WEEKLY BRIEFING · 2 MAR – 8 MAR 2026 · UTC
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Week 10 sources
Microsoft published 1 Windows KB release (1 out-of-band). No new MSRC release that week. 25 roadmap changes, led by Teams (7) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (5). 16 lifecycle milestones fall in the next 30 days. 4 Azure updates, including 1 retirement. 10 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
1Windows KB release
25Roadmap changes across 10 products
10Windows and security articles
Windows releases1
Windows and security news10
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1685 (Canary Channel)6 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7961 (Beta Channel)6 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7965 (Dev Channel)6 Mar
- Edge 145.0.3800.97: Chromium security fixes6 Mar
- From Guesswork to Clarity: GPP Diagnostics Improve in Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H24 Mar
5 more
- Copilot App on Windows: Opening web links alongside your conversations begins rolling out to Windows Insiders4 Mar
- Defending Container Runtime from Malware with Microsoft Defender for Containers4 Mar
- Transparent and customizable onboarding for modern and legacy Windows devices3 Mar
- Monthly news - March 20262 Mar
- WAF - WAF Release - 2026-03-022 Mar
Lifecycle milestones in the next 30 days16
- 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
- Retirement: Classic VMware protection scenario using ASR 29 Mar
- Retirement · 9 products: API Keys for querying Application Insights; Batch Region Retirement; Classic alerts for Azure Backup; Classic Compute Node Communication Model; Deprecation of flash-extract custom fields; Retire Require Approve Client App Conditional Access Grant; VHD and Managed Images; Windows Server 2019 on AKS hybrid; Windows Server 2019 on AKS Retirement 31 Mar
- End of support: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (Analytics Platform System) 31 Mar
- End of servicing: Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Modern Policy), 2024 release wave 2, version 25.x 4 Apr
Product news21
Microsoft Graph · 12
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): 2 API change passages5 Mar
- Device and app management (beta): 5 API change passages5 Mar
- Backup and recovery (beta): 1 API change passage5 Mar
9 more
- Device and app management (beta): 12 API change passages4 Mar
- Files (beta): 2 API change passages4 Mar
- Files (v1.0): 4 API change passages4 Mar
- Microsoft.Intune.AndroidFOTA (beta): 27 API change passages4 Mar
- Backup storage (beta): 3 API change passages3 Mar
- Identity and access (beta): 1 API change passage3 Mar
- Identity and access (v1.0): 2 API change passages3 Mar
- External data connections (v1.0): 19 API change passages3 Mar
- Identity and access (beta): 1 API change passage2 Mar
OpenAI · 2
- Released GPT-5.4, our newest frontier model for professional work, to the Chat Completions and Responses API, and released GPT-5.4 Pro to the Responses API for tougher p…5 Mar
- Released gpt-5.3-chat-latest to the Chat Completions and Responses API.3 Mar
Azure CLI · 1
- Azure CLI 2.84.03 Mar
Google Gemini · 1
OneDrive · 1
PSWriteHTML · 1
- PSWriteHTML 1.41.08 Mar
Ubiquiti UniFi · 1
Windows · 1
Windows 365 · 1
Azure updates4
From the community6
- Entra.Chat: Passkeys, Conditional Access, and GSA BYOD7 Mar
- How to get better with Graph API - Part one6 Mar
- Join us for the upcoming Dutch Microsoft Entra Community Meetup5 Mar
- Inside Active Directory: Misconceptions, Myths and Bugs (Part 1) – SDP4 Mar
- Discovering PowerShell provider dynamic parameters3 Mar
1 more
Microsoft 365 roadmap25
Teams · 7
- Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint6 Mar
- Microsoft Teams: Choose Your Enter Key Behavior in Teams Chat5 Mar
- Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list5 Mar
4 more
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 5
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat History Landing page: Filtering UI Refresh6 Mar
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive6 Mar
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to Share with Summary for OneDrive files in Windows6 Mar
2 more
Microsoft 365 · 3
- Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 companion apps- a suite of apps designed to enhance productivity4 Mar
- Microsoft 365: Cloud Update - Rollback All Devices3 Mar
- Microsoft 365: Cloud Update - Rollback by Group3 Mar
Defender · 2
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Report capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 16 Mar
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 15 Mar
6 more products · 8 changes
OneDrive · 2
- OneDrive: Prompt for permitted users to sign in to OneDrive app with personal Microsoft account4 Mar
- OneDrive: Sync admin reports - GCC-H and DoD4 Mar
Purview · 2
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label4 Mar
- Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations-Introducing new purge mitigation action3 Mar
OneNote · 1
Outlook · 1
SharePoint · 1
Viva · 1
Other public updates30
- Microsoft Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes6 Mar
- Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to the Data Security Triage Agent6 Mar
- Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 2)6 Mar
- Prevent/Fix: Microsoft Baseline Security Mode has automatically trigger Entra Conditional Access policy creation6 Mar
- Always-on diagnostics for Endpoint DLP – Turned on by default6 Mar
25 more
- Upcoming events to help with Secure Boot updates6 Mar
- AI Admin RBAC updates6 Mar
- Upcoming change: disabling Teams meeting recording expiration notification emails6 Mar
- Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Windows console5 Mar
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: People agent availability update5 Mar
- Outlook: Share Word, Excel and PowerPoint local files via the new Outlook for Windows5 Mar
- Microsoft Defender for iOS: End of support for iOS 16 devices5 Mar
- Targeted file and folder restores in Microsoft 365 Backup5 Mar
- Power Apps - Enable push notifications in custom branded apps5 Mar
- Windows news you can use: February 2026 recap4 Mar
- Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management - Ability to preview content in Insider Risk Management Alerts4 Mar
- Microsoft Teams: Changes to Teams Events licensing4 Mar
- High Volume Email for Microsoft 365 now generally available4 Mar
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to PowerPoint on‑canvas features with Agent mode4 Mar
- Retirement of SharePoint One-Time Passcode (SPO OTP) and transition to Microsoft Entra B2B4 Mar
- Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent feature updates4 Mar
- Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel3 Mar
- Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Pay-as-you-go model for generative AI apps3 Mar
- Set a custom name for the OneDrive sync folder3 Mar
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: License-based management updates for DM-synced devices3 Mar
- Set expiration policies for "People in your organization" sharing links in SharePoint and OneDrive2 Mar
- What’s new in the Microsoft Intune service update for February 20262 Mar
- Prepare devices for successful updates with Windows Autopatch update readiness2 Mar
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service- Generate AI-driven dynamic forecasts with intelligent method selection2 Mar
- Dynamics 365 Sales – Close simple deals using Deal Close Agent to generate quotes and complete orders2 Mar
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