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

By João Ferreira 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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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): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Submit agent to Agent Store from Agent Builder

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] IT Admins will be able to enable Anthropic models by specific users and groups in the tenant

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Local file support for Agent Mode in Excel

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Ground Chat in SharePoint Lists using Context IQ

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Enable customers to book appointments from a live chat widget on your website

Microsoft Teams: Resizable Gallery in Teams Meetings

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced issue detection in Teams Rooms on Windows and auto-remediation with Teams Rooms Pro Management.

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams: Retirement of the Microsoft Teams app from the Amazon Appstore

Follow‑up on Required Custom Domain Configuration for Teams Event Email Templates

Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list

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

New device settings experience in Teams on the web

Microsoft Teams on Windows: Annotate content while sharing a single window

Microsoft Teams: Upcoming changes to Microsoft Places licensing and feature access

Microsoft Teams: Reduced automatic updates in Meet Now channel meeting threads

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Survey Designer Role

Microsoft Viva: Dynamic topics and keywords

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot adoption PBI version update including Power user insights

Microsoft Purview

DLP policies will be able to block Copilot processing of sensitivity‑labeled files in all storage locations

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – File Testing Against Sensitive Information Classifiers

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – AI analysis enhancements

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and Label Policy Configurations

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management- Azure PST Import

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to Data Security Triage Agent

Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Adaptive scopes for DLP for SharePoint

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Logged-in user details on the Purview device onboarding page

Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and label policy configurations

Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – File Testing Against Sensitive Information Classifiers

Outlook

Outlook: Improved results when filtering your message list

Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) – March 31, 2026

Outlook: Improved results when filtering your message list

Outlook: Share Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files via the new Outlook for Windows

Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Quality Evaluation Agent for Bulk Case Evaluation

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Drive confident engagement with enhanced consent‑based segmentation

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 quarantine content read permission update

Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Coming soon to organizations: Customize the Start menu with updated policies

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot – Billing and usage – Standalone consumption of prepaid capacity pack credits

Search feedback experience update: Legacy Search

Personalize your Message center feed

Tenant Default Change – Workspace Admins Will Be Allowed to Enable Monitoring

SharePoint

SharePoint: New SharePoint Experience

OneDrive

OneDrive: Set a custom name for the OneDrive sync folder

OneNote

OneNote for iOS: Introducing automatic local backups

Power Apps

Power Apps – Explore and visualize data with data exploration agent

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Guided Table Selection for First‑Time Dataverse Sync

Windows

Plan for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB end of support