Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 11)

By Mar 17, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

This week’s Pulse looks a little different. Microsoft wrapped up the second SharePoint Hackathon, and instead of just watching from the sidelines, I decided to participate. This time with my wife. She is a former Microsoft employee and now a Copilot Microsoft MVP, so yes, we genuinely live and breathe Microsoft at home.

We joined forces to push the boundaries of what SharePoint can do using mostly out of the box capabilities. If you remember the days when the goal was to make SharePoint not look like SharePoint, this one is for you. If you want to catch up on the latest SharePoint updates and see where the platform is heading, take a look and let us know what you think.

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Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 10)

By Mar 10, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 had a slow start to the year. January and February felt unusually quiet. March changed that completely. With the Copilot Wave 3 announcements made yesterday, it is clear Microsoft has shifted gears. The pace picked up fast, and the scope of what was announced signals another major change in how we work.

Agents are at the center of that shift. This is no longer about experimentation or shiny demos. They are reaching a level of maturity where they become genuinely useful, dependable, and close to everyday work. More support than feature. More right arm than assistant. That is why my highlights this week focus on two updates that really matter: Anthropic Claude Sonnet now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Agent 365 now generally available, finally giving admins a place to set boundaries and control in this new agent-driven world.

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Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 9)

By Mar 2, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

Today, SharePoint turns 25. I couldn’t let this moment pass without sharing what the platform has meant to my own career, and how deeply it shaped the way I work, write, and share what I learn with all of you.

February is already in the rear‑view mirror, which means one thing: another February blog post marathon is done. This year, that resulted in 28 new posts, published one per day, covering everything from SharePoint and Microsoft Teams to Lists, Copilot, and Microsoft Places. Places deserves a special mention, it’s an area I hadn’t really explored on the blog before, and February gave me the excuse to finally change that.

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What’s new for Copilot – February 2026

By Mar 2, 2026 Copilot 0 Comments

After a relatively quiet month, Copilot is back in full swing. February brought updates across almost every Microsoft 365 app, and the pace feels familiar again.

As in previous roundups, I’m focusing on the smaller changes that actually make a difference. One of them is the ability to turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint news posts, making it easier to take AI‑generated content, refine it, and publish it where it belongs. Another is the unification of grounding tools and sources under a single plus menu in Copilot Chat, a subtle change that reduces friction for everyday use.

On the admin side, branding Copilot helps reinforce that users are working inside a trusted organizational space. There’s more to cover this month, but these updates already show how Copilot is quietly becoming easier, clearer, and more practical to use.

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February 2026 Marathon – 28 Days, 28 Blog Posts

By Mar 1, 2026 Microsoft 365 0 Comments

After a year without the tradition, I decided to bring it back. Twenty-eight blog posts in twenty-eight days, one every single day of February, covering Microsoft 365 across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Lists, Copilot, and this year with quite a few posts about Microsoft Places too.

I’ve done this challenge before, but this one was the hardest to finish. Not because I didn’t have enough to write about, I still have a backlog of over 100 post ideas sitting in a list waiting, but two things made pushing through genuinely tough this time.

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Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 8)

By Feb 23, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

The past week brought two SharePoint updates that are worth paying attention to. The first is the arrival of Ground Chat in SharePoint Lists, powered by Context IQ, which starts to change how people interact with structured data inside Microsoft 365. The second is the announcement of a new SharePoint experience, timed neatly with the product’s 25th anniversary and clearly signalling where Microsoft wants the platform to go next.

On a more personal note, the blog post marathon got tougher toward the end of last week. I was sick, keeping up with the daily publishing cadence took more effort than expected, and promotion fell by the wayside. The posts still went out, just a little more quietly than usual. If you’ve been following the marathon, below is everything I’ve published since the last Microsoft 365 Pulse update. I hope you find something useful in there.

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Microsoft 365 profile cards now support user information from third party systems

By Feb 19, 2026 Microsoft 365 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 profile cards are one of the most consistently used surfaces across the platform. They appear in Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Search, and Copilot. Despite that reach, the information shown has historically been limited to a small set of identity‑centric attributes.

Microsoft has now expanded this model. Organizations can surface additional user information on profile cards and populate that data not only from Microsoft Entra ID, but also from third‑party systems, most commonly HR platforms.

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Microsoft Places Finder in Outlook: what it replaces and how to enable it

By Feb 17, 2026 Microsoft Places 0 Comments

Finding a meeting room in Outlook has long meant using Room Finder: a flat list of resources with little sense of where those rooms actually are. It did the job, but it treated space as an abstract concept, disconnected from buildings, floors, and the way people move through an office. That model worked when offices were static.

Microsoft Places Finder replaces Room Finder in Outlook. It relies on the same Exchange room and workspace data, but changes how that data is surfaced. Instead of starting with a room list, users navigate by place: country, city, building, floor.

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Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 7)

By Feb 16, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

For the second week in a row, Microsoft Teams leads the pack with the most updates in Microsoft 365. Among all the announcements, I’m particularly excited about the Simplified Teams app bar that promises a cleaner and more focused experience.

The past week also brought a red flag alert: SharePoint Designer 2013 will no longer work after July 14, 2026. If you haven’t migrated your workflows yet, now is the time to do it!

I’ve passed the halfway point of my February blog post marathon! This week, I’m sharing a selection of the 4 articles I published last week. You can follow all the updates on my blog, where I guarantee to publish something new every day until the end of the month.

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Microsoft Places roadmap highlights announced at ISE

By Feb 13, 2026 Microsoft Places 0 Comments

At ISE, Microsoft shared several updates and upcoming capabilities for Microsoft Places, alongside a clearer outline of what is expected to land over the next six to nine months. The announcements focused primarily on reservation experiences, workplace presence, spatial data, and extensibility, rather than introducing a single flagship feature.

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João Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.

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