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

By João Ferreira 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.

Last week was a busy one. I published every single day, wrapping up this year’s blog post marathon. This week, I’m picking up two threads I left open: my personal journey with SharePoint, and a proper recap of the marathon itself, a single place where you can see all the posts, end to end, without the noise.

As we start a new month, it also felt like the right time to step back and look at the bigger picture. Alongside the marathon posts, you’ll find my roundups of everything that happened across Microsoft 365 in February, including SharePoint, Teams, Copilot, and Microsoft Viva. If you’re trying to keep up without chasing every single announcement, those posts are waiting for you.

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!

Advanced Hunting

Advanced Hunting: new actions to block attachments and top-level URL domains

Azure Virtual Desktop / Windows 365 / Microsoft Intune

New Secure Boot update resources for Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Microsoft Intune

Dynamics 365 Contact Center

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Customize transfers and consults for queues, representatives

Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Use preview dial for high-value proactive engagements

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use preview dial for high-value proactive engagements

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Leverage rich media messaging across channels

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Run voice outbound campaigns with proactive engagement

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data: Easily select field values when working with segment conditions

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys – Automatic activation of bot protection

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys – Create static segments with up to 200,000 members

Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Support multilingual evaluation criteria

Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Simulate AI field prediction with Case Management Agent

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Record and review full‑screen representative activity

Dynamics 365 Field Service

Dynamics 365 Field Service: Optimize schedules with Scheduling Operations Agent

Dynamics 365 Finance

Dynamics 365 Finance: Deploy preconfigured demo assets for Business performance planning

Dynamics 365 Finance: Explore forecast-to-plan planning scenarios in Power BI

Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Experience phase 4 enhancements for Expense mobile app

Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Enable set-based performance improvements for project adjustments

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Use the simplified Approvals page

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Enable outline level to the tasks in resource assignment view

Dynamics 365 Project Operations – View approvals of different types more clearly by using the enhanced UI

Dynamics 365 Sales

Dynamics 365 Sales: Connect Fabric Lakehouse data to AI‑powered sales research

Dynamics 365 Sales: Improve opportunity context with AI-based data enrichment

Dynamics 365 Sales: Get sales operations insights in Sales Research Agent

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Automate production reporting with electronic sensors

Governance and administration

Governance and administration: Discover and foster Power Platform adoption with the new Usage page

Microsoft 365 Apps

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing infinite scroll for chat history

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turn Copilot Pages into SharePoint News posts

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Audio recap language expansion in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales: Use Sales agent in Outlook mobile

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Branded footer in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document by default in Word

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Share agents to Teams

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Videos in the Clipchamp Start Page

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio: Group files with instructions to guide agent answers

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Create Inputs from Existing Conversations

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Standardize security role and system application docs

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing a new URL click alert in Teams via Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Localized Default Mark and Notify Email Template

Defender for Office 365 URL click alerts now include Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge: Auto-open Copilot side pane for Outlook links

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Data Security Triage Agent in IRM Enhancements

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Pay-as-you-go model for Other Generative AI apps indicators

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery- CMK (Customer managed key) for eDiscovery direct export

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Configuration change for PowerShell cmdlet case and search synchronization changes

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – AI analysis enhancements

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Data Loss Prevention to safeguard sensitive web search in Microsoft 356 Copilot and Copilot Chat

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- New policy configuration options available for inline network and Edge for Business policies

Microsoft Sustainability Manager

Microsoft Sustainability Manager: Ensure GRI compliance with latest template updates

Microsoft Sustainability Manager: Streamline ESG data collection with approvals

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent Updates

Microsoft Teams: Building level insights on the Pro Management portal recommended actions page

Microsoft Teams: Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android

Microsoft Teams: Flexible layout for meetings with resizable divider

Microsoft Teams: Centralized notification settings for channels

Microsoft Teams: Code block line numbers and improved keyboard accessibility

Microsoft Teams: Multiple phone number assignment to a single user

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Measure Copilot sentiment to change manage and scale Copilot adoption

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Capture targeted Copilot sentiment from power and novice users

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Remove bulk users from closed survey

Outlook

Outlook: Delimiter setting admin policy

Updates to filtered message viewing in Outlook for iOS and Android

Outlook: One-step folder sharing

Outlook: Delimiter setting admin policy

Collaborate with Copilot in Outlook while drafting email

Power Apps

Power Apps: Supervise autonomous agents with agent feed

Power Apps: Enable push notifications in custom branded apps

Power Apps: Configure offline profile using FetchXML editor

Power Automate

Power Automate: Create and edit expressions with Copilot

Power Automate: Create and visualize custom KPIs in Process Intelligence Studio

Power Automate: Analyze your processes in Process Intelligence Studio

Power Automate: Export object-centric process mining data to Microsoft Fabric semantic model

Power Automate: Use Power Platform environment variables in desktop flows

Power Automate: Enable version control for desktop flows

Power Automate: Configure Entra hybrid join for hosted machine groups

Power Automate: Get support for normalized schema import for data ingestion

Power Automate: Retiring the Impala connector

Power Pages

Power Pages: Build Power Pages sites faster with AI coding tools

Power Platform

Power Platform – Information regarding removal of field-level value changes in audit events sent to Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

SharePoint: Backend migration for Weather, World Clock, and Events web parts

SharePoint: New SharePoint Home site experience

Introducing the new SharePoint experience

SharePoint page template gallery improvements and new templates

Windows

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

Windows first sign-in restore experience now available

Windows Server

Windows Server Secure Boot playbook for certificates expiring in 2026

Workspace

Workspace IP Firewall rules (Public Preview)

Word / PowerPoint (Copilot)

Copilot entry point changes in Word and handoff to Agent in chat

Create a presentation and add a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint moving to Agent Mode in the Copilot chat pane