Microsoft added a new setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center to control who can upload advanced agents and plugins to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cowork, including uploads from the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit.
Microsoft has published a new Planner usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, giving administrators visibility into total unique users, daily active user trends, and per-user activity details across Planner Basic and Planner Premium plans.
Microsoft is changing the default visibility of 11 profile card properties starting 24 August 2026. Administrators who want to keep the current configuration must update it manually beforehand.
The Microsoft 365 Admin Agent is now generally available as a Microsoft-managed agent, giving all administrators with an Entra built-in role AI-powered access across the admin center and Copilot Chat. If you don’t need this agent, block it.
Microsoft has started phase 4 of unifying app and agent management, bringing cross-platform apps into a single, synchronized experience across the Microsoft 365 and Teams admin center. A Global Administrator should start the transition.
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.
Teams meetings now support automatic transcription without recording. Meeting organizers can select “Transcribe only” when scheduling, giving them more granular control in environments where recording is restricted by compliance or privacy policies.
A new control in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center lets administrators assign third-party model provider access to specific users or Entra ID groups, rather than enabling it for the entire tenant. The setting is also enforced across Power Platform environments and Copilot Studio agents.
The Frontier Admin Control is being updated with a single control point for managing access to experimental Frontier features across Microsoft 365 apps, platforms, and Copilot agents.
Microsoft is rolling out a new three-tier release model for Microsoft 365, starting with Copilot in May. The new Frontier, Standard, Deferred tiers should give organizations greater control over when users receive new features.
Microsoft reports the migration of private channels is 95% complete, with completion expected by late April 2026. Teams admins should check the migration state to determine whether their tenant is affected by failed channel migrations.
A new app installation experience in the Teams Admin Center lets apps be installed individually for users, groups, or Everyone, finally replacing the inflexible app setup policies.
SharePoint admins can now disable site branding for individual site collections via PowerShell. Organizations with a Multi-Geo setup must move theme creation to the primary geo, and branding changes are recorded in Purview Audit Logs.
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.
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.
The Researcher agent now includes seven pre-enabled 3rd-party connectors for users in Frontier mode. These federated connectors allow real-time access to external data sources.
Microsoft has published two new Entra admin roles: Teams External Collaboration Administrator and Authentication Extensibility Password Administrator, covering Teams External Collaboration settings and Just-In-Time password migration in Entra External ID.
Microsoft is rolling out Anthropic as a subprocessor for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Administrators should review and control the setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Microsoft is improving the administrative capabilities for People Skills in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, introducing new controls to turn People Skills on or off for specific users, centralized feature access management, and upcoming support for importing custom skills from local devices.
Microsoft is introducing Baseline Security Mode in the Microsoft 365 admin center, providing a central dashboard with 18 recommended security settings for Office products, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, and Entra.