stray spreadsheet. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, the company announced a set of changes across Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases. Taken together, they push governed enterprise data into Copilot, AI agents, monitoring, app development and database administration. Redmond Channel Partner summed up the direction as Microsoft treating governed organizational data as the base layer for production AI, rather than relying only on better models.
The package mixes generally available features, previews and roadmap items. The status labels matter, so this piece tracks them item by item.

A businesswoman reviews analytics on a laptop beside a glowing AI assistant and digital dashboard. Fabric IQ in Copilot: the headline GA feature​

The feature that ships now is Fabric IQ inside Copilot. According to Microsoft's official blog, Fabric IQ brings governed business context into Copilot, grounding experiences in the Power BI semantic models, metrics, relationships and business definitions organizations already trust. The company says that with Fabric IQ in Microsoft Copilot Chat and Cowork now generally available, users can ask business questions and receive answers grounded in governed Power BI data, while Cowork can use those insights as part of broader multistep work. One part is still on the roadmap: integration with the new Code experience is coming through the Frontier program.
Microsoft's Azure blog adds a point about cost: Microsoft Copilot customers can now tap into AI-powered insights from Fabric as part of their Copilot experience, without additional AI token costs. Microsoft also says the capability is on by default for Fabric and Power BI customers in Copilot Chat and Cowork, and that existing access controls and governance still apply.
The scale explains why Microsoft is leaning on Power BI. The Power BI team says that more than 22 million Power BI semantic models are in use every day, making Power BI the world's most widely adopted semantic layer. Two related items came out alongside it: Fabric IQ MCP is entering general availability, so creators can use the same conversational analytics in their own development environments and external MCP clients, and Microsoft gave an early look at semantic views, allowing users to define governed business metrics and semantics directly where data lives in OneLake.
A note on the status labels. Microsoft's documentation has lagged the announcement. An earlier indexed version of the Microsoft Learn page for Cowork said the Fabric IQ plugin is in preview and available to all Power BI customers who use Cowork. The current version of that page, updated September 23, says the plugin is a generally available feature of Microsoft Fabric. If your change-management process depends on status labels, record which document you checked and when.

How it works and what admins need to know​

The Microsoft Learn documentation for the Cowork plugin fills in operational details the announcement leaves out:
  • Permissions carry through. Cowork queries Power BI as the signed-in user. Item permissions and row-level security still apply, and Cowork cannot see data the user can't already see in Power BI.
  • Prerequisites. Users need at least Read permission on both the report and its underlying semantic model in their home Fabric tenant. Cowork uses usage-based (consumption) billing, so the organization needs the right Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing with Cowork billing enabled. The plugin itself needs no extra Fabric capacity, F SKU or Premium Per User licence beyond what your Power BI content already requires.
  • Two tenant switches.
    • In the Microsoft 365 admin center, "Fabric data available in M365 Copilot" is on by default. Turning it off removes Fabric context from Cowork responses.
    • In the Fabric admin portal, "Share Fabric data with your Microsoft 365 services" controls whether metadata is shared in advance so reports show up in Cowork search and the attachment menu. If it's off, users can still paste report links or name reports in their prompts.
  • Three ways to ground a chat:
    1. Attach a report using the + control.
    2. Paste a report URL.
    3. Mention a report by name.
  • Sensitivity labels follow the data. A conversation takes on the most restrictive label of any content used to answer it. Emails, meeting invites and files that Cowork creates from that conversation inherit the label.

Limitations to know before rollout​

According to the same documentation:
  • No source citations. Cowork doesn't cite the source report or semantic model in its data answers. Microsoft tells users to open the source report and confirm a number before acting on it.
  • No DLP. Data loss prevention isn't currently supported in Cowork.
  • Limited grounding sources. Grounding covers Power BI reports and the semantic models behind them. It doesn't cover dashboards, paginated (RDL) reports, share links, or Fabric items such as lakehouses, eventhouses, ontologies and data agents. You also can't reference a semantic model directly by name; it's queried through a report that uses it.
Earlier WindowsForum coverage put it bluntly: if your semantic models are messy, Copilot will repeat that mess with confidence. Grounding makes Copilot consistent with your models. It doesn't make it right if the models are wrong.
Summary: Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and Cowork is the one piece you can plan production use around now. Before users rely on it, check your tenant settings, audit your semantic models and explain the no-citation gap to them.

IQ Sharing: previewing context across company boundaries​

According to Microsoft, IQ Sharing is in preview as part of Fabric IQ. It lets organizations share selected data, plus the business context that gives it meaning, with customers, partners and wider ecosystems while keeping governance over the underlying assets. Microsoft says it starts with key Fabric IQ artifacts and context, and positions it alongside OneLake mirroring and shortcuts.
Microsoft hasn't published a complete list of supported artifacts or configuration steps. Treat this as something to try in a sandbox. Sharing context outside your company is a data-governance decision first and a feature toggle second.

Observability: cross-workspace monitoring and Operations Agents​

Microsoft describes cross-workspace monitoring and an enhanced Monitor Hub that give one view across jobs, capacities, workspaces and workloads. Operations Agents and Activator are meant to help teams investigate issues, find root causes with AI and automate responses. The announcement gives no status for each component.
The underlying building block is documented. Microsoft Learn describes workspace monitoring (preview) as the main way to turn on these observability features. Key points:
  • You manage it through a monitoring item that contains an Eventhouse, an Activator and an Operations Agent.
  • Data collection is off when the item is created. It doesn't backfill earlier activity.
  • Users with at least the Contributor role can query the read-only monitoring database with KQL, save KQL Querysets, build dashboards or Power BI reports, and create alerts.
  • Data is kept for 30 days by default. Retention and caching policies can be changed under Manage > Data policies.
  • To collect telemetry centrally, you can send data from several workspaces to one Eventhouse, but all of them must be in the same Azure region. You can't change that destination choice later.
  • Only one monitoring item can collect telemetry for a given workspace.
  • Monitoring uses Fabric capacity. Power BI reports and Activator alerts built on monitoring data can be throttled when capacity is under pressure. Ingestion and Real-Time Dashboards keep running.
  • Private Links are supported. If you run into problems, Microsoft's workaround is to disable Private Links, enable monitoring, then re-enable Private Links.
Summary: Plan monitoring destinations carefully, because the choice is permanent. Include the capacity cost in your budget, and don't count on alerts firing during a throttling event.

Agentic data engineering and Fabric Apps​

Microsoft says its new agentic data engineering features let engineers define an outcome and set limits. Within those limits, an agent plans and runs the work, checks the results and adjusts its approach. The announcement doesn't specify which workloads are supported, availability status, pricing, or how approvals and rollbacks work. Those details decide whether "autonomous" means helpful or alarming, so ask for them before connecting an agent to production pipelines.
Fabric Apps bring application development closer to Fabric data, with features for data connectivity, transactional workloads, backend logic, storage and policy-controlled access. Microsoft says this helps teams build faster, but that's a company claim, not a measured result. WindowsForum's earlier analysis recommended limiting the Fabric Apps tenant setting to specific security groups at first rather than enabling it for everyone.

Database Hub, database agents and SQL Server on Azure Local​

  • Database Hub in Fabric (public preview): Microsoft describes it as a central control plane for managing SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB and SQL databases in Fabric. It builds on the Hub's introduction at FabCon Atlanta.
  • Specialist SQL and PostgreSQL agents: Planned for Database Hub and Visual Studio Code and coming soon to public preview. They're intended to investigate issues, find performance bottlenecks and spot optimization opportunities. Microsoft hasn't listed supported versions or required permissions.
  • SQL Server on Azure Local (GA): Brings SQL Server and Azure services into local environments. A version with disconnected operations is in preview for sites where cloud connectivity is interrupted, restricted or unavailable, which matters for regulated and edge environments.

Status at a glance​

CapabilityStatus per Microsoft
Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and CoworkGenerally available
Fabric IQ in Copilot Code experienceComing via Frontier program
Fabric IQ MCPEntering GA
IQ SharingPreview
Workspace monitoringPreview (per Microsoft Learn)
Agentic data engineering, Fabric AppsStatus not specified in announcement
Database Hub in FabricPublic preview
SQL/PostgreSQL specialist agentsComing soon to public preview
SQL Server on Azure LocalGenerally available
SQL Server on Azure Local, disconnectedPreview

The bigger picture​

Microsoft's bet is simple. Models are becoming commodities, and what sets a company apart is its curated business context. For shops that already run Power BI, the GA Copilot integration adds value with no new data layer. It also means your semantic models now directly shape what Copilot tells executives. The practical steps:
  1. Treat semantic models as production assets.
  2. Review the two tenant switches.
  3. Tell users about the no-citation and no-DLP gaps.
  4. Keep previews such as IQ Sharing, workspace monitoring and Database Hub in test environments until their terms are final.
Microsoft says it will expand on this at Ignite, and many of the missing pricing and control details may arrive there.
 
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