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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 Cancels Teams Frontline BYOD Wizard, Retires Preview This August
Microsoft has cancelled its planned Teams frontline bring-your-own-device onboarding wizard just weeks before the feature was set to reach general availability. The decision, quietly posted to the...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot License Justification Field: What IT Admins Need to Do Now
Microsoft has quietly shelved a planned feature that would have let employees explain why they need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license when submitting a request through the admin center. The...
Microsoft Purview’s AI Agent Now Delivers Investigative Narratives, Not Just Isolated Alerts
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant upgrade to its Purview Insider Risk Management service, empowering the built-in Data Security Triage Agent to generate plain-language summaries of...
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....
Microsoft Purview’s File Archiving Feature Arrives September 2026—Here’s What to Expect
Microsoft is preparing to give organizations a new way to handle the growing pile of old documents in OneDrive and SharePoint: a built-in, policy-driven archive button. The company has updated its...
Microsoft Fixes Blocking Update Bug and Overhauls File Explorer in New Experimental Build
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8935 to the Experimental channel on Monday, July 20, delivering a fix for a stubborn update failure — error 0xc0000409 — that had left...
Your Android Phone Is About to Become a Smarter Field Notebook: OneNote’s Multimodal Capture Lands in 2026
Microsoft has confirmed that its multimodal Capture feature in OneNote—already available on iPhones and iPads—will enter public preview on Android in August 2026, with general availability slated...
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...
Microsoft Teams Mobile Gets Multi-Line Calling: How to Use Multiple Business Numbers on One Account
Microsoft has started rolling out multi-line calling support to Teams Phone on Android and iOS, closing a major gap between the mobile and desktop experience that forced road warriors to carry extra...
Teams Events App Now Saves Webinar Setups as Reusable Templates
Microsoft has quietly removed one of the most tedious parts of running webinars and town halls in Teams: rebuilding the entire configuration every time. The company’s Roadmap item 561915, now...
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...