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The outlook on the web tag covers Microsoft’s ongoing changes to web-based email and calendar experiences. Recent coverage focuses on the permanent removal of the OWA Light client from eligible on-premises Exchange Server installations, including the need for administrators to inventory users, update documentation, and plan migrations. It also follows new Outlook on the web capabilities, including Copilot’s Highlight and Rewrite drafting assistance, a Calendar account selector for users managing multiple eligible accounts, and a planned “Reply with a Template in Rules” feature. Together, these updates show how Microsoft is retiring legacy web access while adding automation, AI-assisted writing, and account-management features.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Outlook Inbox Rules: Bulk Actions Target November 2026

    Microsoft has put a bulk-management control for Outlook inbox rules on its Microsoft 365 roadmap, promising that users will be able to select several rules and delete, enable, or disable them in one operation. Roadmap item 569430 is marked In development with general availability targeted for...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Exchange August Update Permanently Removes OWA Light

    Microsoft’s August 11 Exchange Server security updates permanently remove the OWA Light client from Exchange Server Subscription Edition and from eligible Exchange Server 2019 and 2016 installations. For administrators, this is not a cosmetic retirement: after the update, users can no longer...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    OWA Light Retires in Exchange Server August 2026

    Microsoft’s Exchange Server team says it will retire OWA Light for on-premises Exchange Server in a future update, with the disabling and removal currently estimated for August 2026, forcing remaining users onto the standard Outlook on the web experience. This is not a consumer Outlook story and...
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    Outlook on the Web Gets Copilot Highlight and Rewrite in July 2026

    Microsoft is rolling out Outlook’s Co-Authoring Highlight and Rewrite feature for Outlook on the web in July 2026 for Worldwide standard multi-tenant customers in General Availability. The feature lets users select part of an email draft and ask Copilot to help rewrite that selected text by...
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    Outlook on the Web Adds “Reply With Template in Rules” (GA Sep 2026)

    Microsoft added Outlook “Reply with a Template in Rules” to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap on July 7, 2026, listing it as an Outlook web feature in development for worldwide General Availability in September 2026. The feature sounds small because it is small; it also lands directly on one of the more...
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    Outlook Calendar Copilot Adds Account Selector to Reduce Multi-Account Confusion

    Microsoft has launched an account selector for the Copilot-enabled side pane in Outlook Calendar on the web, giving users with more than one eligible account a dropdown to see which account Copilot is using and to switch accounts after preview in April 2026 and general availability in May 2026...