Teams app and agent trust scores delayed until September
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft has pushed back general availability of organisation evaluation scores for Teams apps and agents. Message Center update MC1218713 (roadmap ID 532720) now targets late September 2026 for worldwide and GCC start, finishing early October, instead of the earlier July window. Admins will define organisational trust requirements once, such as GDPR, SOC 2, or data residency. The service then produces a score and a detailed evaluation report for each app and agent. A new score column will appear under Teams admin center > Teams apps > Manage apps, with sort and filter, and a full report on the App details page. The feature is planned to be on by default. It is informational only. It does not block apps or change enablement behaviour.
Until now, small admin teams judged third-party apps and the growing pile of agents by reading privacy statements, guessing at data residency, and hoping nothing risky slipped through. That review does not scale when agents multiply alongside ordinary Teams apps. The delay buys roughly two months before scores land in Manage apps. When they do, you get a consistent signal against criteria you set once, instead of another manual spreadsheet. It still will not enforce policy for you. If your trust criteria and app inventory are messy when the column appears, the score becomes noise rather than a decision aid.
Analysis
Treat this as a prep window, not a feature to wait for. Draft the short list of trust requirements your organisation actually cares about, and mark which apps and agents already sit in your tenancy so the new column has something useful to rank when it arrives in late September.
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