Microsoft has introduced a new admin role: Entra SOC Identity Responder. The role lets SOC analysts disable accounts, revoke sessions, and reset passwords for rapid incident containment without broader Entra admin access.
Microsoft now supports multiple billing policies for Microsoft 365 Backup, letting organizations separate backup costs by department.
Microsoft has published a new Pay-as-you-go service in the Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Backup. Organizations using Microsoft 365 Backup should migrate to the new billing policies.
Microsoft is rolling out an update that keeps recently used emojis and reactions consistent across Teams devices, including Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android.
Built-in Teams agents (such as Facilitator, Channel Agent, and Copilot Agent in Teams) now have their own dedicated governance experience in the Teams admin center, separate from traditional app management.
Assistant information now also appears in the Organization section of the profile card, including in Org Explorer, Outlook, and Teams, improving discoverability across Microsoft 365 for users.
Microsoft is simplifying the Broadcast and Collaborative event types with a new large audience setting in Teams Events. The setting automatically applies to events with more than 1,000 attendees.
Microsoft is adding a way to open links to Teams messages in chats or channels in a separate window, so users can view a linked conversation without leaving the one they are already in.
Microsoft is retiring the Surveys agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot on 31 August 2026, moving its capabilities directly into Copilot in Microsoft Forms.
Microsoft will automatically enable OpenAI as a subprocessor for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio on 24 July 2026, unless administrators opt out beforehand.
Microsoft will remove auto-pinning for the Microsoft 365 companion apps from the admin center by the end of July 2026. Going forward, this control will only pin the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
Teams now supports apps, including bots, tabs, and message extensions, in Private channels, matching the model already in place for Shared channels. Previously, only a limited set of tabs was supported in such channels.
Microsoft has updated the cadence for local currency pricing adjustments in its Commercial Cloud services, moving from twice a year to once a year. Updates every January, with advance notice each November.
Events in Microsoft Teams now support SRT as an inbound streaming protocol alongside RTMP, offering better resilience for external encoder setups.
Teams now offers a quick sound check on the pre-join screen, letting users test their microphone and speaker before joining a meeting.
Organization-curated prompts let administrators publish approved, ready-to-use prompts directly into Copilot Chat, shaping how users discover and interact with Copilot across the organization.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention now supports blocking or allowing external access to sensitive SharePoint and OneDrive for Business files by domain or specific email address, moving from Public Preview to general availability.
Copilot Chat is now available directly within Planner Basic plans, helping users manage tasks through natural language. The option is currently limited to users enrolled in the Frontier program.
Microsoft is introducing a new tenant-level control to govern whether applications and agents can access Teams transcripts via the Microsoft Graph API. This control will be enforced after 29 July 2026. Because it’s disabled by default, access to Graph API transcripts will be blocked automatically unless a Teams administrator explicitly enables it.
Microsoft has updated the release model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing administrators to assign Entra ID groups to specific update channels for streamlined deployment control.