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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

Features › Expense Agent

Ad hoc alternate approver

announced · 1 min in 1 video · dev relevance low · not in the documented features baseline (docs checked 2026-10-02)

Ad hoc alternate approver

An approver can delegate pending expense reports to a colleague. All pending reports are redirected.

Area: Expense Agent. Status: announced. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.

Status evidence

  • 10:11 in "What's new in Expense Agent: Improved Approval Process": "this is what how we will have about alternate and delegated approvers from November"

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 9:30 "I can delegate and I can use alternate approvers only if they are set up as approvers" - Prerequisite for delegation: the alternate must already be an approver.

Caveats mentioned

  • Alternate approvers must already be set up as approvers

Prerequisites mentioned

  • Alternate is set up as an approver

Documented features match

  • No documented item matched. Not documented

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.

Tags: expense, approvals, delegation

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.