Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 5)

It’s a new month, which means your monthly recap for SharePoint, Copilot, Viva, and Teams is here. Plus, this February I’m diving into another blog post marathon – one post every day! The first two are already live, so if you’re curious about turning your Copilot into autopilot, or what’s new with Microsoft Places, go check them out!

Microsoft Places licensing — what changed and why it matters

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Turn Your Copilot into Autopilot – Automated Prompts on a Repeating Schedule

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What’s new for SharePoint – January 2026

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What’s new for Microsoft Teams – January 2026

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What’s new for Copilot – January 2026

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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – January 2026

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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!

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory – Copilot is now personalized with work data

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Upload Local Files now Support .eml and .msg file types

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box

Open PDFs within Copilot

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image Upload in Copilot Chat for Government Cloud

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Surveys Agent and Copilot Chat in Microsoft Forms

Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot connectors are available for U.S. Department of Defense environment

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Copilot Chat

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Customize Copilot for your organization with Copilot Tuning – public preview

Microsoft 365 Copilot: User-day export for Copilot dashboard metrics in public preview

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Pay-as-you-go consumption for the Copilot Retrieval API

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Create and view Outlook rules

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Researcher agent output formats

Microsoft 365 Apps

Automatic synchronization with device time zone, no client restart required

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365: Enhancements to the room booking experience in the Places app

Microsoft 365: Modernized Access Denied Web Experience

Microsoft 365: New map-based room booking experience in Places Finder

Microsoft 365: New profile cards for buildings, rooms and desks

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Source context based file protection for Endpoint

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Fabric integration in Data Risk Assessment

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery: Tenant level process report

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Glint: Copilot will default to ON and move to VFAM as the single control

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot configuration insights in the Copilot Dashboard Readiness page

Viva Glint: Teams notifications now support user language preferences

Outlook

Outlook mobile: Users can open and send Outlook File Template (OFT) files

Outlook: New search folder types

Outlook: Print calendar events in new Outlook and Teams

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender for Android: End of support for Android 10 devices

SharePoint

SharePoint: Migrate the Maps web part to Azure Maps

SharePoint email customization is now available in Site Lifecycle Management Policies

SharePoint: Dark mode support in SharePoint Admin Center

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge: Navigation management for Progress Web Apps

Microsoft Edge: Extensions monitoring in the Edge management service

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: View code blocks on mobile

Microsoft Teams: New Drafts quick view

Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Teams: Report a suspicious call

Microsoft Teams: People Skills on the profile card expanding to Teams

Power Platform

Power Platform admin center – Power Platform inventory is now Generally Available

Power Pages – Control Power Pages components using client APIs

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Dynamic filtering for Knowledge Sources

Copilot Studio product terms update for Bing query data

Microsoft Planner

Updated feedback experience for Microsoft Planner

Windows

The January 2026 Windows non-security preview update is now available

Exchange Online

Trust DigiCert Global Root G2 certificate authority to avoid Exchange Online email disruption

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune: macOS Custom Compliance

Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Desktop Companion App support for Embedded Mode

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra ID Governance: Azure subscription required to continue using guest governance features


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