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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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    PowerPoint Copilot Can Use Outlook Emails to Create Decks

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 555888 as Launched, confirming that users can reference an email through Work IQ while using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation. The useful operational detail is easy to miss: Microsoft lists general availability as March...
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    PowerPoint Copilot Agent Mode SharePoint References Not Yet Live

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 roadmap says PowerPoint’s Copilot Agent Mode is being expanded so users can reference files stored in SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders while creating a presentation. The item, Roadmap ID 555894, is listed for PowerPoint on the web and worldwide...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout Prompts AFL Staff Resignation

    The Australian Football League’s reported decision to require staff to accept Microsoft Copilot on work systems has exposed a workplace-management problem that Microsoft 365 administrators should take seriously: an AI rollout can preserve existing file permissions and still materially change how...
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    New Outlook Classic Theme Rolls Out August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing a Classic Outlook theme experience for new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, a visual compatibility layer aimed at people moving from the older Win32 desktop client. The change appears in Microsoft 365 Message Center advisory MC1458476, while Windows Report...
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    Microsoft Copilot Ranks Last on Privacy—Consumer, Not 365

    Microsoft Copilot ranked as the most privacy-invasive of 13 popular AI platforms in an Incogni study highlighted by PCMag on August 20, but that result needs an important qualification for Windows and enterprise users: it describes the consumer Copilot experience and Microsoft’s wider consumer...
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    Clifford Chance Launches Permissioned Copilot Knowledge Bank

    Clifford Chance has put more than 400,000 reclassified and AI-summarised legal documents into a new firm-wide Knowledge Bank built on Microsoft 365 and Azure, with a custom permission-aware search layer intended to make the material usable by Microsoft Copilot without exposing confidential...
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    Microsoft 365 AI Risk Is Unmanaged App Permissions

    The most important detail in a new warning about workplace AI is not that employees are using ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot at high rates. It is that they are increasingly connecting AI tools to email, calendars, customer records, internal databases, APIs and financial workflows — often without...
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    SharePoint Pay-As-You-Go Storage Targets November 2026

    Microsoft plans to let Microsoft 365 tenants cover active SharePoint storage above their included quota through a pay-as-you-go meter, replacing the need to pre-purchase Extra File Storage packs for that portion of capacity. Roadmap item 506743 is still listed as In development on August 20...
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    OneDrive Pay-as-You-Go Storage Targets November 2026

    Microsoft has put a new pay-as-you-go OneDrive storage meter on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, giving administrators a way to let selected users exceed their licensed personal-storage quota and charge only for the capacity actually consumed. Roadmap item 562352 now targets general availability in...
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    Viva Glint Adds 500 Survey Choices and CSV Imports

    Microsoft plans to let Viva Glint administrators build multiple-choice and multi-select questions with as many as 500 response options, a large jump aimed at organizations using employee surveys to classify locations, job functions, training topics, benefits, incident types, or other long lists...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork: Usage Billing and Permission Risks

    Microsoft says Copilot Cowork reached 20,000 internal users within three weeks of its release inside the company, a sign that its newest Microsoft 365 agent is being positioned less as a writing assistant and more as a controlled automation layer for everyday work. The claim comes from...
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    Premier League Cyber Rules Require Evidence by April 30, 2027

    Premier League clubs are being put on a formal cybersecurity compliance clock, with mandatory controls, annual evidence submissions and potential fines of up to £100,000 replacing the league’s previous guidance-led approach. The immediate practical change for club IT teams is not a requirement...
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    Outlook Copilot Chat Pop-Out Rolls Out Late August 2026

    Microsoft is changing how Copilot Chat sits inside Outlook for Mac and Outlook for iPad, letting eligible users pop the chat out into a floating panel rather than keeping it docked in the main interface. The feature is enabled by default and Microsoft now says its worldwide rollout will begin in...
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    Microsoft 365 Business Mailboxes Gain 100 GB Primary Storage

    Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium users are being moved from a 50 GB to a 100 GB primary Exchange Online mailbox entitlement, but administrators should treat the rollout as a licensing change to verify—not a blanket quota increase that can be assumed to have...
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    Copilot Studio Plans Evaluation Traces and Test Generation

    Microsoft says it plans to bring richer explanations, reasoning traces, cited knowledge sources, larger test datasets and configurable test generation to Copilot Studio agent evaluations in September 2026, giving makers more evidence to diagnose why an agent passed or failed a test rather than...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Moves to Word, Excel, PowerPoint Canvas

    Microsoft 365’s Copilot button has moved from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ribbon into the document canvas, where it now appears as a floating Copilot Dynamic Action Button in the lower-right corner. The change is already rolling out worldwide for eligible users on Windows, Mac, the web, and...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Plans Inline Code Blocks for September

    Microsoft is planning to add inline Code Blocks to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in September 2026, moving previews of generated code, charts, diagrams, and similar structured output from a separate code canvas into the conversation itself. Roadmap item 569429 is marked In development, which means...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents Gain Work IQ API Access

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 559019 as Launched, bringing programmatic access to first-party and tenant-defined declarative agents through its Work IQ APIs. The change means a custom application can invoke a specialized Microsoft 365 Copilot agent as part of a broader...
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    Exclaimer MSP Connect Launches Global Usage-Based Billing

    Exclaimer has launched MSP Connect, a partner programme and management layer aimed at managed service providers that sell and administer email-signature services across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace customer tenants. The practical change is less about a new signature editor than about the...
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    Teams Organizer Transfer May Leave Meetings Under Old Owner

    Microsoft Teams is slated to add a one-action notification pause in September 2026, while Microsoft 365 is also preparing a user-facing way to transfer meeting organizers. The second change is the one administrators should watch most closely: Microsoft’s existing Exchange Online transfer tool...
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