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SharePoint eSignature now globally available (excluding China, Indonesia, and Türkiye) [MC1127224]

Message ID: MC1127224 Introduction Microsoft’s native eSignature service for SharePoint enables users to request simple electronic signatures directly from Word and PDF documents stored in SharePoint. This feature ensures documents remain within Microsoft’s trusted boundaries, enhancing security and compliance. This…

Modern Workspace Pro 2 August 2025Admin impact, Plan for change

Exchange Online

Retirement of Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch Cmdlets by End of 2025 [MC1126353]

Message ID: MC1126353 Introduction As part of our ongoing efforts to modernize and streamline audit logging in Exchange Online, we are retiring the Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch cmdlet. Organizations should transition to the Search-UnifiedAuditLogcmdlet for long-term audit log access and compliance.…

Modern Workspace Pro 1 August 2025Plan for change, Retirement, User impact

Microsoft 365 suite

(Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps [MC1096218]

Message ID: MC1096218 (Updated) Updated July 29, 2025, Update: The rollout for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote has been delayed to mid-August. The original timing has been updated in the original message. Additionally, Copilot Chat in the apps will respect…

Modern Workspace Pro 31 July 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, Updated message, User impact

Microsoft 365 apps

External workbook links to blocked file types will be disabled by default [MC1125497]

Message ID: MC1125497 Introduction To enhance workbook security, a new group policy is being introduced to expand File Block Settings to external workbook links. This policy allows administrators to control whether links to blocked file types can be refreshed. If…

Modern Workspace Pro 31 July 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact

Microsoft 365 suite

New Tools feature coming to the Microsoft Copilot Chat prompt box [MC1122153]

Message ID: MC1122153 (Updated) Beginning mid-August 2025, we're introducing a new Tools feature in the Copilot Chat prompt box. Tools acts as a lightweight entry point into high-value, task-specific Copilot features and capabilities directly from the prompt box. By selecting…

Modern Workspace Pro 30 July 2025New feature, Plan for change, User impact

Power BI

Power BI Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning features retiring; transition to Fabric AI services [MC1124567]

Message ID: MC1124567 Introduction We’re retiring Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) features in Power BI. This change supports our investment in Microsoft Fabric, where Auto ML and other AI capabilities will continue to evolve and improve. When…

Modern Workspace Pro 30 July 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact

MC1465860: Microsoft 365 Apps Rolls Out Current Channel Update for September 2026

MC1465780: Outlook Mobile Adds Automatic Email Sensitivity Labels Based on Labeled Attachments

MC1465779: Outlook for Mac Adds Sensitivity Label Recommendations and Auto-Labeling Based on Attachments

MC1465773: Microsoft Viva Engage Shifts Community and Membership Management to Require Microsoft Entra Permissions

MC1465777: PowerPoint Live Adds Up and Down Arrow Key Support for Slide Navigation

MC1465764: Teams Web Client Redirects from teams.microsoft.com to teams.cloud.microsoft

MC1465771: Microsoft Defender XDR Sets DLP Alerts as Behaviors by Default to Reduce Incident Queue Volume

MC1465768: Microsoft Teams Adds Option to Temporarily Pause Notifications

MC1465770: Power BI Makes Developer Mode and PBIP File Format Generally Available with PBIR as Default

MC1465744: Copilot Studio Adds Credential Oversharing Detection to Enforce Safe Sharing