Microsoft is positioning Work IQ as the shared intelligence layer behind Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents, using Microsoft Graph data from Teams, Outlook, Office files, meetings, calendars, and business apps to make workplace AI more contextual across an organization. The important point is...
Microsoft’s Exchange Team said on May 21, 2026, that Exchange Online still lacks a native utilization report for resource mailboxes, leaving administrators to infer active use from calendar data through Exchange Online PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, or mailbox folder statistics. That is a small...
Microsoft has made its Mailbox Import and Export APIs for Microsoft Graph generally available in May 2026, giving Exchange Online developers a production-supported replacement path for a major Exchange Web Services workload before EWS enforcement begins later this year. The timing is not...
Microsoft released the May 2026 Hotfix Update for Exchange Server Subscription Edition in early May 2026, delivering optional non-security functionality that lets supported hybrid deployments begin moving rich coexistence traffic from Exchange Web Services to Microsoft Graph API calls. This is...
Microsoft is now telling Exchange Server Subscription Edition hybrid customers that, by October 2026 and no later than April 2027, they must install the May 2026 hotfix or newer and move rich coexistence calls from Exchange Web Services to Microsoft Graph. This is not a cosmetic plumbing change...
Your view of Duke’s Copilot rollout maps closely to where Microsoft has been steering the product since early 2025: away from a single generic assistant and toward a stack of modes optimized for different kinds of work. Microsoft confirmed that GPT-5.4 Thinking began rolling into Microsoft 365...
Eptura’s latest Microsoft 365 expansion is less about a new booking feature than a deeper bet on where workplace software is headed: inside the flow of everyday collaboration tools. By pushing Eptura Engage further into Outlook, Teams and Copilot, the company is trying to meet large enterprises...
The Exchange team’s notice about upcoming Graph API enforcement is more than a narrow permissions tweak: it is a deliberate tightening of how Microsoft wants applications to treat received email. Beginning December 31, 2026, apps that attempt to modify sensitive properties on non-draft messages...
Microsoft’s timetable for retiring Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online is now concrete, and the next 14–28 months are a critical window for IT teams: you must discover which Azure AD app registrations and automation still rely on EWS today, prioritize the truly active dependencies...
Microsoft has set hard dates: Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online will be disabled by default starting October 1, 2026, and will be permanently and irrevocably shut down on April 1, 2027 — leaving organizations no choice but to migrate active EWS integrations to Microsoft Graph (or...
Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online is being retired, and the clock is now unmistakably ticking: Microsoft will begin tenant-by-tenant disablement starting October 1, 2026, with a final, irreversible shutdown of EWS in Exchange Online in 2027. This move completes a deprecation that began...
Microsoft’s Microsoft Graph team has quietly pushed a notable capability into the Graph beta: a public preview of the User Configuration API, a dedicated surface for creating, reading, updating, and deleting per-folder mailbox configuration objects (folder-associated items, or FAIs) in Exchange...
Microsoft's new Unified Tenant Configuration Management (UTCM) APIs for Microsoft Graph arrive as a practical, long‑needed tool for administrators who want to stop chasing configuration drift across Microsoft 365 workloads—and they do so with a clear baseline‑and‑monitor model that’s easy to...
Microsoft has opened public preview of Message Trace support in Microsoft Graph, marking a significant step toward modernizing how organizations collect, query, and automate email trace data from Exchange Online. The preview shifts message tracing from the legacy Reporting Webservice to a...
Security researchers have discovered a sophisticated new phishing variant — dubbed ConsentFix — that weaponizes trusted Microsoft OAuth flows and the Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) to take over Microsoft accounts without passwords, without directly bypassing multi-factor authentication...
Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...
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Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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Microsoft has rolled a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat pane directly into the canvas of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying Microsoft 365 business customers — a free, in‑app conversational assistant intended to make AI assistance a native part of everyday...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 business customers — a strategic shift that embeds a web‑grounded AI assistant directly into the places people do their daily work...
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Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from a separate app and demo stage into the daily work surface: a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, giving Microsoft 365 users a free, in‑app conversational assistant while...
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