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Copilot for Microsoft 365 available for self-service purchase [MC886385]

Self Service purchases are a great way for IT to accelerate and streamline productivity tools for their organization by providing a way for end users to purchase products with their own payment instrument, allowing end users to bring their own products to their company to help enhance their productivity with AI.

Modern Workspace Pro 9 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft PowerPoint: QuickStarter feature retires starting October 2024 [MC884762]

Starting October 8, 2024, and ending December 31, 2024, we will retire the Microsoft PowerPoint QuickStarter feature from Microsoft Office version 2409 for Windows and Microsoft Office version 2410 for Mac. The feature will be unavailable going forward in Office. QuickStarter was never available in PowerPoint for the web.

Modern Workspace Pro 7 September 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

ActiveX will be disabled by default in Microsoft Office 2024 [MC884011]

Starting in new Office 2024, the default configuration setting for ActiveX objects will change from Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions to Disable all controls without notification. This change applies to the Win32 desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

Modern Workspace Pro 6 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement1

Exchange Online

Exchange Properties Limits addition [MC884017]

We're making some changes to allowed size and count of values for various Exchange properties, here are the definition of the limits: Max length: Size of each value Max Count: Total count of values

Modern Workspace Pro 6 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change3

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft 365 admin center will support continuous access evaluation (CAE) [MC884015]

We will enable continuous access evaluation (CAE) of tokens in the Microsoft 365 admin center in September 2024. This feature will proactively terminate active user or admin sessions, or require reauthentication, and enforce tenant policy changes in near real time instead of waiting for an access token to expire.

Modern Workspace Pro 6 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Design ideas in Viva Amplify [MC884007]

Authors editing a section in the Amplify main draft or the Amplify distribution channel for SharePoint will see an icon for Design ideas in the content pane selection. For sections containing the webparts listed later in this message, a red dot will appear in the Design ideas content pane pivot (on the right of the screen) to let you know it has ideas available. Select this pivot to open the Design ideas pane.

Modern Workspace Pro 6 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Trusted Script Enforcement in SharePoint Online: What’s Changing and How to Prepare with SPFx - Proteus on Content Security Policies (CSP) are coming to SharePoint Online and might impact your custom SPFx solutions [MC1193419]12 February 2026
[…] CSP is enforced, these patterns will cause breakages. Microsoft’s SharePoint team confirms that any SPFx solution loading scripts from…
Nana Banana UK AI Image Editor on Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessions [MC1019312]10 February 2026
This collaborative annotation feature sounds like a huge leap forward for real-time screen sharing in Teams. Being able to instantly…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: January 31, 20262 February 2026
It's great to see updates to Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR rolling out across all regions. With cloud security becoming…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: January 23, 202625 January 2026
The combination of Automotive AI and GCP's other services like BigQuery is going to be a powerful toolkit for developers…
AI Music Generator on Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances24 January 2026
It's great that AWS is now supporting the latest Mac hardware for EC2 instances. However, I’m curious about how the…