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Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Granular Web Control: Admins Can Exclude Specific Sites from Grounding
Microsoft shipped a long-awaited governance tool for Microsoft 365 Copilot that lets administrators block specific websites from shaping AI-generated answers. The domain exclusion feature, listed...
Microsoft Finally Forces Internal SharePoint Links to Expire — What Admins Must Do Now
Microsoft closed a significant governance gap on July 20, 2026, when it officially launched expiration policies for “People in your organization” sharing links across SharePoint and OneDrive....
SharePoint Pages to Get Design Guides and One-Click Conversion for Flexible Sections
Microsoft will roll out a set of authoring improvements for SharePoint Pages in August 2026, including visual column guides, persistent gridlines, and a command to convert existing sections into...
No More Duplicate Installs: Microsoft 365 Will Unify App Deployments Across Teams, Outlook, and Copilot in August 2026
Microsoft is taking a step that many IT administrators have long wished for: a single deployment command that places an approved application or AI agent into Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot...
Microsoft Teams Events Can Now Warn Organizers of a Double-Booked Room Before It's Too Late
Microsoft has quietly slipped a deceptively important scheduling improvement into the Teams Events app: organizers can now see, directly within the event creation workflow, whether the conference...
Teams Events now supports shared and delegated mailboxes: Setup guide and pitfalls
Microsoft has quietly addressed a longstanding scheduling headache for organizations that run executive briefings, customer webinars, and all-hands town halls. As of July 2026, the Teams Events app...
Microsoft's July 2026 Update Breaks Copilot in Classic Outlook, Hides Buttons Elsewhere
On July 8, 2026, Microsoft confirmed a new known issue: users of classic Outlook who have only the basic Copilot Chat license may lose all Copilot entry points after updating to build 20026.20182 or...
OneNote for Windows 10 Is Now Read-Only—Here’s How to Move Your Notebooks to OneDrive
Microsoft quietly ended support for its free OneNote for Windows 10 app on October 14, 2025, and as of mid-2026, the application is locked in read-only mode—you can view old notes but can’t edit...
Grok Add-in Brings AI Editing to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint — Here’s What IT Needs to Do Before Installing
xAI slipped a Grok add-in into the Microsoft Marketplace in mid-June 2026, putting its AI assistant directly inside Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The add-in can read whatever you select, make changes...
Microsoft 365 Business Premium Mailboxes Get 100 GB: Why You Still Need Plan 2 for Some Users
On July 10, 2026, Microsoft began upgrading eligible Business Premium mailboxes to 100 GB, erasing a long-standing differentiator between the small-business plan and enterprise E3/E5 licenses. The...
Microsoft’s New MCP Server Gives AI Assistants Direct Access to 365 Roadmap and Azure Updates
Microsoft has quietly made it possible to ask Copilot, Claude, or any MCP-compatible AI client about the latest Microsoft 365 features and Azure changes—and get an answer drawn straight from the...
Microsoft Moves Copilot Studio Updates to 365 Roadmap: What You Need to Know
On July 2, 2026, Microsoft quietly retired the Release Planner as the go-to source for Copilot Studio updates, shifting all future feature announcements for the platform—and its sibling agents for...