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.
Starting in June 2026, OneDrive for iOS and Android will block sign-ins using SharePoint Server on-premises credentials. Microsoft Entra ID and personal Microsoft accounts are not affected.
Microsoft added a new SharePoint tenant setting to enable or disable email notifications when a Teams meeting recording is deleted after expiration.
SharePoint PAYG storage is now available in public preview, allowing organizations to pay only for storage used above their included quota rather than pre-purchasing additional capacity.
Microsoft Forms now supports Purview Sensitivity Labels, enabling authors and co-authors to classify forms and maintain consistent data protection across exported content.
Microsoft Teams now offers dedicated sections for muted and meeting chats, with the muted section enabled by default and the meeting chats section disabled by default.
Microsoft has added new Inbox rule actions to Outlook on the web and the new Outlook: clear mail categories, permanently delete a message, and manage email flags.
Microsoft informed about the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, previously available in the Frontier program, bringing personalized, AI-assisted upskilling to the tools users already use.
Microsoft is introducing sensitivity label support for video files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive or edited via Clipchamp. The feature is in public preview and disabled by default.
Microsoft introduced Authoritative Sites for SharePoint, allowing administrators to designate sites as trusted sources of organizational information prioritized in Copilot Chat and Copilot Search, with two-class search results for your users.
Microsoft added Mistral AI as a selectable LLM provider in Copilot Studio. Mistral Medium 3.5 is currently in Public Preview and experimental, and must be explicitly enabled by an administrator before makers can use it.
Microsoft has released a new OneDrive Extra Storage add-on and retired the SharePoint and OneDrive standalone plans. New Windows 365 Enterprise hardware configurations are also available.
The unified Teams Events experience introduces a new Registration setting for all Teams Events in the Meet app, available by default.
“Go to Folder” is now available in the new Outlook and Outlook for the web, letting users jump directly to any folder without scrolling through nested folder structures.
Teams now preserves @mentions, @tags, and shared contacts when copying and pasting messages across chats and channel conversations.
Microsoft has added agentic calendar capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot for users in the Frontier program, enabling users to automatically accept, decline, and manage Outlook meetings.
Microsoft has introduced a new plannerTaskChatMessage endpoint in Microsoft Graph. The endpoint allows full management of the new chat-based Planner comments, currently limited to delegated permissions. My post covers eight samples for all key operations.