Articles from July 15, 2026
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Your Government Cloud DLP Alerts Are Getting a Power Automate Upgrade in 2026
Microsoft has set a September 2026 target for bringing automated workflow responses to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) incidents in its most locked-down cloud environments. Government Community Cloud...
Microsoft 365 Archive Now Lets You Freeze Individual SharePoint Files to Cut Costs—With Some Strings Attached
Microsoft has quietly rolled out file-level archiving in SharePoint to all worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants. Marked as launched on July 15, 2026, the feature under Roadmap ID 477371 lets...
SharePoint Lists Enter Copilot Agent Builder: One List, 20,000 Items Max
Microsoft has added a long-awaited capability to its Copilot Agent Builder: makers can now ground AI agents in SharePoint list data. The feature, listed as launched on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap under...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Can Now Dig Through Meeting Transcripts to Find That One Conversation You Forgot to Title
Microsoft shipped a quiet but consequential update to Microsoft 365 Copilot: the AI assistant can now search your meetings by what was _discussed_ inside them, not just by the subject line on your...
Copilot Power User Insights Are Coming: What IT Needs to Know About the August 2026 Update
Microsoft is preparing a new Copilot Dashboard feature that shifts the focus from who has a license to who actually uses Copilot daily — and it’s targeting a general release in August 2026. The...
DOD Teams Rooms to Gain Privacy-Focused Shared Display and Peripheral Discovery in August
Microsoft’s product roadmap has confirmed that two long-awaited meeting-room features for Teams—shared display mode and peripheral detection—will become available in Department of Defense (DoD)...
Microsoft Wrings 40% More Speed from Copilot Models While Accelerating Data Center Rollouts
Microsoft has boosted the inference throughput of its most-used Copilot models by 40% through software and hardware optimizations, even as it rushes new GPU-filled data centers into service weeks...
Microsoft Drops a 9.6-Rated Exchange Server Patch—Here’s Your Step-by-Step Urgent Fix Plan
Microsoft shipped security updates for on-premises Exchange Server on July 14, 2026, closing a critical spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2026-55008) that earned a 9.6 CVSS 3.1 rating. The patch bundle...
Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday Fixes CVSS 7.1 AD FS Bug in Windows 11 26H1
Microsoft shipped KB5101649 on July 14, 2026, to close CVE-2026-58529—a high-severity information-disclosure vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services that affects Windows 11 version...
July's Office Security Update: Why CVE-2026-55121's Severity Was Overstated—and What to Do Now
Microsoft released its July 2026 security update for Microsoft Office and SharePoint on Tuesday, and one vulnerability in particular—CVE-2026-55121—quickly became a case study in how quickly a...
July 2026 Patch Tuesday: Urgent Fix for Windows NAT Spoofing Flaw—Update Windows 11 and Server Immediately
Microsoft’s July 14, 2026 security update batch closes a high-severity Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) spoofing vulnerability that could let an attacker on the same network impersonate...
Microsoft Fixes Windows Boot Loader Flaw That Could Weaken Secure Boot Defenses
Microsoft shipped its July 14, 2026 security updates to close a hole in the Windows Boot Loader that could let a well-placed attacker bypass security checks before the operating system loads. The...