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

By João Ferreira 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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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 Teams

Microsoft Teams: Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for GCC-H environments

Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for simpler meeting passcodes (numeric‑only)

Microsoft Teams: Backup RTMP Support for Teams town halls

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams: Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Support for Teams town halls

Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering

Microsoft Teams: Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience.

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings

Teams on the web – Browser Update Required by May 15, 2026

Microsoft Teams: Consecutive mode for Interpreter

Microsoft Teams: Context preservation in Teams

Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for simpler meeting passcodes (numeric‑only)

Microsoft Teams: Book future meetings directly from Teams panels

Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Custom instructions for Copilot ask a question

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Performance improvements to adjustments for project accountants

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Enhancing verbatim responses for Copilot ask a question

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Modern architecture for existing legal entities with additional transactions support

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Enable expense delegates to create cash advance requests

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Calculate revenue recognition for stand-alone selling price contract lines

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Set a custom voice for voice agents

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Support for line discounts and fees in resource-based deployments

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Public preview of the corrections for intercompany project transactions feature

SharePoint

Updated Filter Pane in SharePoint Document Libraries and Lists

SharePoint Pages: Retirement of Web Search (Bing) image pivot

SharePoint Designer 2013 reaches end of support on July 14, 2026

Microsoft Forms

Introducing Surveys Agent and Copilot Chat in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create presentations with Work IQ using Agent Mode in Copilot in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create presentations with Work IQ using Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create executive summary slides with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create executive summary slides with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Infinite Scroll Chat History

Outlook

Context IQ retirement in the new Outlook and Outlook on the web

Outlook for Windows report retirement in the Exchange admin center

Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile

Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile

Viva Engage

Retirement of “Include attachments” and “Include external networks” options for data export in Viva Engage Admin Center

Microsoft 365 Apps

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

Microsoft 365 apps for Mac suite installer now includes the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Windows

Secure Boot certificate updates: actions required ahead of June 2026 expiration

The February 2026 Windows security update is now available

Windows 11, version 26H1 coming to select new devices in early 2026

Windows Office Hours: February 19, 2026

OneDrive

OneDrive: Microsoft 365 Copilot in OneDrive

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enable DLP Diagnostics for All Roles with Purview DLP Policy Access

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to preview content in Insider Risk Management Alerts

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot processing content with sensitivity labels supports all storage locations

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge: Cross Tenant Support using Intune MAM

Microsoft Edge: Improvements to site permissions user interfaces

Microsoft Edge: Validate Edge builds early with enterprise preview

PowerPoint

Update PowerPoint to maintain Captions

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales – Engage prospects faster with Sales Agent-enriched leads

Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot – Billing & usage: High-usage users

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updated handling of entity inserts in the Copilot Chat input box

Microsoft Intune

What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for January 2026

Microsoft Intune In Development for February 2026 is now available