🟢 Just shipped🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsGA 2026-09-09
Copilot now improves response relevance by learning from a user's previous communications, with those memories private to the user. Rolling out to Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) as well as GCC, GCC High and DoD.
Why it matters: Memory reaches the sovereign clouds in the same wave as commercial, so regulated tenants get the same personalization behaviour and the same user-level data question to answer.
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🟢 Just shipped🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsGA 2026-09-10
Model-driven Answer Cards are now placed dynamically across seven segments - weather, sports, finance, images, video, places and news - for Entra and MSA users on all Copilot surfaces. GA date September CY2026, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: Answer cards change what Copilot returns for everyday queries, so demo scripts and adoption material that show plain text answers need refreshing.
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🟢 Just shipped🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsGA 2026-09-10
The Viva Glint topic assignment pipeline is now powered by Copilot, improving accuracy when categorizing survey comments into topics. Listed as Launched for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: Employee-listening topic models shift under customers who already report on Glint topics, so trend comparisons across the change need a caveat.
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🟢 Just shipped🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsPreview 2026-09-09
Android users can transcribe audio, capture images and type notes in one session, after which Copilot builds a structured Copilot Page saved to a chosen Copilot Notebook. Already GA on OneNote for iPhone and iPad; GA date September CY2026.
Why it matters: Closes the Android gap for field and frontline capture scenarios that until now only worked on iOS.
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🟡 Coming soon🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsPlanned Sep 2026
Users will be able to highlight a sentence, paragraph or table inside a Copilot response and ask Copilot to work only on that selection, with the selection previewed in the prompt before sending.
Why it matters: A cheap precision win for long Copilot answers, and one of the few controls that reduces over-broad follow-up prompts.
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🟡 Coming soon🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsPlanned Oct 2026
Copilot Chat will match search results against text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, such as scanned contracts, screenshots of tables and whiteboard photos. GA date October CY2026, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: Scanned and pasted content stops being invisible to Copilot, which changes what customers should expect grounding to reach.
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🟡 Coming soon🧠 Microsoft 365 Copilot & AppsPlanned Oct 2026
Voice conversation with Copilot about the open document or presentation was updated on September 9, 2026 with a note that the feature will be re-released with changes in October. GA date October CY2026.
Why it matters: This is a re-release after an earlier pull, so treat October as the first date worth planning enablement against.
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🟢 Just shipped🧑💼 Copilot Agents (Built by Microsoft)GA 2026-09-09
Planner Agent chat is rolling out to Basic Plans with natural-language Q&A, smart task discovery and in-plan task management. GA date September CY2026, Targeted Release then Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: Basic Plans are the free Planner tier, so this puts a first-party agent in front of a much wider user base than Premium plans reach.
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🟢 Just shipped🏭 Microsoft FoundryGA 2026-09-09
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 (audio) and the GPT-image-2.5 family (gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and gpt-image-2.5-flare) are available in Microsoft Foundry for applications that listen, speak, generate and edit content in one multimodal session. The model retirement schedule lists both image models at version 2026-09-09 with a 2027-09-09 retirement date. Pricing is $8.00 per 1M image input tokens and $30.00 output for the image models, and $3.00 per hour of audio for GPT-Live-1.
Why it matters: A one-year retirement clock is already on the clock for both image models, so anything built on them needs a version-pinning plan from day one.
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🟢 Just shipped🏭 Microsoft FoundryGA 2026-09-10
LLM Speech 2607 lands with latency up to 3x faster than the 2605 release and phrase lists that now hold 2,000+ entities for more context-aware transcription. The update deploys automatically on the service side with no customer action required, and is available in the Foundry Playground.
Why it matters: Voice agents and meeting-transcription builds get the speed and accuracy gain without a redeploy, but the automatic server-side swap means output can change under existing workloads.
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🟢 Just shipped💬 Microsoft TeamsGA 2026-09-09
Organizers can now use breakout rooms in meetings with up to 1,000 attendees, lifting the previous ceiling for small-group work inside large sessions.
Why it matters: Large training and all-hands formats that previously had to be split across separate meetings can now run breakouts in one session.
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🟢 Just shipped💬 Microsoft TeamsGA 2026-09-09
Teams desk hub devices such as the Yealink Linkhub now let users find and reserve available desks directly from the device. A Teams Shared Space license is required for each device.
Why it matters: The per-device Teams Shared Space license is the cost line to raise early in any hot-desking rollout.
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🟢 Just shipped💬 Microsoft TeamsGA 2026-09-10
Highlighted text when composing messages renders more consistently in dark mode and high contrast mode. GA date September CY2026, rolling out to Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High and DoD.
Why it matters: An accessibility fix that ships to the sovereign clouds in the same wave, which is unusual enough to be worth noting in compliance-sensitive accounts.
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🟡 Coming soon💬 Microsoft TeamsPlanned Nov 2026
Users will be able to attach a Teams meeting to an existing Planner plan instead of the meeting auto-generating its own plan, keeping tasks from a long-running initiative in one place. GA date November CY2026.
Why it matters: Fixes the plan sprawl that shows up wherever recurring meetings are the main collaboration surface for a project.
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🟡 Coming soon💬 Microsoft TeamsPlanned Nov 2026
Teams Rooms on Android will prompt users to rate call and meeting quality and give feedback on calling, video and screen sharing. GA date November CY2026, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: Gives room-estate owners per-room quality signal from actual users rather than telemetry alone.
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🟡 Coming soon💬 Microsoft TeamsPlanned Nov 2026
Teams Rooms on Android will be able to join a breakout room and be moved in and out of the main room. GA date November CY2026, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) and GCC.
Why it matters: Removes a long-standing reason to prefer Windows rooms for training and workshop spaces.
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🟡 Coming soon💬 Microsoft TeamsPlanned Nov 2026
A backend change will let town hall organizers keep attendee invites separate from the event crew invites. GA date November CY2026, Targeted Release then Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC and GCC High.
Why it matters: Stops attendees and production crew sharing one invite thread, which is a recurring complaint in large internal broadcasts.
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🟢 Just shipped📧 Outlook & ExchangeDeprecation 2026-09-10
MC1469960: from October 1, 2026 the final phase of Exchange Web Services retirement requires tenants to maintain a configured EWSAllowedAppIDs list. Microsoft will auto-generate a list from the previous 60 days of observed usage for tenants that have not configured one, and that list may miss infrequently used applications. Rollout begins early October 2026 and completes late June 2027 across Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DoD. Admin-configured lists are never overridden, and changes take up to 24 hours to propagate.
Why it matters: Any customer still running EWS integrations has a hard October 1 deadline to audit 60 days of usage and pin the allowlist, or unlisted apps silently lose access.
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🟢 Just shipped📝 Office AppsGA 2026-09-10
GCC High and DoD customers can now use Excel features run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data on the Data tab. GA date September CY2026, rolling out to GCC High and DoD only.
Why it matters: Closes a visible capability gap for sovereign-cloud customers who until now saw Analyze Data missing from Excel.
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🟢 Just shipped📝 Office AppsGA 2026-09-10
The September 10, 2026 Office for Mac build ships quality and performance improvements across Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, with no new features listed.
Why it matters: A fix-only build, so it is a safe one to let Mac fleets take without change-management overhead.
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🟢 Just shipped🧩 Viva, Loop & other M365 appsGA 2026-09-09
Viva Glint's survey-taking experience gets improved auto-save, streamlined navigation and more user control over question progression. GA September 2026 for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) and GCC.
Why it matters: Survey completion rates are the metric customers watch here, so a smoother taking experience is an easy adoption talking point.
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🟢 Just shipped🧩 Viva, Loop & other M365 appsGA 2026-09-09
Exporting comments to a spreadsheet from the Glint Comments report now includes the topic or topics assigned to each comment. Listed as Launched for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) and GCC.
Why it matters: Makes offline analysis of survey comments viable without re-tagging them by hand.
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🟢 Just shipped🧩 Viva, Loop & other M365 appsGA 2026-09-09
Engage-level admins can set a tenant-wide brand name, large and small logos and a theme colour applied across the Engage web and mobile apps, managed from the new Brand Center in the Viva Engage admin center.
Why it matters: First real tenant branding surface in Engage, and the Brand Center is a new admin location to add to governance documentation.
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🟢 Just shipped🧩 Viva, Loop & other M365 appsDeprecation 2026-09-09
MC1469557: Microsoft retires the standalone Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS and Android on October 16, 2026, after which those apps no longer reach Whiteboard galleries or existing content. Users must move to Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams or the supported web experience. Rollout mid-October 2026 across Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DoD.
Why it matters: This lands two weeks before the October 16 legacy-storage deletion deadline already in flight, so both Whiteboard changes need to be communicated as one message.
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🟡 Coming soon🧩 Viva, Loop & other M365 appsPlanned Sep 2026
A redesigned My Tasks experience brings tasks into a single place for capture, prioritization and focus. GA date September CY2026, Targeted Release then Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant).
Why it matters: My Tasks is the most-visited Planner surface, so a redesign this month is worth a heads-up before users notice it themselves.
microsoft.com