MCP-based agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will support rich interactive UI widgets, enhancing user interactions with structured visuals. This rollout begins late February 2026. Admins manage agents via Microsoft 365 Admin Center with existing controls and Entra ID group access. No action is required to prepare.
Teams admins will soon access a new Protection reports section in the Teams admin center to review and export user-reported security submissions for calls (from mid-April 2026) and later for chats and channels. This requires enabling user reporting settings and helps improve organizational security monitoring.
Microsoft Purview has removed relaxed proximity matching in out-of-box sensitive information types, enforcing stricter proximity rules to improve detection accuracy. This change may reduce detections in some scenarios and affects organizations using OOB SITs in data classification or DLP policies. Custom SITs remain configurable.
A new Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet will allow admins to change the organizer of existing meetings or series, preserving meeting history and updating attendees silently within the tenant. Rollout begins mid-May 2026, requiring no configuration. User-initiated organizer changes in Outlook and Teams will follow later.
Teams Android device management is moving from the Teams admin center to the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal between April and September 2026. PMP will unify management of all Teams devices with enhanced features. No immediate action is needed; devices will auto-appear in PMP at General Availability.
Starting March 2026, Microsoft Defender Antivirus with MDE configuration management will stop storing readable exclusion values in the local registry. Organizations must use supported PowerShell cmdlets like Get-MpPreference to retrieve antivirus settings. Registry-based monitoring will no longer work for affected devices.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android will support ad-hoc room reservations directly from the device with a Teams Rooms Pro license, starting mid-March 2026. Users can reserve rooms quickly via the calendar, with admin controls to enable or restrict this feature. No prior action is needed before rollout.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will allow creating cases without content download, introducing a new active case limit of 2000 while keeping the content download limit at 100. This feature rolls out from late February 2026 (preview) to late June 2026 (general availability).
We are announcing the ability to trigger forecast scenarios on demand in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This feature will reach general availability on February 27, 2026.
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