WEEKLY BRIEFING · 16 FEB – 22 FEB 2026 · UTC
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Week 8 sources
No new MSRC release that week. 30 roadmap changes, led by Outlook (9) and Microsoft Edge (6). CISA added 1 Microsoft CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. 4 lifecycle milestones fall in the next 30 days. 10 Azure updates. 12 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
30Roadmap changes across 8 products
12Windows and security articles
1Microsoft CVEs added to CISA KEV
Security to act on1
Windows and security news12
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7872 (Beta Channel)20 Feb
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7877 (Dev Channel)20 Feb
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1619 (Canary Channel)20 Feb
- Stop Worrying and Love the Outage, Vol IV: Preference items20 Feb
- Edge 145.0.3800.70: Chromium security fixes20 Feb
7 more
- Cross Forest Enrollment – PKISync.PS119 Feb
- Announcing New Optional Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29531.100018 Feb
- Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 to the Release Preview Channel17 Feb
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (Beta Channel)17 Feb
- Introducing library management in Microsoft Defender17 Feb
- Edge Extended Stable 144.0.3719.130: fixes CVE-2026-2441, exploited in the wild17 Feb
- WAF - WAF Release - 2026-02-1616 Feb
Lifecycle milestones in the next 30 days4
- Retirement: Speech to Text API v3.0 API Retirement 13 Mar
- Retirement · 2 products: DMS (classic) – SQL Scenarios only retirement; Feature deprecation: Trigger playbooks on alerts by analytics rule 15 Mar
- Retirement: AzureML Batch Endpoints API Preview retirement 16 Mar
Product news17
Microsoft Graph · 7
- Security (beta): 1 API change passage20 Feb
- Security (v1.0): 1 API change passage20 Feb
- People and workplace intelligence (beta): 3 API change passages20 Feb
4 more
Google Gemini · 4
- Launched a separate endpoint gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools, which is better at prioritizing custom tools, for users building with a mix of bash and tools.19 Feb
- Released Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, our latest iteration in the new Gemini 3 series family.19 Feb
- Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down June 1, 2026: gemini-2.0-flash gemini-2.0-flash-001 gemini-2.0-flash-lite gemini-2.0-flash-lite-00118 Feb
Azure Kubernetes Service · 1
- Release 2026-02-0817 Feb
Azure Virtual Desktop · 1
dbatools · 1
- dbatools 2.7.2519 Feb
GitLab · 1
- GitLab 18.919 Feb
PowerShell · 1
PSEventViewer · 1
- PSEventViewer 3.4.021 Feb
Azure updates10
- Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central20 Feb
- Generally Available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available on Azure Databricks18 Feb
- Generally Available: Azure Functions .NET 10 support18 Feb
- Generally Available: Quota and deployment troubleshooting tools for Azure Functions Flex Consumption18 Feb
- Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS18 Feb
5 more
- Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server18 Feb
- Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in Sovereign Cloud18 Feb
- Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters in AKS now support LocalDNS18 Feb
- Generally Available: Encryption at host & disk encryption sets support in node auto-provisioning18 Feb
- Generally Available: Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk17 Feb
From the community2
Microsoft 365 roadmap30
Outlook · 9
- Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events20 Feb
- Outlook: Wait on Send for oversharing dialog in New Outlook20 Feb
- Outlook: Editor (Proofing and Spellcheck)19 Feb
6 more
- Outlook: External tag in contact suggestions19 Feb
- Outlook: Global Address List Redesign19 Feb
- Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook19 Feb
- Outlook: New Outlook for Windows - Reply To header19 Feb
- Outlook: New third-party enriched properties available for customizing profile cards18 Feb
- Outlook: Offline Support for Calendar - Create, Edit and Delete Event support18 Feb
Microsoft Edge · 6
- Microsoft Edge: Announcement page on update experience20 Feb
- Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable web app installation from the browser20 Feb
- Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Add “Summarize” and “Explain” Copilot actions in PDF reader19 Feb
3 more
Teams · 6
- Microsoft Teams: Autocorrect in Teams compose20 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: Line key configuration on Teams Phone devices from Teams Admin Center (TAC)20 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel20 Feb
3 more
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 5
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Local file support for Agent Mode in Excel20 Feb
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Word Agent20 Feb
- Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Securely enable AI generated applications20 Feb
2 more
4 more products · 4 changes
Excel · 1
- Excel: Python in Excel18 Feb
Microsoft Entra · 1
Purview · 1
Viva · 1
Other public updates29
- Microsoft Purview | Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Logged-in user details on the Purview device onboarding page20 Feb
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – File Testing Against Sensitive Information Classifiers20 Feb
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and label policy configurations20 Feb
- Plan for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB end of support20 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: Upcoming changes to Microsoft Places licensing and feature access20 Feb
24 more
- OneNote for iOS: Introducing automatic local backups20 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: Reduced automatic updates in Meet Now channel meeting threads19 Feb
- Personalize your Message center feed19 Feb
- Power Apps - Explore and visualize data with data exploration agent19 Feb
- New device settings experience in Teams on the web19 Feb
- DLP policies will be able to block Copilot processing of sensitivity‑labeled files in all storage locations19 Feb
- Tenant Default Change – Workspace Admins Will Be Allowed to Enable Monitoring19 Feb
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service - Quality Evaluation Agent for Bulk Case Evaluation18 Feb
- Follow‑up on Required Custom Domain Configuration for Teams Event Email Templates18 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list18 Feb
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Drive confident engagement with enhanced consent‑based segmentation18 Feb
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Adaptive scopes for DLP for SharePoint18 Feb
- Search feedback experience update: Legacy Search18 Feb
- Microsoft Rewards: Retirement of Azure AD Account Linking18 Feb
- Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) - March 31, 202618 Feb
- Microsoft Teams on Windows: Annotate content while sharing a single window18 Feb
- Microsoft Teams: Retirement of the Microsoft Teams app from the Amazon Appstore18 Feb
- Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience18 Feb
- Microsoft SharePoint: Use SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows with new column type18 Feb
- Context preservation in Microsoft Teams18 Feb
- Retirement of “Suspected identity theft (pass-the-ticket)” classic alert18 Feb
- Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel18 Feb
- Coming soon to organizations: Customize the Start menu with updated policies 17 Feb
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Enable manual customer due dates for project invoices16 Feb
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