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Microsoft plans to change where Planner’s quick-capture private tasks live: rather than remaining unfiled items in the Private tasks view, new private tasks created in Planner and Planner-powered experiences will be stored in each user’s private plan. Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap lists the change as Roadmap ID 569426, in development for worldwide multi-tenant tenants, with general availability targeted for September 2026. The practical change is more consequential than the brief roadmap...

Microsoft Purview’s Data Security Triage Agent is supposed to bring its AI-generated DLP alert summaries and risk categorizations into Microsoft Defender XDR’s alert queue, giving security analysts one place to review the alert and the agent’s assessment. But Microsoft’s public records now disagree on whether that capability should be arriving this month or roughly a year from now. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry submitted for Roadmap ID 558860, last modified on August 17, lists the feature...

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is slated to gain a more direct way to find Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, and personal Loop content: investigators will be able to select SharePoint Embedded containers owned or created by a chosen person as a data source. Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry 569364 lists a September 2026 preview and October 2026 general-availability target for the web-based capability. The practical change is narrow but important for compliance teams. These...

A purported McDonald’s employee-directory dump is being offered by a forum seller who claims to have taken more than 1.7 million records from the company’s Microsoft Azure tenant, but the only material evidence publicly described so far is an 8,000-row sample. That distinction is the important one for IT teams: the sample may be consistent with a real Microsoft Entra ID export, yet neither the seller’s claimed record total, the date of collection, nor the alleged use of compromised...

MakeUseOf’s latest Windows 11 shutdown tip gets one important thing right: the AutoEndTasks registry value can tell Windows to stop waiting for a user session’s unresponsive applications during sign-out, restart, or shutdown. But its accompanying recommendation to set the system-wide WaitToKillServiceTimeout value to 0 milliseconds is a far riskier change than the article makes it sound—and it is not a fix for the program that caused the stall in the first place. The distinction matters for...

Microsoft’s August 17 Windows 11 Insider flights contain an important correction to the day’s early coverage: the redesigned File Explorer context menu is rolling out in Experimental Preview Build 26340.9212, not across all five builds released today. Thurrott.com accurately listed the five new builds, but its statement that the menu is the biggest new feature “in each” does not match Microsoft’s own channel-by-channel release notes. Microsoft’s Windows Insider Blog says the new right-click...

Windows 11 Insider Preview build 29648.1000 removes the wmic.exe command-line utility from Microsoft’s Experimental (Future Platforms) branch, turning a long-running deprecation notice into a compatibility test for the earliest Windows builds. Neowin reported the flight on August 17, and the accompanying release notes also retire the Drag Tray feature, add small Windows Security interface changes, and fix a Magnifier launch problem. The WMIC removal is the change administrators should take...

Microsoft has removed the Windows 11 file-sharing overlay it calls Drag Tray from three new Insider builds released August 17, after acknowledging that Insider feedback had turned against the feature. The change affects Beta build 26220.9202 for Windows 11 version 25H2, Beta 26H1 build 28020.2731, and Experimental 26H1 build 28120.2738. Windows Central first reported the removal, but Microsoft’s own release notes make the scope clearer: this is not a one-channel rollback or a temporary pause...

Microsoft’s August 17 Windows 11 Insider flight is more consequential for administrators than its redesigned File Explorer right-click menu suggests: WMIC has now been removed across all five newly published preview builds, while the Experimental branch also receives a new context menu, Emoji 17.0 support, and an update certificate intended to keep Insider installations eligible for future flights. The release is split across Windows 11 version 25H2, 26H1, 26H2, and an Experimental Future...

Microsoft Edit is already built into far more Windows 11 PCs than many installation guides suggest, but the important cutoff is not Windows 11 25H2 alone. Microsoft added the command-line editor through the September 2025 optional update, KB5065789, for both Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. On a fully serviced PC in either release, the first step is simply to open Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal and run edit. That distinction changes the advice for users and administrators. A guide...

sysdm.cpl still opens one of Windows’ most useful legacy control surfaces, but a new Microsoft document undercuts the central claim in How-To Geek’s August 17 report: Windows Settings now has a native point-in-time restore configuration page. The catch is that it is not a wholesale replacement for the older System Protection tab, and Microsoft’s own documentation labels the newer recovery workflow as preview. That distinction matters for anyone using Windows 11 to prepare for driver changes...

NVIDIA’s 2028 Feynman data-center GPU is reportedly being lined up for TSMC’s A16 process rather than the N2/2nm family, a choice that would put backside power delivery at the center of NVIDIA’s next major AI platform. The claim comes from a DigiTimes report summarized by TweakTown, which says mass production is targeted for the second half of 2028. NVIDIA and TSMC have not confirmed Feynman’s manufacturing node, production date, or the reported packaging plan. The report is plausible, but...

GitHub experienced a broad service disruption on Monday, August 17, with failures affecting the web experience and downloads used by developers and automated build systems. GitHub’s status page reported roughly a 20% error rate for web traffic and failures on about half of archive and content-download requests while engineers investigated the cause and worked on mitigation. As reported by Sunday Guardian Live, GitHub first acknowledged degraded performance at 9:40 a.m. Eastern, then said it...

Files version 4.2.7 is now available with a faster right-click menu, lower memory use after tabs close, and small but practical navigation changes. The update matters most to people who already use the open-source Windows file manager for tab-heavy work: according to the Files project’s August 17 release note, its in-app context menu should open “noticeably faster and more responsive,” while File Explorer users are still waiting for Microsoft’s broader work on menu latency to reach general...

Microsoft Teams administrators have passed the remediation deadline for two classes of private channels that Microsoft says cannot move to its updated private-channel infrastructure: channels with an empty roster, and channels populated only by guests without an in-tenant owner. MakeUseOf reports that Microsoft has now begun soft-deleting eligible channels, starting a 30-day recovery window before permanent removal. The immediate job is not a broad hunt for every private channel that lacks...

AIDA64 Extreme 8.35.8405 beta, published on August 16, has added “preliminary support for AMD Zen 7 server processors,” putting the Windows hardware-monitoring utility ahead of AMD’s scheduled 2028 launch window for its next-generation EPYC platform. The entry is real: FinalWire’s own release notes contain the exact language. But it is also deliberately narrow, and it should not be mistaken for a Zen 7 leak, a benchmark-ready platform, or evidence that retail EPYC Florence silicon is about...

Zendesk began rolling out its Employee Service AI Agents early-access program on August 3, 2026, putting permission-aware enterprise search into Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zendesk help centers for eligible Employee Service Suite customers. The immediate change for IT and HR teams is not autonomous account provisioning: it is a new conversational front door that can retrieve answers from sources including SharePoint, Teams, Google Drive, Confluence, Box, Notion, Seismic, and web content...

South Africa’s Department of Public Service and Administration has opened a new bid, SCM003/2026, to build and deliver a training programme for Departmental Information Security Officers across the public service. The practical significance is larger than a typical training contract: the officers being targeted are the people assigned to turn government security policy into working controls for identity, endpoints, networks, applications, cloud services and suppliers. ITWeb first highlighted...

Windows 11 users who want macOS-style, spacebar-driven file previews can get them with the open-source QuickLook utility, but the installation method matters more than TechPP’s new guide suggests. The project’s own documentation draws a sharp line between its Microsoft Store package and its traditional installer: the Store version has no Open/Save dialog support, while the installer, Scoop package, and nightly builds support previews in those file-picker windows. That is the difference...

Wispr Flow’s new Notetaker is now available on Mac, adding meeting recording, live transcripts, AI summaries, speaker labels, action items, and searchable meeting history to a product previously centered on voice dictation. The important operational detail is easy to miss: the feature records system audio locally without sending a visible bot into a Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Slack Huddle call. That makes it less disruptive than the familiar “AI notetaker has joined” experience...