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Outlook: Purview DLP Wait-on-Send Support for Mac

Outlook for Mac will support Purview Data Loss Prevention wait-on-send policies, letting organizations require a DLP evaluation before an email is sent and configure how long users wait for that evaluation to complete. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High and DoD.

Why it matters: Closes the Mac gap in wait-on-send DLP, so mixed Windows and Mac estates can apply one pre-send inspection policy.

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Outlook: Purview DLP Wait-on-Send Support for Outlook mobile apps

Outlook for iOS and Android will support Purview DLP wait-on-send policies, with administrator control over how long users wait for policy evaluation. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High and DoD.

Why it matters: Extends pre-send DLP enforcement to mobile, where sensitive mail currently leaves the tenant uninspected.

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Outlook: Purview Data Loss Prevention support for Calendar Events in Outlook mobile apps

Outlook for iOS and Android will apply Purview DLP policies to calendar events, detecting sensitive information in meeting subjects, descriptions and invite content through policy tips, user remediation and enforcement. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High and DoD.

Why it matters: Meeting invites are a common DLP blind spot; this brings calendar content under the same policies as mail on mobile.

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Guide every Copilot-in-30 trial with a personalized 30-day success plan

Copilot Success Planner, free and requiring no sign-in, turns a sponsor's input into a 30-day plan per trial user (Outlook wk1, Teams wk2, Word/Excel/PowerPoint wk3, agents wk4) plus an admin roadmap for the 25-user Copilot in 30 trial.

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Evolved FY27 co-op guidance and Partner Marketing Center Pro resources, backed by Omdia research on multitouch buyer journeys.

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Build AI agents without leaving VS Code, join our 3-part Reactor Series

Free three-part Microsoft Reactor live series starting Aug 25, from hosted agent basics to a deployed multi-agent app built in VS Code with the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit.

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Microsoft Agent Framework .NET 1.19.0

Adds session-persisted chat client routing, Azure Blob Storage session persistence and persistence of hosted agent state in Foundry, plus support for resilient long-running and steerable Foundry hosted agents and an agent-hooks interception contract as a first-class experimental feature. Breaking change: MCP long-running task support migrates to the 2026-07-28 Tasks extension, and snake_case argument names in tool descriptions are fixed.

Why it matters: Teams running .NET agents against Foundry hosted agents should plan the MCP Tasks extension migration before upgrading, since the long-running task contract changes.

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Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams

GitHub Copilot can now be @mentioned inside Teams channels, group chats, meeting chats and 1:1 conversations, where it combines the conversation with repository context to implement a change and open a pull request. The work happens in the Teams thread, so teammates add context and review results in the same place.

Why it matters: Teams becomes a working surface for coding agents, so agent governance conversations now have to cover which repositories a Teams conversation can reach.

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Microsoft Agent Framework - Python 1.15.0

Adds optional A2UI support for agent-generated interfaces with preserved streaming tool-call indices, a MiddlewareFailure fatal signal for function middleware, a process-wide workflow checkpoint registry that supports Cosmos checkpoint state types, and steering, retry and recovery for Foundry hosted agents. Breaking change: OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic-convention support is consolidated into stable and experimental modes with explicit message-event controls.

Why it matters: Teams running Agent Framework agents in production should review the OpenTelemetry consolidation before upgrading, since existing tracing configuration can break.

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Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Retention for Copilot Memory

Retention policies will be configurable for Microsoft 365 Copilot memory, which is stored in a hidden folder in the user's Exchange mailbox, preserving historical versions for security and compliance investigations. Rolling out to Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) on web.

Why it matters: Copilot memory becomes a retainable and reviewable data location, which changes the answer partners give when customers ask where Copilot's persistent user context lives.

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Planner: Capacity view

Planner gains a Capacity view showing a timeline of who is working on what, so overload and open capacity are visible at a glance. Rolling out to Targeted Release and Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) on desktop and web.

Why it matters: Puts a resource-load view inside Planner that customers currently build in Project or Power BI.

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Auto-labeling policy simulation mode in Purview

Before enforcing an auto-labeling policy, admins can run it in simulation mode to identify which items it would label without applying any changes, then review the match results and source distribution to decide whether the policy is ready to enforce.

Why it matters: Label coverage can be validated against real tenant content before enforcement, which removes the main risk in an information-protection rollout.

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Insights tab for auto-labeling policies in Purview

The policy details panel gains an Insights tab with an at-a-glance view of an auto-labeling policy's performance. What it shows differs depending on whether the policy is running in simulation or enforcement mode.

Why it matters: Gives admins per-policy evidence of what a label policy is actually catching, without exporting separate reports.

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Writing Blocks in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot gains Writing blocks, letting users edit drafts, memos and emails inline while working in Chat. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) on desktop and mobile.

Why it matters: Inline editing inside Chat removes the copy-paste round trip out to Word or Outlook, which is the friction users most often cite when they abandon Copilot drafting.

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Self-serve sync connectors

Users will be able to connect their own external sources, such as Jira and Confluence Cloud, to Microsoft 365 Copilot using their own credentials and permissions, syncing only content they already have access to into Copilot Chat and Microsoft Search. Admins keep tenant-level controls for staged rollout, visibility management and connector disablement. Preview is listed for Aug 2026 and GA for Sep 2026, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).

Why it matters: User-owned connectors move Copilot grounding from an admin-only project to something individual teams can set up, so connector governance guidance has to cover it before rollout.

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Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit templates-v4@6.15.2026082002

A new dated build of the v4 template package for the 6.15 Agents Toolkit line was published. The release notes carry no itemized changelog beyond the package identifier.

Why it matters: Template packages supply the scaffolds new agent projects are generated from, so teams pinning a template version should diff this build before adopting it.

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Report a message or an external user for security concern in Gov clouds

Users in Gov clouds will be able to report suspicious messages and external users from within Teams, with the reports surfaced in the Teams admin center for admins to investigate. Listed for GCC only, across Android, desktop, iOS, Mac and web.

Why it matters: End-user reporting adds a phishing and impersonation signal in Teams that GCC tenants do not have today.

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Breakout room support on Teams Rooms on Android

Teams Rooms on Android will be able to be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).

Why it matters: Rooms devices being stuck in the main session is a long-standing blocker for hybrid workshops that depend on breakouts.

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Viva Glint: multiple-choice questions with up to 500 options

Viva Glint administrators will be able to author multiple-choice questions with up to 500 options and upload the options from a CSV file. Questions with more than 50 options get search and filter for survey takers, and reporting supports the expanded option set. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), web.

Why it matters: Large option sets are what org-wide surveys need for fields like location or cost centre, which until now had to be split across several questions.

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Viva Glint: in-product access to feature announcements

Viva Glint service administrators will see a new announcement icon in the product header linking to the Viva Glint Tech Community blog. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), web.

Why it matters: Small, but it puts Glint release news in the admin's workflow instead of behind a separate blog subscription.

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Purview Data Loss Prevention support for calendar events in Outlook for Mac

Outlook for Mac will enforce Microsoft Purview DLP policies on calendar events, detecting sensitive information in meeting subjects, descriptions and invite content with policy tips, user remediation and policy enforcement. Listed for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High and DoD.

Why it matters: Calendar content has been a DLP gap on Mac, so compliance teams could not claim parity between mail and meetings across platforms.

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Dragon Copilot Physician apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace

Partners can publish healthcare AI apps and agents through a dedicated Dragon Copilot Marketplace offer type, surfaced directly inside the Dragon Copilot clinician experience; the release is available in the United States only.

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Improvements to the agent evaluations experience

Copilot Studio agent evaluations gain richer evaluation explanations, agent reasoning traces, cited knowledge sources, and comparative analysis for assessing agent quality.

Why it matters: gives partner teams deeper diagnostics to validate agent quality before rollout.

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Code Blocks in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Chat will preview code, charts, and diagrams inline within the conversation instead of in a side-by-side pane.

Why it matters: makes code and visual outputs easier to read in Copilot Chat for developer and analyst workflows.

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Microsoft Agent Framework .NET 1.18.0

Adds opt-in concurrent tool invocation, Cosmos NoSQL vector memory, and Foundry hosted-session user-identity pass-through, plus a tool-approval loop fix. Breaking change: the isolation key provider is renamed to AgentIsolationKeyProvider.

Why it matters: teams building agents on Agent Framework .NET must update code for the isolation-key rename; new memory and identity pass-through options expand production scenarios.

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Delegated prompt publishing for organization prompts

Admins will be able to delegate publishing of organization prompts to specific users and security groups, who can then create, edit, and delete tenant-level prompts in Prompt Lab. Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).

Why it matters: Lets Copilot admins hand prompt curation to business-unit owners without granting full tenant admin rights, easing prompt governance at scale.

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Federated Copilot Connectors in Microsoft 365 Copilot

MCP-based federated Copilot connectors reach GA in US government clouds (GCC, GCC High, DoD), giving Microsoft 365 Copilot secure real-time access to third-party and line-of-business data through Model Context Protocol, with full admin governance and no indexing. Government-cloud scoped, not yet worldwide.

Why it matters: Extends real-time external-data grounding to regulated public-sector tenants, a key unlock for government customers evaluating Copilot extensibility.

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Report a Security Concern in Meetings

Meeting participants will be able to report suspicious, malicious, or potentially fraudulent activity directly from within a Teams meeting, feeding security threat identification. Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).

Why it matters: Gives end users an in-meeting path to flag social-engineering and impersonation attempts, strengthening Teams meeting security.

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Copilot Agent Kit - August 2026 Update 1

Power CAT Copilot Studio Kit maintenance release fixing the Agent Review Tool setup experience; carries all August 2026 base version features.

Why it matters: Teams using the kit to review and govern Copilot Studio agents get a working setup flow on the latest build.

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Improved capabilities for files with Copilot in OneDrive Web

Copilot file skills in OneDrive Web let users move directly from a file to finished work: analysis, summaries, dashboards, presentations, and collaboration. Preview targeted for August 2026, GA December 2026.

Why it matters: Extends in-context Copilot actions to the OneDrive web surface, a common entry point for partner-managed customer file stores.

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Five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry

Claude models in Foundry now support structured outputs, web search, web fetch, tool search, and an MCP connector (still in beta). For Azure-hosted deployments, Global Standard keeps prompts and completions within Azure and US Data Zone Standard keeps inference within the United States; only usage metadata and content flagged by Anthropic safety systems egresses to Anthropic.

Why it matters: Lets partners build production Claude agents on Foundry without rebuilding search, fetch, MCP, and tool routing, while keeping the Azure data-residency commitment EU and Swiss customers require.

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Temporarily pause all notifications

Teams users will be able to temporarily pause all notifications to reduce interruptions during focused work.

Why it matters: A simple focus control that reduces the need for third-party do-not-disturb workarounds in Teams-heavy deployments.

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Change the organizer of a meeting

Meeting ownership can be transferred to another person, who must accept the transfer. Supported in Outlook for Windows, Outlook web, and the Teams calendar.

Why it matters: Removes a long-standing gap where a departing organizer meant recreating recurring meetings from scratch.

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Planner: private tasks stored in your private plan

Private tasks created in Planner will be stored in the user's private plan and visible only to that user.

Why it matters: Clarifies task privacy boundaries in Planner, useful when advising customers on personal versus shared work management.

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Purview eDiscovery: select a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container as a data source

eDiscovery users will be able to view and select SharePoint Embedded containers, which back Loop, Copilot Pages, and Copilot Notebooks, as a data source. Preview September 2026, GA October 2026.

Why it matters: Closes an eDiscovery gap for Copilot-generated content, which increasingly lives in SharePoint Embedded containers.

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Purview: permissions audit log improvements

Audit logs will add visibility into role and scoped-role access decisions to help troubleshoot access issues.

Why it matters: Gives compliance teams clearer evidence when diagnosing who could access what in Purview.

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Microsoft Copilot app update

Starting August 18, 2026 the Microsoft Copilot web, desktop, and mobile apps get clearer account indicators, a simplified app name and icon, and a URL transition from m365.cloud.microsoft to copilot.cloud.microsoft.

Why it matters: A blocked new domain would break Copilot access on rollout day, so partners should allowlist copilot.cloud.microsoft in customer network and proxy policies before August 18.

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App centric management in Teams Admin Center (DoD)

App centric management arrives in the Teams admin center for DoD: admins set default install behavior for newly published apps and control per-app availability (all users, specific users and groups, or blocked). Existing app permission policies are auto-converted to preserve current availability.

Why it matters: DoD tenants get the granular Teams app governance already available commercially, so partners can plan per-app allow and block policies now.

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App centric management in Teams Admin Center (GCC High)

The same app centric management model comes to GCC High: per-app availability control and default settings for new marketplace apps, with existing permission policies auto-migrated.

Why it matters: GCC High tenants gain per-app install governance in the admin center, closing a gov-cloud gap partners previously handled manually.

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Malicious URL Protection for Teams Chat and Channels (Gov clouds)

Teams will detect and warn users about harmful links shared in chats and channels across government clouds (GCC, GCC High, and DoD, alongside Worldwide).

Why it matters: Native link-safety protection reaches gov-cloud Teams tenants, reducing reliance on add-on tooling for phishing and malware defense in regulated environments.

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Grow your security practice at IT Nation

Microsoft-sponsored session at IT Nation Connect ANZ 2026 on August 27 covering agentic AI and governance frameworks for secure AI adoption.

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Copilot Agent Kit June 2026

The Power CAT Copilot Studio Kit release adds Test Automation Pipeline Automation for agents that require authentication, Agent Insights Hub enhancements (in-feature settings for Advanced Testing and Agent Inventory Actions), and fixes for hard-coded commercial endpoints that failed in GCC tenants.

Why it matters: Gives partner teams governed test-automation and agent-inventory tooling for Copilot Studio, including GCC-compliant flows.

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Microsoft Agent Framework - Python 1.14.0

Adds agent hooks, an OpenAI chat-completion client, the AgentFrameworkWorkflow type, a BackgroundAgentsProvider.release_session() method, and a MagenticOrchestrator manager name; fixes cover table editing, thought signatures, and max-messages handling.

Why it matters: Teams building on Agent Framework get new orchestration and background-agent primitives plus stability fixes in the Python SDK.

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MAI-Image-2 and MAI-Image-2e retire in Foundry

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 and MAI-Image-2e preview image models reach retirement on 2026-08-15 in the Foundry model catalog. Migrate to MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash respectively.

Why it matters: Workloads still calling the MAI-Image-2 preview models must switch to the 2.5 replacements now to avoid breakage.

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Calls popout in the Teams web app

Roadmap item (in development) to keep a call in a simplified popout window that stays on top while multitasking in the browser.

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Events attendance and engagement report policy in Teams

Roadmap item (in development) letting admins grant event organizers access to attendance and engagement reports separately from meeting reports.

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Microsoft Defender protection for AI agents

With a Microsoft Agent 365 license, Microsoft Defender now provides discovery, security posture, threat detection and investigation, and real-time protection for the AI agents in a tenant, including real-time protection for Copilot Studio agents via the connector. In public preview, AI agent runtime protection with Defender for Endpoint adds agent-native event inspection for Codex CLI and the GitHub Copilot app, plus network inspection for Node.js-based agents that expose no vendor event interface.

Why it matters: Partners deploying Agent 365 can now offer customers tenant-wide detection and runtime protection covering both first-party and locally run AI agents.

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Azure Content Understanding: August 2026 updates

The CU 1.0 GA API (2025-11-01) gains broader GPT-5.5 and lower GPT-5 series model support, improved grounding efficiency (about 28% fewer tokens), and a refreshed confidence model. A new CU 2.0 preview (2026-06-01-preview) adds synchronous Read and Layout APIs, semantic chunking, agentic document reasoning, and new building blocks for AI apps and agents on the same GPT-5 series foundation.

Why it matters: Teams building document-processing agents on Foundry get cheaper, better-grounded extraction on the GA path and a preview track for agentic document workflows.

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Identify custom apps that need updates for Teams private and shared channels

Teams admins will see in the Teams admin center which custom apps need updates to work in private and shared channels, to help coordinate those updates.

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Collect information with list form in Workflows

Teams Workflows gains a form that collects the information needed to run the rest of the workflow.

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