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Weekly insights on Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and AI — so your organization stays ahead of the curve.

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SharePoint Online Weekly Update — August 31, 2026

SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 lands with React 18 and an open Copilot Components preview, Viva Connections multi-home management moves into the SharePoint admin center, and governance tightens with a new Data Access Governance permissions report and auto-labeling scaling to 500,000 files a day.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — August 31, 2026

Microsoft folds Chat, coding, Cowork, and Autopilots into one unified Microsoft Copilot "super app"; Copilot Studio's rebuilt agentic orchestrator lands computer-using agents as workflow nodes with big speed and token gains; and the Microsoft 365 Admin agent reaches general availability as Scout's Autopilot preview widens — autonomy is consolidating into a single, governed surface.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — August 24, 2026

Copilot in SharePoint turns lists and spreadsheets into live interactive dashboards and adds one-click page buttons, the SharePoint One-Time Passcode retirement now has a hard October 1 start date, and the new SharePoint experience finishes its preview rollout while SPFx moves toward its 1.23 release.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — August 24, 2026

Copilot Studio's agent-first rebuild reaches general availability, unifying structured workflow steps and reasoning agents on a single canvas; multi-agent orchestration and evaluation APIs move to GA so teams can measure autonomous work at scale; and multi-tenant agent management plus Agent Store submission put a real governance perimeter around the growing agent estate.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — August 17, 2026

SharePoint lists are becoming a native knowledge source for Copilot Studio agents, the Surveys agent retires at the end of the month with survey creation moving into Forms, and the new SharePoint experience and its Data Access Governance permissions report reshape how admins reason about who can see what.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — August 17, 2026

Agent 365 agents can now be wired together as connected agents inside Copilot Chat, turning the A2A protocol into a first-class enterprise primitive; Microsoft Defender extends posture risk and runtime protection across the whole agent estate; and computer-using agents reach enterprise-grade credential handling and multi-model choice.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — August 10, 2026

Copilot in SharePoint's August update turns lists into live dashboards and adds one-click page buttons, a wave of August roadmap items brings Markdown co-authoring and PDF navigation to OneDrive and SharePoint, and admins face two hard mid-month deadlines — Windows 10 sync support ending and a SharePoint Embedded API behavior change.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — August 10, 2026

Copilot Studio opens a run-only sharing preview that finally lets admins hand autonomous agents to end users without giving away the keys; the rebuilt runtime turns agents into long-running workflow nodes; and August's update wave lands GPT-5.6, Markdown support, and live SharePoint dashboards.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — August 3, 2026

The new SharePoint experience reaches general availability with a redesigned app bar and start page, the SharePoint One-Time Passcode retirement slips to October, and home sites get simplified admin controls plus new Announcements and Resources web parts.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — August 3, 2026

Microsoft confirms a single unified Copilot app that folds in GitHub Copilot, Cowork, and Autopilot; Copilot Studio's redesigned workflows designer hits general availability today; and Claude Sonnet 5 joins the model lineup as paid seats cross 30 million.

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SharePoint Online Weekly Update — July 27, 2026

Copilot in SharePoint ships its biggest release yet and turns on by default for licensed users, SharePoint Copilot Apps enter public preview via SPFx 1.24, and two long-signaled retirements — InfoPath Forms Services and classic Alerts — have now landed.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — July 27, 2026

Claude Opus 5 landed across the entire Microsoft 365 Copilot model selector, cementing Copilot as a multi-model platform rather than a single assistant; computer-using agents reached general availability in Copilot Studio with enterprise credential handling; and a redesigned workflows canvas started replacing the old stitched-together automation experience.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — July 20, 2026

SharePoint Copilot Apps enter public preview with SPFx 1.24, the new SharePoint experience finishes its worldwide rollout, and InfoPath Forms Services plus SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 reach end of support.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — July 20, 2026

Agent evaluations went generally available in Copilot Studio, giving teams a real way to test agents before shipping them; the Agent Store opened a governed "Built by your org" submission path; and Microsoft Scout's Frontier rollout made the Autopilot model concrete enough to plan against.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — July 17, 2026

External guests without an Entra B2B account start hitting "access denied," the last SharePoint classic Alerts go dark, and a new Permissions Report lands in the admin center to help admins get ahead of oversharing.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — July 17, 2026

Copilot Studio turns agent-building into reusable parts with agent-to-agent orchestration going GA, Agent 365 license enforcement quietly changed what your security tools block on July 1, and Cowork's July feature drop adds Claude model choice, browser use, and org-wide prompt collections.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — July 6, 2026

Microsoft unveils SharePoint Copilot Apps ahead of a July public preview, a critical SharePoint Server RCE lands on CISA's exploited-vulnerabilities list, and two long-running retirements approach their deadlines.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — July 6, 2026

Microsoft plans to merge every Copilot app into one "Copilot Fusion" experience with a paid AutoPilot agent tier, the Cowork billing deadline officially took effect July 1, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot goes generally available.

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SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Weekly Update — June 30, 2026

A new SharePoint experience is rolling out now, Copilot in SharePoint arrives for licensed users, and two major retirements hit in July. Here's everything you need to know this week.

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AI & Agentic

AI & Agentic Weekly Update — June 30, 2026

Copilot Cowork hits general availability, Microsoft Scout introduces a new category of always-on Autopilot agents, and Copilot Studio gains computer-using agents and a redesigned workflow canvas.

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