Microsoft is rolling out an enforced retention lifecycle for unlicensed OneDrive for Business accounts starting in July 2026, moving accounts through read-only, archived, and deletion stages unless administrators take action.
Copilot Notebooks in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat are now available to all users with a Microsoft 365 Suite license, no longer limited to Copilot Premium. If not done already, an administrator should check the Cloud Policy to restrict Notebook creation.
Microsoft added a new Teams setting that lets users disable file previews in chats and channels, restoring the pre-June 2024 experience.
Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets users create and list Outlook Inbox rules directly from Copilot Chat via natural language, without opening Outlook settings.
Microsoft Teams now supports reusable event templates for meetings, webinars, and town halls in the new Events app, with no Teams Premium license required.
Microsoft has designated the Planner Agent as a core agent. Core agents are fully controlled by Microsoft. Find out what this means for your organization.
Microsoft is now adding new Intune and Defender features to Microsoft 365 Enterprise licenses. Check your licenses for new service plans and use my Microsoft Graph samples to verify their activation status.
Users can now search for cloud files directly in the Teams attach file picker, without browsing through OneDrive or SharePoint folders.
Microsoft is rolling out Express Voice enrollment in Teams, allowing users to register a voice profile passively by speaking during a meeting.
File-level archiving in SharePoint will be enabled by default for existing Microsoft 365 Archive customers starting in July 2026, changing the behavior from opt-in to opt-out. SharePoint admins should review the tenant settings before July.
Outlook on the web and the new Outlook now support multi-select for calendar events, just like in Outlook Classic.
Microsoft introduced a new admin setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center to control AI models in preview, including Anthropic’s Mythos-class models with data retention.
The Frontier Admin Control now supports Entra ID groups again for managing Frontier enrollment, alongside individual user assignments. Microsoft had removed this option in November 2025.
Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat now lets users submit their Copilot agents for review by IT administrators, making them available to everyone in the organization or to a specific group of people through the Agent Store.
Microsoft updated the licensing prerequisites for the Agent 365 standalone license. Enterprise customers now require Microsoft 365 E5, while SMB customers need Business Premium plus additional add-ons for full functionality.
Microsoft is preparing a new Entra admin role. The Entra Customer Lockbox Approver role provides a least privileged option for approving Customer Lockbox requests in Azure.
After 11 months working with Microsoft on a support case affecting multiple organizations, the SharePoint management team declined to fix the Teams private channel guest access issue. Here are the details explained.
Microsoft replaced the Meet app in Teams with an updated, unified Events app that aligns with the unified Teams Events experience. Previously, this app was accidentally deployed as an Outlook Mail app for Teams in specific tenants.
Audio Recap in Teams now supports additional languages, allowing users to customize executive- or podcast-style meeting summaries in their preferred language.
Microsoft will release the Planner Agent to general availability, enabling all Microsoft 365 Copilot users to create and manage tasks and plans within Copilot experiences. The agent is automatically preinstalled for eligible users, with no option to restrict the availability to specific users.