Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 15)

By João Ferreira Apr 14, 2026 Pulse 0 Comments

I’ve mentioned this here more than once, but it never gets old. I genuinely enjoy seeing Microsoft ship small, practical tweaks that remove daily friction. This week’s highlights fall squarely into that category and they’re all about Microsoft Teams.

Testing your microphone before joining a meeting is finally moving to where it belongs: the join screen. Stop joining a meeting in silence because the wrong mic was selected. This matters even more if, like me, you constantly switch between headsets, webcams, or room devices.

Search is also getting a subtle but welcome upgrade. As you type, Teams now suggests clearer and more recognizable results People, channels, and different types of chats surfaced earlier and with less guesswork.

And lastly, book rooms directly from a Teams Room panel. No laptop, no detour. If you’re walking past the room, just book it on the wall ahead of time and move on.

As always, there’s a bunch more to explore — check out the full list below. Let me know in the comments what your favorite update was this week, or what you’re hoping to see next. I’m curious to hear what caught your eye!

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SharePoint

SharePoint: Create charts on pages with AI

SharePoint Advanced Management: Delegate management of Restricted Access Control (RAC) to site admins

Dynamics 365 Contact Center

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use Admin Agent to simplify setup tasks in contact center

Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Protect sensitive information in emails with data sensitivity labels

Microsoft 365 Apps

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Upcoming change: Microsoft 365 Apps SAEC and MEC will unify

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updated Copilot Notebooks overview page experience

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks in the OneNote mobile app (iOS)

Simplifying agent management with Agent 365

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find meetings based on topics and keywords

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from Scanned PDFs and from text inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Information regarding the end of support for classic agent creation in Teams

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Enable makers to create Dataverse AI prompt columns

Microsoft Dataverse – Review existing application users to ensure each has an email address

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Upcoming retirement of older Microsoft Defender for Endpoint mobile app versions (iOS and Android)

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhancing how we handle promotional mail

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra: Passkeys in registration campaigns update

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- IRM alerts in XDR

Microsoft Purview | Data Security Posture Management for AI Fabric integration in data risk assessment

Microsoft Whiteboard content is now viewable in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Microsoft Purview: DLP diagnostics enabled for all roles with DLP policy access

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – review set limit increase

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Sensitivity label inheritance for Teams meeting artifacts

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Multi‑camera view support for GCC-H and DoD in Teams Rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams: Multi-stream IntelliFrame support for GCC-H and DoD in Teams Rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams: Entra passwordless resource account support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Microsoft Teams: Test your microphone before you join

Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention

Microsoft Teams: Smarter auto suggestions to help you search faster

Microsoft Teams: Quick access to read items while using unread only mode

Microsoft Teams: AI meeting recap without transcript to meet compliance policies

Microsoft Teams: Book future meetings from Microsoft Teams panels (Android)

Queues app on Microsoft Teams mobile

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Unlocking Deeper Copilot Insights with Enhanced Power BI Filtering

Microsoft Viva: New Overview experience and agent categories in Agent Dashboard

Viva Engage: Feature conversations to all network members

Engage events: Broadcast, meetings, and custom events with moderated feed and anonymous posting on web and mobile

Outlook

Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy Tips & Override in Outlook for Mac

Outlook: Copilot Search Suggestions for Outlook

Outlook: Upgraded Video and Audio Player for iOS

Complete retirement of the Outlook Lite app

Outlook: Work week view for Outlook iOS and iPad

Outlook: Keep Invitations After Responding in Outlook Mobile

Power Apps

Power Apps – Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available in model-driven apps

Power Apps – Tenant-Level Microsoft 365 Copilot Settings to Enable Dataverse Data Access Announcement

PowerPoint

PowerPoint: Create and Edit images with the model of your choice

Windows

Extended Security Updates (ESU) available for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016

ESR management is moving to Windows Backup for Organizations

Windows Deployment Services (WDS): Hands-free deployment hardening (Phase 2)

Windows Office Hours: April 16, 2026

Broader Windows Autopatch availability to Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC)

Hardening administrative actions: Windows imaging, cloning, and auth workflows