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The microsoft 365 tag on WindowsForum.com covers the administration, security, and lifecycle of Microsoft 365 services in enterprise and education settings. Recent discussions highlight migration deadlines for legacy Whiteboard and Teams private channels, changes to Planner private tasks, and the consolidation of Copilot apps. Security is a recurring theme, with reports on AiTM phishing campaigns that steal session tokens to access mail and financial data. The tag also includes coverage of university transitions from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, the handling of enterprise data in bankruptcy sales, and the status of Exchange Server updates. For IT professionals, the tag offers practical guidance on managing Microsoft 365 changes and protecting tenant environments.
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    Outlook.com Spam Filter Blocked Legitimate Emails: Microsoft Restores Service, Urges Resends

    Microsoft has confirmed that a spam-rule update incorrectly blocked legitimate email headed to some Outlook-family addresses, leaving recipients with missing messages and senders with misleading authentication errors. The company rolled back the change and restored mail flow, according to its...
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    Italy’s Microsoft 365 Copilot Trial for Judges: Data Protection and Defence Transparency Questions

    Italy’s Ministry of Justice says data used in its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial remain segregated within its institutional tenant and are not used to train AI models, according to reporting by Il Sole 24 Ore. The ministry also draws a firm boundary around the experiment: AI may support judicial...
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    Microsoft Copilot Connectors Update: Shared Catalog, New Data Sources and Admin Controls

    Microsoft’s October 2026 Copilot connectors update expands where enterprise data can appear, adds specialist sources, and gives administrators better control over the connections feeding Copilot. The headline is a shared connector catalog across Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and...
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    Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Orchestrated Migration: Shared Data GA Targeted for December 2026

    Microsoft’s roadmap lists Cross-Tenant Orchestrated Migration for the Microsoft 365 admin center, with a December 2026 general-availability target and a scope that includes both individual user data and shared collaboration resources. Roadmap item 576273 remains marked In development: this is a...
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    Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data Launch: Microsoft 365 Competition and Admin Considerations — Megathread

    Anthropic launched three new workspaces inside Claude on November 10, 2026. Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta, and the former Claude Dashboards is now generally available as Claude Data. Anthropic's help page says Claude Sheets is in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans. The...
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    Databricks Genie One Adds Windows App and Teams Integration: Microsoft 365 and Security Limits

    Databricks is expanding Genie One into a workspace for searching company knowledge, creating deliverables, and taking action across connected applications. Its November 11 announcement puts Genie Ontology at the center of business context and Unity Gateway in charge of governing that work—a...
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    Copilot in Excel Interactive Canvas: AI Dashboards, Animated Charts and Audit Limits

    A spreadsheet that animates when you press a play button sounds unlikely, but that is the main claim in a new demonstration of Copilot in Excel. Geeky Gadgets, writing up a walkthrough by Excel trainer Leila Gharani, says Copilot's interactive canvas produced a full travel-and-expense dashboard...
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    Microsoft Seeks Dismissal of Student Data Privacy Lawsuit Over School Software

    Microsoft is asking a Washington state court to dismiss a proposed class action brought by four students over alleged collection of their personal information through school-provided software, including Microsoft 365 and Minecraft Education. According to Ben Adlin’s November 10 report for...
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    Microsoft Cancels Copilot PowerPoint Outline Editing in Pages: Roadmap 501785 Withdrawn

    Microsoft has pulled a planned Copilot feature from its roadmap. Roadmap item 501785 promised that users could edit and collaborate on a Copilot-generated PowerPoint outline in a Page before the deck was built. Microsoft now lists that item as Cancelled. Its note says the entry is no longer...
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    Copilot Notebooks Now Available in OneNote on the Web: Access, Licensing and Troubleshooting

    Copilot Notebooks now has an official place in OneNote on the web. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 511797, titled "OneNote: Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Web," says users can now reach their Copilot Notebooks from the browser version of OneNote. The entry is marked Launched and General...
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    Copilot People Connector Privacy Controls Delayed to June 2027: What Admins Need to Know

    Microsoft wants Copilot to know more about your coworkers' skills, projects, certifications and work history. The catch is that, today, anything brought in through a people connector can be seen by everyone in the organization. A new item on the Microsoft 365 roadmap is meant to change that, and...
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    New Outlook and Web Roll Out Block-All External Images Setting for Privacy

    Some email images are tiny spies. You open a newsletter, the picture loads from someone's server, and the sender learns the message was read. Microsoft is giving Outlook users more control over that. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 565862, titled "Outlook: Block External Images Settings Update," says...
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    New Outlook to Preserve Folder and Shared Mailbox Expansion Across Restarts

    New Outlook for Windows is getting a small fix that a lot of users have been asking for. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 579187 says Outlook will remember which folders and shared mailboxes you left expanded or collapsed, and put them back that way the next time you open the app. If you file email...
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    Thunderbird 160 Fixes Wrong IMAP Message Deletion and Microsoft 365 Setup Issues

    Thunderbird 160 is out, and most of it is cleanup. One fix stands out, though. Under some conditions, the IMAP message retention setting deleted the wrong messages, so mail you meant to keep could disappear. If you use Thunderbird on Windows with IMAP retention turned on, or connect it to...
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    AvePoint Expands Microsoft AI Partnership: AgentPulse Governance and Agent 365 Overlap

    AvePoint's expanded Microsoft partnership builds on its work across the Microsoft Cloud. The headline is a familiar one: a vendor and Microsoft say they are "deepening" a relationship. The details that matter to admins are less obvious. They concern where AvePoint's tools overlap with...
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    Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker in Microsoft Copilot: Admin Setup, Work IQ and Data Access

    Customer-experience vendors spent this week arguing that AI should do more than talk. For Microsoft 365 administrators, the Adobe item matters most, because it runs through Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Work IQ and carries a set of tenant-level setup requirements. The broader theme comes from...
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    How to Configure OAuth for Exchange Server to Microsoft 365 Mailbox Migrations

    Microsoft has added OAuth authentication to the Microsoft 365 Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) for migrations between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365. Announced by the Exchange Online Migration Team on November 9, 2026, the feature gives administrators an alternative to supplying the...
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    Classic Outlook for Windows Gets Visual Refresh and Returning What's New Dialog

    Microsoft is giving classic Outlook for Windows a modest visual refresh—and bringing back a feature that explains what has changed. The planned updates cover icons, spacing, and alignment in familiar mail and calendar areas. Alongside them, a returning What’s New dialog will tell users about...
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    Word for Windows Accessibility Assistant Adds Three Heading Checks for Screen Reader Navigation

    Microsoft has added three new heading checks to Word's Accessibility Assistant on Windows. The tool can now catch "headings" that are really just bold or large text, long sections with no heading, and headings that got split across several paragraphs. It's aimed at screen reader users. Writers...
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    Microsoft 365 SMTP Basic Auth Change in December 2026: How to Keep Scan-to-Email Working

    Somewhere in your office there's a multifunction printer with a Microsoft 365 username and password saved in its web admin page. Someone typed them in years ago, and the device has been emailing scans ever since. At the end of December 2026, that setup may stop working. Copier dealer Modern...