Articles from July 15, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 15, 2026
Microsoft to Roll Out Copilot Comment Rewriting in Employee Surveys by September 2026
Microsoft is putting an AI-powered editing assistant directly into the hands of employees filling out workplace surveys. A new Copilot feature for Viva Glint will let survey takers rewrite their...
Microsoft Purview to Automatically Propose Copilot Data Retention Rules Starting September 2026
Microsoft 365 administrators will soon get a smarter way to govern AI interactions. Scheduled for preview in August 2026 and general availability in September, a new Purview capability will analyze...
Microsoft Teams to Offer Split Attendance Reporting: Event Analytics Without Meeting Tracking in 2026
Microsoft is set to give Teams administrators granular control over attendance and engagement reporting, decoupling the feature for events like webinars and town halls from ordinary meetings. The...
Agent 365 Dashboard Brings Unified AI Agent Reporting to Copilot Analytics in July 2026 Preview
Microsoft is building a dedicated Agent 365 Dashboard inside Copilot Analytics, giving organizations a single pane of glass to monitor all AI agents registered through Agent 365. The feature, tagged...
Auto Attendant Voicemail Lands in Teams Queues App This August
Microsoft is set to bring a long-awaited convenience to Teams Phone users: starting in August 2026, voicemail messages left for Auto Attendants will appear inside the Teams Queues app, alongside...
Microsoft to Allow Defense and High-Security Teams Users to Disable Auto Do Not Disturb When Sharing
Microsoft plans to give Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) and Department of Defense (DoD) Microsoft Teams users a long-awaited choice: the ability to stop Teams from automatically switching...
Catch Up on Meetings Faster: Microsoft Teams Adds AI Audio Summaries in July 2026
Microsoft will begin rolling out an AI-powered audio recap feature for its Teams Meeting recap app in July 2026, according to a new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. The update aims to help...
Planner Agent Chat Arrives for Microsoft 365 Users in August, but Copilot License Required
Microsoft will bring its AI-powered Planner Agent chat to basic Microsoft Planner plans in August 2026, giving everyday project managers natural-language control over task discovery, creation, and...
Microsoft Teams Live Captions Will Get a Permanent Sidebar and Default-On Switch in August 2026
Microsoft plans to overhaul live captions in Microsoft Teams, introducing a fixed right-side panel and a simplified settings menu that includes a new toggle to turn captions on by default for every...
Microsoft Teams to Open Live Production Controls to External Presenters in 2026
Organizations that outsource live event production—hiring AV crews, agencies, or freelance technicians—have long hit a wall in Microsoft Teams: the person who starts, stops, and controls the...
Microsoft’s Purview Will Soon Flag Sensitive Files and Suggest Retention Rules for SharePoint and OneDrive
Microsoft plans to add a new capability to its Purview compliance platform that automatically surfaces sensitive data sitting in SharePoint and OneDrive, then recommends retention policies to match....
Windows SSTP Vulnerability Exposes VPN Gateways to RCE Attacks: What IT Must Do Now
Microsoft dropped a security advisory on July 14, 2026, that every Windows administrator should read: CVE-2026-50694, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol...