The People Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot helps users understand colleagues, prepare for meetings, and find expertise by surfacing relevant People Skills from their existing Microsoft 365 data.
If SharePoint cannot set or update a user’s OneDrive storage quota, the root cause is primarily a reused UPN. The Diag support tool corrects the mismatch so storage settings work again.
Microsoft has added a new option to the SharePoint Knowledge Agent: per-site opt-in. Administrators can now enable the agent only on selected sites, giving more control during the Public Preview.
Researcher Agent with Computer Use enables secure web interactions in a sandboxed environment, generating richer outputs based on both web and organizational data.
Microsoft will retire the Visio Data Visualizer Add-in for Excel in March 2026. Existing diagrams in Excel will stop rendering. Users must export their diagrams to Visio format before the shutdown.
Teams now supports emojis in custom section names, allowing users to personalise and visually organise their navigation.
Microsoft is rolling out four new Entra ID admin roles, covering SharePoint Advanced Management and the lifecycle of AI agents in Copilot.
Microsoft will retire the Favorite contacts feature in Places. Going forward, Places should surface frequent contacts based on Microsoft 365 usage patterns.
Admins can now remove users from Teams group chats and 1:1 conversations directly from Microsoft Defender, helping speed up incident response and containment.
Microsoft is rolling out an updated licensing experience in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, offering clearer visibility into license assignments and improved tools for identifying and resolving licensing issues.
Windows 11 now supports managing Passkeys with 1Password and Bitwarden, offering more flexibility than the built-in Windows option.
Microsoft will retire the Send to Kindle integration in Word for Windows, Mac, and the web. The feature lets users upload Word documents directly to their Kindle library.
Microsoft has added source control to the Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Users can now choose where Copilot searches (for example, Web, Work, SharePoint, Emails, Meetings, or Chats) for more targeted and transparent results.
Microsoft is rolling out Collaborative Notes in Teams Chats, stored in new SharePoint Embedded containers named IC3_TeamsContainerType. Each chat note creates its own container, but the containers seem to be in development and not yet finished.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Search in Teams Settings capability that lets users quickly find configuration options by typing keywords.
Microsoft has expanded the Microsoft-managed default app consent policy in Entra ID to block 20 additional permissions, including access to Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar, and Teams data
Microsoft will retire the option to manage Copilot Frontier access via Entra ID groups. AI Admins must assign users individually going forward.
Microsoft keeps expanding Teams with new language translation capabilities, including live translated captions, Multilingual Speech Recognition, and the Interpreter Agent. Here’s how these features differ.
Microsoft will retire the Reuse Slides feature from PowerPoint for Windows and Mac. Users should instead use Copy & Paste or Drag & Drop to reuse slides.
Microsoft republished its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise licenses with Teams and retired Power Platform and Dynamics 365 SKUs. Microsoft still offers a free Office 365 E3 Developer license, and my monthly update now also includes a table of Microsoft cloud product promotions.