What brings the M-Files and Microsoft 365 Strategic Partnership

On the 1st of July 2025 M-Files and Microsoft announced their strategic partnership with the headline “M-Files and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership Revolutionising Document Management”
I was wondering myself what does this will mean for us and a M-Files Partner and for our customers. What are the new features and benefits. In this blog article I will share the information and my perspective about this phantasmic announcement.

One of the hot topics is the fundamental shift of how enterprise content is managed within the M-Files and the Microsoft ecosystem.

Main Features

Thanks to the strategic partnership between M-Files and Microsoft, M-Files will now be able to use features such as the ones below. This unlocks the native Microsoft 365 capabilities for M-Files AI-curated content.

• Microsoft 365 and its API-only service
• SharePoint Embedded
• Document co-authoring

This powerful solution is native to Microsoft 365, offering the best of both worlds.

M-Files strengthen:

• Automation of M-Files including their strengths in metadata
• Use one client to access data and features to make work easier

Microsoft’s power:

• Copilot capabilities
• Collaboration tools
• Security integeration

Benefits we get out of the strategic partnership

• Generative AI results based on the M-Files content
• Be insured that the results are accurate, relevant and can be trusted
• Ground the fundamental base for the AI journey
• Native document co-authoring with Microsoft applications
• Native collaboration with the trusted Microsoft tools
• M-Files automated content government and permission and secure content remains within the Microsoft security boundary
• Use of Microsoft Purview to use compliance and governance policies

Requirements and availibility of the solution

Requirements for M-Files and Micrososft 365:

• M-Files Cloud
• M-Files Business platform
• Microsoft 365 subscription

Desktop co-authoring is already enabled for M-Files Cloud customers with a Business Platform subscription. Detailed instructions on how to unlock all the benefits and capabilities will be available in August 2025. Stay tuned — I will share further details as soon as they are available!

Conclusion

As has been noted in previous blogs, the direction of travel is towards incorporating AI in the optimum way. And to ensure optimal security boundaries.

This announcement is important because it provides a centralised, scalable environment for managing and supporting your business requirements. Topics include effortlessly finding documents, managing the entire document lifecycle, effective collaboration, gaining actionable insights faster, and ensuring robust governance. Using AI to achieve all this will boost productivity and reduce risk for your business.

If you would like to hear the perspective of a Microsoft architect on this strategic partnership, you can watch this video.

I hope this blog gives you a good idea of the strategic partnership between M-Files and Microsoft. Keep an eye out for more blog posts about M-Files on this channel, and be sure to check out the other blogs that are around the M-Files topic.

Do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions, or contact me directly if you prefer.