Articles from July 6, 2026
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Microsoft Delivers Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer to Reassign Any Meeting or Series
Microsoft is giving Exchange Online administrators a long-awaited tool to fix one of the most stubborn problems in meeting management: the inability to change who owns a meeting without canceling and...
Microsoft automates offboarding for Loop and Copilot Pages to tackle data sprawl
Microsoft has quietly released a new governance feature for the Microsoft 365 app that automates the offboarding of Loop workspaces and Copilot pages, giving IT administrators controls to retain or...
Microsoft Purview On-Demand Scans Promise to Unearth Sensitive Dormant SharePoint Data
Microsoft is building a new capability within its Purview compliance platform that allows administrators to scan every existing file in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information—even if...
Government Tenants Get AI Data Guardrails: Purview to Detect Sensitive Content in AI Prompts by August 2026
Microsoft will bring priority-content filtering to its Risky AI usage policy template in Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management for U.S. government cloud environments starting in August 2026, the...
Microsoft Targets May 2026 for LDAP-Based S/MIME Certificate Lookup in New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft has finally set a timeline for bringing LDAP directory lookups for S/MIME certificates to the new Outlook for Windows, listing general availability for May 2026. The update, which appears...
Microsoft Scraps Scheduled Prompts for Copilot Agents, Leaving Power Users in the Lurch
Microsoft has removed a feature from its Microsoft 365 Roadmap that would have let users schedule recurring prompts for declarative Copilot agents. The change, recorded on July 6, 2026, cancels...
Microsoft Tightens Grip on Employee Sentiment Data with Viva Glint Permissions Overhaul
Microsoft has rolled out a sweeping permissions overhaul for Viva Glint, its employee engagement and survey platform, adding a dedicated Service Administrator role and more granular controls for...
User-Reported Scams Land Directly in Teams Admin Center’s Protection Reports
Microsoft has quietly turned on a security feature that many Teams admins have been waiting for: user-reported suspicious messages from Teams now appear right inside the Teams admin center’s...
Side-by-Side at Last: Teams Opens Message Links in New Windows, Keeps Chats Visible
In July 2026, Microsoft began rolling out an update to the Teams desktop app that lets users open links inside chat and channel messages in a separate window—instead of navigating away from the...
Your Government Tenant Will Soon Show Who's Using Copilot Chat—and Where
On July 6, 2026, Microsoft planted a new flag in the government cloud landscape: an admin center usage report for Copilot Chat is coming to GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants. General availability is...
Microsoft’s July 2026 Outlook Update Adds Long-Awaited Preview Text Control
Microsoft is giving Outlook users direct control over how much email preview text clogs up their message list. The change, posted to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap on July 6, 2026, introduces a simple...
Microsoft Gives Viva Glint a Dedicated Survey Designer Role – What It Means for Your Organization
Microsoft has delivered a new dedicated role for Viva Glint that lets organizations delegate survey creation without handing over full platform control. The Survey Designer role, tied to Microsoft...