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(Updated) Retirement of featured links on SharePoint Start Page [MC1197131]

Message ID: MC1197131 (Updated) Updated January 23, 2026: We are updating this post as a reminder. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] We’re retiring the Featured Links capability on the SharePoint Start Page due to low adoption. This change helps streamline…

Modern Workspace Pro 23 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, Updated message, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Entra

Custom greetings in voice call authentication will retire on Feb 28, 2026 [MC1219798]

Message ID: MC1219798 As communicated in MC1125485 and Configure Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn, we will retire the Custom greetings feature in Voice call authentication on February 28, 2026. This feature allowed organizations to…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

SharePoint Online

Microsoft SharePoint: Retirement of IDCRL authentication protocol and enforcement of OpenID Connect and OAuth protocols [MC1184649]

Message ID: MC1184649 (Updated) Updated January 20, 2026: We are updating this post as a reminder. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction:] As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and in alignment with the “Secure by Default” principle, we’re…

Modern Workspace Pro 20 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, Updated message, User impactNo Comments

Power BI

Retirement of Power BI Q&A [MC1218421]

Message ID: MC1218421 Introduction We are announcing the retirement of Q&A, Power BI’s legacy natural language tool. Starting December 2026, Q&A experiences will be retired. Moving forward, users can leverage Power BI Copilot, which offers a more advanced and integrated…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Power BI

Power BI: End of support for on-prem SharePoint web part [MC1217651]

Message ID: MC1217651 [Introduction] We are ending support for the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Report Viewer SharePoint Webpart feature. This change aligns with our efforts to simplify integration and improve reliability by using modern embedding methods. Instead of the…

Modern Workspace Pro 14 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, RetirementNo Comments

Microsoft Purview

Endpoint DLP-sensitive data alerting retiring in Defender; use Purview DLP [MC1217649]

Message ID: MC1217649 [Introduction] We’re retiring the ability to create alert policies and generate DLP alerts for sensitive data activities on endpoints in the Microsoft Defender portal. This change unifies endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) detection and alerting under Microsoft…

Modern Workspace Pro 14 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

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…
AI Music Generator on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging22 January 2026
It's great to see that SageMaker HyperPod is enhancing its lifecycle script debugging. Troubleshooting during cluster provisioning can be a…
Flux API on Announcing availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks in 20 more countries22 January 2026
The addition of 20 new countries for AWS Outposts racks is a significant step forward for the hybrid cloud movement.…
AI Music Generator on Amazon ECR now supports cross-repository layer sharing to optimize storage and improve push performance22 January 2026
Cross-repository layer sharing in ECR feels like a big win for teams running lots of microservices off the same base…