Starting 1 March, Microsoft introduced a monthly commitment term for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, allowing organizations to subscribe without a yearly commitment. The new term comes at a 20% surcharge and is available across all Microsoft 365 Business license packages.
Microsoft is adding the new Purview RBAC role Purview Agent Deployment, also added to several built-in role groups. Together with the existing Purview Agent roles, organizations can now enforce a clear separation of duties across agent administration, analysis, and deployment.
Edge administrators can now prevent users from installing browser apps via the new WebAppInstallByUserEnabled policy, while keeping IT-managed app deployments unaffected.
Microsoft Teams on the web now consolidates speaker, microphone, and camera controls into a single device settings panel, making it easier for users to configure their audio and video before or during meetings.
Organizations should update Secure Boot certificates ahead of the June 2026 expiration deadline. In this post, I share my personal experience deploying these certificates via Intune, encountering a licensing error, working around it with a registry key, resolving a BIOS-related failure, and verifying the final result with PowerShell.
Microsoft Teams is getting a new setting that lets users control what happens when they press Enter while writing a message, helping prevent accidental sends and making the compose experience more predictable.
Viva Engage communities are now rolling out in Microsoft Teams, bringing conversations and leadership engagement into the flow of daily collaboration. The new experience is enabled by default for users with access to Viva Engage.
Microsoft is retiring the Bing-powered Web Search pivot in the SharePoint image picker. Learn what this means for your page authors and what alternatives are available.
PowerPoint Live Captions & Subtitles will require a minimum app version starting in September 2026. Users running older versions on Windows or Mac will lose access to this feature unless they update.
Edge Enterprise Preview makes it easier to switch between Stable and Beta channels in Edge for Business, but switching back from Beta to Stable can trigger an unexpected browser reset.
Outlook is getting a new Graphics button, bringing emojis, stock images, and stickers to the new Outlook and Outlook on the web.
Microsoft will soon enable Edge to share browsing history with Microsoft 365 Copilot Search. Learn how to control this behavior.
Microsoft Places transitions to space-based licensing in April 2026. The new Teams Shared Space license replaces the Places Enhanced service plan previously included in Teams Premium.
Microsoft has enhanced the Defender Tenant Allow/Block List to support blocking external Teams users and domains, centralizing external access controls across Microsoft 365.
Edge Workspaces is dropping its collaboration feature as Microsoft moves workspace data from OneDrive to the Edge Sync service. Organizations should notify their users that the collaborative sharing feature in such workspaces will no longer be available.
Microsoft is bringing dark mode support to the SharePoint admin center, allowing admins to manually toggle between light and dark themes, independent of browser settings and with no impact on end users.
Microsoft has enabled the new “What’s new” page starting with Edge 145. It opens automatically after major browser updates and highlights the latest features in Edge and Microsoft 365 Copilot for users signed in with Entra ID accounts.
Microsoft will retire Context IQ suggestions in Outlook. Users will no longer see document suggestions when typing “/” in an email and should instead use sharing links, drag and drop, or traditional attachments to insert files.
Microsoft will retire the Outlook for Windows usage report in the Exchange Admin Center starting in April 2026. Administrators should use the Microsoft 365 Admin Center report instead.
Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets users schedule meetings directly from Copilot Chat. Users can find time slots, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites without leaving the conversation, though some limitations still apply.