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The SharePoint tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's document management and collaboration platform, with a focus on recent roadmap changes and admin-facing features. Discussions include Copilot Chat's improved search for scanned PDFs and images stored in SharePoint, Purview Data Loss Prevention email actions for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, and new PDF comment page anchors. Other topics cover item-level permission reports for Everyone and Everyone except external users groups, Viva Connections multi-home site management moving to the SharePoint admin center, and OneDrive desktop path length fixes. The tag is useful for IT professionals tracking Microsoft 365 updates, security controls, and SharePoint administration changes.
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    SharePoint Brand Center Setup Drops Public CDN Requirement

    Microsoft plans to remove one of the more consequential prerequisites from SharePoint Brand Center setup: starting in October 2026, administrators will be able to create a Brand Center without first enabling the tenant-wide Public CDN. Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 571391, published September 17...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Uses SharePoint Metadata in Scoped Queries

    Microsoft has marked Roadmap ID 516044 as Launched, meaning Microsoft 365 Copilot can now use SharePoint column metadata when a user scopes a prompt to a document library or folder by attaching it or supplying its URL. The change targets a familiar failure mode in document-heavy tenants: Copilot...
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    Microsoft 365 Publisher Access Ends October 1, 2026

    Seton Hall’s September Microsoft 365 retirement notice correctly flags a crowded run of changes before October 16, but two deadline details need correction before organizations turn the warning into an action plan. Microsoft Publisher will disappear from Microsoft 365 subscriptions on October 1...
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    Power Automate Document Generation GA Due October 2026

    Microsoft’s planned Generate document from form (Preview) action gives Power Automate a native way to turn structured SharePoint inputs into completed Word or PDF documents, then save the output back to a SharePoint library. The practical attraction is obvious for IT teams supporting repetitive...
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    Goldie Shows How AI Can Tame Workplace Software Sprawl

    The Salvation Army Australia’s Goldie offers a useful case study in what workplace AI can do when it is aimed at a narrow, persistent problem: employees losing time trying to find the right system, policy or support path. The reported results are promising, but the more important lesson is not...
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    MHCLG’s Content Team Targets Internal Information Sprawl

    The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has created a Content Improvement Team to tackle a problem familiar to almost anyone who works in a large Microsoft-heavy organisation: information may exist somewhere, but finding the current, authoritative and usable version can be much...
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    Purview Plans Last-Access Retention for OneDrive Files

    Microsoft Purview is expected to gain a consequential new retention trigger for files in OneDrive and SharePoint: whether a file has gone unaccessed for a specified period. If delivered as currently announced, the option would let administrators apply a retention policy or retention label based...
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    Teams Backup Reality: Recovery Limits and What to Do

    Microsoft Teams has recovery features, but they do not currently add up to a native, point-in-time backup service for the conversations and collaborative context that live in Teams. That distinction becomes critical after a deleted channel, a compromised account, a bulk cleanup, or an accidental...
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    Microsoft 365 File Archiving: What SharePoint Admins Need

    Microsoft 365 Archive’s file-level archiving gives SharePoint administrators a more granular choice than archiving an entire site: selected files—and, in some cases, folders—can be moved to a colder storage tier without removing the organization’s compliance controls. That makes it potentially...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot August 2026: What Actually Shipped

    Microsoft’s August 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot recap describes a broad set of changes, but it should not be read as a list of features every user can immediately use. The most consequential distinction is deployment status: some capabilities rolled out during August, others entered public preview...
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    Microsoft Copilot Pages: What It Means for M365 Teams

    Copilot Pages changes the useful life of a Copilot answer. Instead of leaving a generated response trapped in a chat thread—or forcing a worker to manually copy it into a separate document—the feature can turn that response into an editable, persistent page beside the conversation. That modest...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Agents Read Scanned SharePoint PDFs

    Microsoft says newly created Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents can now ground their answers in scanned PDFs and image-based documents referenced from SharePoint, removing a long-standing blind spot for organizations whose operational records were digitized as images rather than created as...
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    PowerPoint Agent Mode: Mac File References Still Unconfirmed

    Microsoft has added a new PowerPoint Agent Mode roadmap item saying Mac users will be able to use files stored in SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders as reference material when generating a presentation. But the entry, Roadmap ID 555897, is not evidence that the capability has...
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    PowerPoint Copilot Folder References Still In Development

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap says PowerPoint’s Copilot Agent Mode will be able to use SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folders as reference sources when it creates a presentation, replacing a narrower file-by-file workflow for users preparing decks from a body of organizational...
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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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    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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    Copilot Chat Improves Search for Scanned PDFs and Images

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is being positioned to retrieve text from scanned PDFs and from images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files—a useful expansion for organizations whose records are full of screenshots, photographed whiteboards, and legacy paper documents. But the practical...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Email Actions Still Listed as Preview

    Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention notifications can now put remediation controls inside an end user’s email for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, letting recipients remove sharing links, delete a file, apply a label, request an override, or report a false positive without first...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Email Actions Remain Preview Despite Launch — Megathread

    Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention notifications can now put remediation controls into an employee’s mailbox for OneDrive and SharePoint policy matches, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 527831. The change matters because a DLP event that previously sent a user back into the file’s...
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    OneDrive and SharePoint PDF Comments Get Page Anchors in October

    Microsoft plans to add anchored comments to the PDF viewer used by OneDrive and SharePoint on the web, giving reviewers a way to attach a discussion to a precise location on a page or to a selected passage of text. The feature is listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 569020, remains “In...