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

Enabling localization for the default Mark and Notify email template used in admin review and automation flows for user reported messages. This ensures end users receive review outcome notifications in their preferred language, improving understanding, trust, and participation in email reporting within Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

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

This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data included in the direct export workflow in eDiscovery, adding to the Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.

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

When users open links from Outlook, Microsoft Edge can automatically open the Copilot side pane to provide contextual insights and actionable suggestion chips based on email and destination content – such as highlighting key points, and recommending next actions – without disrupting the browsing flow. This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge.

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

Other AI apps will move to pay-as-you-go model. Microsoft Copilot experiences indicators can still be used for free even without subscription. To continue using Other AI apps indicators, please link an Azure subscription to Microsoft Purview to enable billing.

Insider Risk Management indicators transitioning to a pay-as-you-go pricing model: “Entering risky prompt in Other AI apps”. This indicator is present in Policy indicators-> Generative AI apps -> Other AI apps

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. ​ 

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

The February 2026 non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, versions 26H1, 25H2, and 24H2. Information about the contents of this update is available from the release notes, which are accessible from the Windows 11 update history page. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained.

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

As you visit customer locations and attend meetings on the go, you need to prepare quickly. Sales agent in Outlook mobile provides you with all the necessary information about your customers, opportunities, and risks you need to be aware of before meeting them.

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

The Usage page is a new, reliable, in-product usage analytics experience in the Power Platform admin center. This experience provides authoritative usage metrics for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio. It provides daily and monthly aggregated views with trendlines.

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

File groups empower makers to deliver more precise, context-aware answers by organizing related documents into a unified knowledge source. This improves agent performance, reduces irrelevant responses, and enhances user trust. Makers save time from streamlined knowledge management, especially in scenarios with nuanced or segmented content, such as regional policies or other variables, where traditional flat file ingestion falls short.

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

Customers with existing data pipelines or data products in data mesh mostly want to stick to normalized, efficient forms such as star schema. Power Automate Process Mining currently requires you to transform the event log into a single-table form, where attributes with small cardinality are duplicated. Support for star schema reduces storage volumes and speeds up ingestion performance.

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

Publishing to Microsoft Fabric breaks down data silos and amplifies the impact of your process insights across your organization. Instead of keeping process analytics isolated in a standalone tool, your teams can now blend object-centric process metrics with financial data, operational KPIs, customer information, and other enterprise data sources within Fabric’s unified platform. This means business analysts can build comprehensive Power BI reports that combine process performance with business outcomes, data scientists can incorporate process patterns into predictive models, and executives can access process metrics alongside other strategic indicators in their existing dashboards. By meeting stakeholders where they already work, you accelerate adoption, enable richer cross-functional analysis, and ensure process intelligence becomes an integral part of enterprise decision-making rather than a disconnected specialty tool.

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