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Excel's AI Agent Mode Will Reach U.S. Government Cloud Tenants in October 2026
Microsoft has added a new item to its Microsoft 365 Roadmap confirming that Agent Mode in Excel—a Copilot feature designed to build and edit entire workbooks—will become available to government...
Goodbye 300-Person Cap: Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms Will Soon Handle 1,000 Attendees
Microsoft is finally addressing one of the biggest pain points for meeting organizers who rely on Teams for large interactive sessions. According to a newly published roadmap entry, breakout rooms...
Microsoft Sets August 2026 Target for Agent 365 Integration in Copilot Chat, Requiring A2A Protocol
Microsoft is readying a pivotal update to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat that will let organizations turn their centrally governed, specialized agents into reusable building blocks for multi-agent...
Millions of Outlook Rules Are Failing Silently—Here’s How to Fix Yours
Outlook rules—those handy little automations that sort, forward, and mark emails—are breaking for users across every version of Microsoft’s email client, from the shiny new Outlook for Windows...
Jaro Education Ranks AI Presentation Tools: Gamma Wins, but PowerPoint Export Fidelity Could Cost You
Business pros and educators hunting for a faster way to build slide decks just got an updated buyer’s guide. On July 17, Jaro Education released its 2026 evaluation of AI presentation tools, and...
ValorC3 Launches Managed Veeam Backup Service for Microsoft 365 and Entra ID with Immutable Storage
ValorC3 Data Centers has taken the wraps off a fully managed backup service that promises to lock down Microsoft 365 and Entra ID data with immutable copies, giving organizations a separate safety...
Microsoft Cancels Teams Copilot Feature That Would Have Analyzed Shared Screens in Recorded Meetings
Microsoft has quietly abandoned a planned expansion of Copilot in Teams that would have let the AI assistant parse the content of desktop screen shares during recorded meetings, according to a...
Cleaner Town Halls Ahead: Microsoft Splits Attendee and Crew Invites in Teams
Microsoft plans to give Teams Town Hall organizers the ability to keep attendee invitations completely separate from those sent to the event crew, according to a new entry on the Microsoft 365...
You'll Soon Share Copilot Chat Sessions with a Link — No More Copy-Paste
Microsoft will add link-based sharing to Microsoft 365 Copilot chats in August 2026, according to a newly published entry on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. The feature, identified as Roadmap ID 562353,...
Microsoft Gives IT Admins Extra Six Months to Replace Exchange Online PowerShell Password Scripts
The cutoff for using stored credentials in Exchange Online automation is moving from July 2026 to December 2026, Microsoft confirmed in an updated Message Center advisory on July 16. The change...
Delivery Giant Evri Puts Microsoft’s New AI Agent Bundle to the Test with 6,000 Users
UK parcel delivery firm Evri will deploy 6,000 Microsoft 365 E7 licenses across its business, making it one of the first large-scale adopters of Microsoft’s recently launched premium suite. The...
OneDrive Pulls Support for Older Windows 10 Versions on August 15, 2026 — What You Need to Know
Microsoft has set a hard deadline for OneDrive sync on Windows 10: starting August 15, 2026, PCs running versions older than 22H2 will no longer be supported. The sync client won’t instantly stop...