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Microsoft plans to bring custom “My Team” audience targeting to Viva Engage Storyline Announcements in August 2026, letting leaders and delegates choose recipients at posting time by organizational attributes, Microsoft 365 groups, distribution lists, security groups, or named individuals. The...

Microsoft plans to add an August 2026 Teams Facilitator feature that detects unanswered questions during meetings and offers to search the web for an answer across Teams desktop, web, Mac, iOS, and Android clients. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 558341, is still in development...

Microsoft launched support for adding Teams apps—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly to Private Channels for worldwide standard Microsoft 365 tenants in January 2026, with the roadmap item updated on June 24, 2026, for Teams desktop clients on Windows and Mac. The change looks small only...

Microsoft has launched Roadmap ID 558934, a Microsoft 365 Copilot feature that lets users create Word documents from Copilot Notebooks on desktop and web, with preview availability listed for March 2026 and general availability for May 2026 in the worldwide standard multi-tenant cloud. The...

Mizo announced on June 24, 2026, that its AI service desk agents can now resolve more than 15 Microsoft 365 support scenarios end to end for managed service providers, including identity verification through MFA push before sensitive account changes. The claim is narrow enough to sound...

Perplexity launched Computer for Counsel on June 24, 2026, making its enterprise AI agent available to legal teams through Perplexity Enterprise and Max with integrations across Microsoft 365, legal research tools, document systems, contract platforms, and matter-management workflows. The...

Microsoft is considering an Azure-hosted DeepSeek model as a cheaper option for its Copilot Cowork enterprise agent, a June 2026 move that collides with Australia’s government ban on DeepSeek and arrives after repeated Copilot reliability, security, and adoption concerns. The company’s pitch is...

In a practical Outlook test published by Cambridge Network, a trainer used Copilot to find emails, calendar items, recent contacts, and tasks in Microsoft 365, finding that Copilot often beat standard Outlook search but failed badly around To Do and automation. The experiment is small, personal...

Microsoft is resuming automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows PCs running Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, excluding European Economic Area tenants and leaving administrators elsewhere to opt out through Microsoft’s...

Microsoft 365 Business Premium is Microsoft’s SMB bundle for organizations of up to 300 users, combining Office apps, Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, Intune device management, Microsoft Defender security, and identity controls in a per-user subscription sold through Microsoft and partners. It...

Microsoft plans to bring a Microsoft 365 Admin Agent into Microsoft Teams for small and midsize business administrators in August 2026, letting authorized admins add users, assign licenses, and receive setup and security guidance from the Teams desktop app. The feature, listed as Roadmap ID...

Microsoft is again automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows PCs running commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, while excluding European Economic Area tenants and giving administrators an opt-out in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin...

CalendarBridge said on June 23, 2026, that its cross-platform calendar sync and AI scheduling service has passed 100,000 users and 4 million events synced across Microsoft 365, Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars. The milestone is not just a startup vanity metric; it is a signal that calendar...

Microsoft launched extensions monitoring for the Microsoft Edge management service in June 2026, giving admins a web-based view of extensions installed across managed Edge users and a workflow for reviewing user requests for blocked extensions. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...

Microsoft has launched a Microsoft 365 Copilot feature in June 2026 that lets PowerPoint Live attendees select text on a shared slide during a meeting and ask Copilot to explain it, with availability listed for desktop users in the Worldwide standard Microsoft 365 cloud. The feature sounds small...

ITPro has published a Microsoft 365 Email Signature Compliance Checklist for IT professionals, positioning centralized signature governance as a way to reduce legal exposure, security gaps, formatting inconsistency, and operational tickets across organizations that rely on Outlook, Exchange...

Potter County commissioners in Amarillo, Texas, voted unanimously on June 22, 2026, to adopt an AI Appropriate Use Policy that puts the county IT department in charge of approving and implementing artificial intelligence tools for employee use. The vote is a small local-government item with a...

Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index says Hong Kong workers are adopting AI faster than their employers are redesigning work, with 18 percent of local AI users classified as Frontier Professionals and only 19 percent reporting clearly aligned leadership on AI. That is not a story about laggards...

Microsoft is resuming automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows devices with commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The move is not a Windows Update in...

Microsoft unveiled Scout at Build 2026 as an always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365 that can work across Teams, Outlook, calendars, contacts, OneDrive, and SharePoint with enterprise preview access beginning in late 2026 and wider availability planned for 2027. The important shift is not that...