Microsoft is retiring Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) in SharePoint Online. Organizations should move to Restricted Content Discovery. Organizations using RSS should act, as SharePoint content previously excluded from search can become discoverable once RSS stops enforcing these restrictions.
Copilot Premium users can now open referenced Outlook emails side by side with their Copilot Chat conversation.
Microsoft has published a new promotional offer for the Defender for Cloud Apps standalone license, allowing eligible customers to order a free Microsoft 365 E5 Information Protection and Governance upgrade for up to three years.
With the Planner Agent now generally available, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat can return Microsoft To Do tasks for Copilot Premium users.
Microsoft will terminate existing Office 365 E3 Developer subscriptions in September 2026. Find out which tenants are affected and what steps to take before the deadline.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Purview role groups page with roles, members, and permissions, making it easier for Compliance administrators to see who has access to what.
Microsoft will reduce eCDN analytics data retention from 360 days to 180 days, effective 27 July 2026. Older records are deleted automatically.
A new Teams admin center rule notifies administrators when a Teams desktop client rollout begins in their tenant. The new rule is disabled by default and allows admins to specify which release ring and platform to monitor.
Microsoft has updated the Teams file download experience with an Edge-inspired download manager that hides notifications after four seconds, keeping your workspace clean without losing track of your files.
Your event organizers should be aware of this limit if they start using the new Teams Events app. Collaborative events have a hard limit of 1000 attendees. No view-only fallback, no exceptions. More attendees are rejected.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is introducing vision capabilities to voice sessions on desktop and mobile, allowing users to share screens and cameras. Administrators can already control the feature.
Microsoft is increasing the Teams breakout room participant limit to 1000 and the room limit to 200, enabling breakout sessions in much larger meetings.
Microsoft 365 Copilot now works within shared and delegated mailboxes in Outlook, allowing executive assistants, support staff, and other users to summarize messages and draft replies without switching to their own mailbox.
Microsoft is rolling out a new cost management dashboard for Microsoft 365 Copilot services, finally bringing monthly spending limit policies for organizations, Copilot services, and user groups.
Microsoft Teams voicemail transcription is moving to Azure LLM Speech, improving accuracy and speed while adding automatic language detection for 14 new languages.
Microsoft is rolling out Edge Enterprise Preview to general availability, letting users in the Beta or Dev channel flight prerelease builds directly within the Stable application.
Edge Extension Monitoring is now generally available, giving administrators a centralized view of installed Edge extensions and a single place to manage extension requests across their organization.
Microsoft is updating the port and domain requirements for RTMP-In streaming in Teams Events. Administrators need to update firewall rules before mid-July 2026 to keep streaming working.
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.