What's new in SharePoint Embedded

March 2026

SharePoint Embedded agent SDK has been deprecated in favor of the new SharePoint Embedded knowledge source in Microsoft Foundry.
fileStorageContainerType resource has a new permissions relationship that allows management of the container type's owners. This is available in the beta Microsoft Graph endpoint. For more information, see Managing SharePoint Embedded applications created in the owning tenant.
fileStorageContainer resource has a new informationBarrier property that allows management of the container's information barrier. This is available in the beta Microsoft Graph endpoint. For more information, see Information Barriers.
The SharePoint Embedded native PDF viewing experience now supports searching within the file, viewing comments and sticky notes embedded on the file, and printing. The new features are now available via the driveItem: preview API in both the beta and v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoints.

fileStorageContainer APIs to list columns, create column, update column, and delete column are now available in the v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoint.

fileStorageContainerType APIs are now available in the v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoint.
fileStorageContainerTypeRegistration APIs are now available in the v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoint.

SharePoint Embedded is now available in Microsoft 365 GCC (not yet GCC High or DoD) for US Government customers. For more information, see Microsoft Graph national cloud deployments.
SharePoint Embedded migration APIs are now available in the v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoint.

recycleBinItem: restore supports driveItemId as an alternate key to enable restoring a recycleBinItem if the ID of the original driveItem is known.
Microsoft 365 Archive is previewing support for SharePoint Embedded to a limited number of customers. You can sign up for the private preview today.

SharePoint Embedded migration APIs are now available in the beta Microsoft Graph endpoint.
driveItem: invite has clearer documentation on restrictions for the root item of drives in OneDrive for home, and inviting new guests via app-only access.
driveItem: copy has clearer documentation on behaviors around metadata, versions, cross-geo operations, and known issues.
New cmdlets for consuming tenant administrators to add, remove, or change container membership were added to the SharePoint Embedded Containers Management Shell.

fileStorageContainerType APIs are now available in the beta Microsoft Graph endpoint.
fileStorageContainerTypeRegistration APIs are now available in the beta Microsoft Graph endpoint.

driveItem: copy now supports the childrenOnly and includeAllVersionHistory request parameters in the v1.0 Microsoft Graph endpoint.

The CopilotEmbeddedChatHosts container type setting is now required to use SharePoint Embedded agent. It must be set by the application owner via Set-SPOContainerTypeConfiguration and can optionally be overridden by consuming tenant administrators via Set-SPOApplication.

The limit of container types that a partner tenant can create has been increased to 25 by default. For more information, see Limits and Calling Patterns.
SharePoint Embedded agent switched to a consumption-based model for all users regardless of whether they have a Copilot license or not. For more information, see SharePoint Embedded agent.
The guidance on how to grant admin consent to a SharePoint Embedded application has been updated to use URL-based admin consent. For more information, see Authentication and authorization.
Documented an exceptional access pattern for operations that may require a user license. For more information, see Authentication and authorization.