News & Updates
Weekly insights on Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and AI — so your organization stays ahead of the curve.
SharePoint Online Weekly Update — September 28, 2026
A high-severity SharePoint Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-65660) is under active exploitation with a CISA patch deadline landing this week; SPFx 1.24 beta ships Copilot Components with React 18 support; and SharePoint Advanced Management adds an AI governance agent.
Read moreAI & Agentic Weekly Update — September 28, 2026
Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around three destinations — Home, Code, and Autopilot — with Scout officially renamed Autopilot and heading into expanded private preview, while the new Copilot Managed Runtime turns AI-generated apps into governed, hosted software and expanded FinOps controls make Copilot Credits the meter for all agentic work.
Read moreSharePoint Online Weekly Update — September 21, 2026
Microsoft publishes the long-feared retirement timeline for classic publishing sites, classic pages, and custom scripting; Copilot in SharePoint gains personal skills that travel with you plus tenant-specific HTML guidance for AI agents; and SharePoint Syntex quietly becomes SharePoint Premium in the admin center.
Read moreAI & Agentic Weekly Update — September 21, 2026
Copilot Studio's agentic orchestration layer hit general availability with parallel sub-agents and true multi-step chaining, Microsoft's Agent 365 control plane and multi-tenant management gave admins a single place to see and govern every agent, and usage-based billing quietly became the default for new Copilot licenses — this week the agent story shifts decisively from "can you build one" to "can you run and govern a fleet of them."
Read moreSharePoint Online Weekly Update — September 14, 2026
The FAQ web part splits into a plain-Markdown editor and a Copilot-driven authoring experience, Viva Connections multi-home site management moves into the SharePoint admin center, and a new item-level oversharing report gated behind a fresh admin role gives governance teams the file-level visibility they have been asking for.
Read moreAI & Agentic Weekly Update — September 14, 2026
Copilot Cowork's September refresh puts a reasoning-effort slider and real cost visibility in front of every user, Copilot Studio gets human approval gates that finally make autonomous agents safe to turn loose, and Copilot quietly becomes a true multi-model platform — this week is about giving organizations the dials and guardrails to run agents on purpose.
Read moreSharePoint Online Weekly Update — September 7, 2026
Copilot in SharePoint makes reusable skills portable and adds guidance for building SharePoint-safe AI experiences, the new SharePoint experience finishes its no-opt-out general availability rollout this month, and SPFx 1.24 reaches general availability carrying Copilot Apps and a hard Heft migration deadline.
Read moreAI & Agentic Weekly Update — September 7, 2026
Cowork starts nudging users toward delegation with contextual recommendations inside Copilot Chat, Scout's always-on Autopilot closes in on its end-of-September super-app milestone, and Copilot Studio makes wiring in MCP servers a few-click job — this week is about lowering the friction between a prompt and a fully agentic handoff.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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.
Read moreSharePoint 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.
Read moreAI & 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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