WEEKLY BRIEFING · 30 MAR – 5 APR 2026 · UTC
Public sources only
140 public updates in week 14
Microsoft published 2 Windows KB releases (2 out-of-band). No new MSRC release that week. 19 roadmap changes, led by Microsoft 365 Copilot (7) and Outlook (3). 12 lifecycle milestones fall in the next 30 days. 12 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
2Windows KB releases
0MSRC release notes
19Roadmap changes across 6 products
12Windows and security articles
Windows releases2
Windows and security news12
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1803 (Canary Channel)3 Apr
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29560.10003 Apr
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8155 (Dev Channel)3 Apr
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8148 (Beta Channel)3 Apr
- Replacement of the Microsoft SaRA command-line utility in Windows3 Apr
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- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter2 Apr
- Secure Boot certificate update status in the Windows Security app2 Apr
- Take Action: Out-of-band update to address an issue affecting installation of the March 2026 non-security preview update31 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29558.100030 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1797 (Canary Channel)30 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8142 (Dev Channel)30 Mar
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8138 (Beta Channel)30 Mar
Lifecycle milestones in the next 30 days12
- End of support · 10 products: Dynamics C5 2016, Dynamics NAV 2016, Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0, Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0, Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.1, Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.0 for Windows Desktops, Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.1 for Windows Desktops, Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.5, Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 10.0, User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) 2.1 14 Apr
- Retirement: Azure Application Gateway v1 28 Apr
- Retirement: Custom Commands 30 Apr
Microsoft product news106
Microsoft Purview what's new · 25
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- General availability (GA)1 Apr
- In preview: Data quality provides on-premises support for Oracle and SQL server.1 Apr
- In preview: Data quality thresholds help stakeholders and data consumers know when data quality scores fall below standards.1 Apr
- In preview: New bulk import, editing, and moving capabilities can help you quickly scale operations in Unified Catalog: Create data products in bulk Create critical data…1 Apr
- In preview: Organizations using Customer Key can now enable customer-managed key (CMK) encryption for direct export packages in eDiscovery.1 Apr
- In preview: Preview content while triaging alerts to quickly identify false positives, confirm the presence of sensitive data, and decide whether the alert warrants esca…1 Apr
- In preview: Proactive AI insights from Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) automatically create and refresh a single investigation for your tenant every 24 hours.1 Apr
- In preview: Use a one-time glossary migration and asset enablement process to curate data assets and columns with glossary terms.1 Apr
- New: A new conceptual article, Learn about just-in-time protection, now covers JIT concepts, terms, supported activities, device compatibility, and includes a detailed J…1 Apr
- New: A new Data Security Investigation Contributor role automatically provides Data Security Investigations access to members of several Microsoft Purview role groups.1 Apr
- New: Microsoft Sentinel with partner solutions now also supports Varonis to provide holistic data insights for Salesforce.1 Apr
- New: Newly created Teams call data records (often abbreviated to CDRs, and sometimes also called call detail records or just call records) are no longer included with Te…1 Apr
- New: Rolling out, users can now apply sensitivity labels configured for user-defined permissions while using Office for the web.1 Apr
- New: The Advanced review set explorer (preview) includes a new left navigation pane to browse the review set schema, insert KQL operators, and run sample queries, and a…1 Apr
- New: The Label policies page for label publishing policies has a new Export policies option, where the Export to CSV selection acts similarly to Export on the Sensitivit…1 Apr
- Preview: Collection policies support sensitivity labels as a condition for scoping detection to items with specific sensitivity labels applied.1 Apr
- Preview: Data loss prevention policy tip reference for Outlook for Android, iOS, and macOS.1 Apr
- Preview: DLP policies for unmanaged cloud apps support a new URL contains text condition that detects when the URL of the cloud app contains specified text strings.1 Apr
- Preview: Email notifications for browser and network DLP rules notify end users via email when their activity is blocked.1 Apr
- Updated: Restructured the just-in-time (JIT) protection documentation.1 Apr
- Updated: The Get started with just-in-time protection article now focuses on deployment and configuration steps.1 Apr
- Updated: The maximum number of review sets per case has increased from 20 to 100 for eDiscovery with premium feature support.1 Apr
Microsoft Entra what's new · 22
- General Availability - As an AP requestor, I can see in My Access who my approver(s) are if the access package owner allows me to1 Apr
- General Availability - Configurable Token Lifetime Policies1 Apr
- General Availability - Enforce Conditional Access policies like MFA on every PIM activation1 Apr
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- General Availability - Entra CBA as third option in system-preferred MFA methods1 Apr
- General Availability - Entra CBA Certificate Authority (CA) scoping1 Apr
- General Availability - GSA Cloud Firewall for Remote Networks1 Apr
- General Availability - GSA iOS client support1 Apr
- General Availability - Issuer Hints for Microsoft Entra CBA1 Apr
- General Availability - License Usage1 Apr
- General Availability - Microsoft Entra Agent ID platform1 Apr
- General Availability - Microsoft Entra Certificate-based authentication (CBA) support on iOS and CBA as second factor1 Apr
- General Availability - Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 Service Pack 3 (SP3)1 Apr
- General Availability - Network Content Filtering based on File Types1 Apr
- General Availability - Prefetch Workday termination data to customize account disable logic1 Apr
- General Availability – Enabling Social Identity Providers in Entra External ID Native Authentication via browser‑delegated (web‑view) flows using SDKs for applications1 Apr
- Plan for change - Switch from basic auth to workload identity based auth for SAP SuccessFactors provisioning integrations1 Apr
- Plan for change - Update SCIM provisioning applications to use modern authentication1 Apr
- Public Preview - $count filtering in sign-ins API1 Apr
- Public Preview - Account Discovery1 Apr
- Public Preview - App-based branding via Branding themes in Microsoft Entra tenants1 Apr
- Public Preview - Microsoft Entra ID federation with External ID (EEID)1 Apr
- Upcoming Change - Migrate from Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync1 Apr
Copilot Studio what's new · 10
- (General availability) Connect agents to other agents using the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol.1 Apr
- (Preview) Add a display name suffix to identify agents across environments in Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot using environment variables.1 Apr
- (Preview) Analyze your agent with custom metrics by defining your own analytics categories and visualizing results alongside built-in analytics.1 Apr
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- (Preview) Build and deploy real-time voice agents for Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 Contact Center, with support for NLU, multilingual conversations, knowledge integra…1 Apr
- (Preview) Run automated agent evaluations from a REST API using the Power Platform API to integrate evaluation into CI/CD and custom automation pipelines.1 Apr
- (Preview) Use GPT-5.5 Reasoning (Deep) as an experimental model for agents requiring deep analytical reasoning.1 Apr
- Configure hold and resume for voice-enabled agents to pause mid-conversation and resume where you left off, giving users a more natural calling experience.1 Apr
- Share analytics access with colleagues using the new Analytics Viewer role, without granting broader maker permissions.1 Apr
- Trigger agent evaluations automatically using the Copilot Studio connector with Power Automate, reducing manual effort in your testing workflow.1 Apr
- Use the agent usage estimator to forecast Copilot credit consumption across Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 agents before deploying at scale.1 Apr
Microsoft Sentinel what's new · 9
- Accelerate Microsoft Sentinel connector development with Visual Studio Code connector builder agent (Preview)1 Apr
- AI-powered SIEM migration tool is now generally available1 Apr
- Build custom graphs (Preview)1 Apr
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- Configure row-level access using Microsoft Sentinel scoping (Preview)1 Apr
- Cost estimation tool for customers and partners (Preview)1 Apr
- Entity analyzer is now generally available1 Apr
- Microsoft Sentinel data federation (Preview)1 Apr
- Transform data with filter and split features (Preview)1 Apr
- [Updated] Call to action: update automation by July 1, 2026 - Account Name is now consistently the UPN prefix for analytics rule alerts1 Apr
Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes · 6
- Anti-malware detection and blocking is now generally available1 Apr
- Defender for Containers runtime protection on EKS Bottlerocket is now generally available1 Apr
- DNS Detection for Kubernetes is now generally available1 Apr
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Gemini API release notes · 4
- Released gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it, available on AI Studio and through the Gemini API, as part of the Gemma 4 launch.2 Apr
- Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.1 Apr
- Launched Veo 3.1 Lite Preview, veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview, our most cost-efficient video generation model, designed for rapid iteration and building high-volume appli…31 Mar
Microsoft Graph changelog · 4
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): Deleted the model query parameter from the update operation of the chatMessage resource. (+6 more)1 Apr
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): Added the enabledApps relationship to the channel resource. (+4 more)1 Apr
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): Added the layoutType property to the channel resource. (+1 more)1 Apr
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Microsoft Defender XDR what's new · 4
- (GA) Built-in alert tuning rules are now generally available.1 Apr
- (Preview) The AIAgentsInfo table in advanced hunting now includes additional columns that provide deeper visibility into AI agents operating in your Microsoft 365 enviro…1 Apr
- (Preview) You can now view the current status of automatic attack disruption and predictive shielding actions related to a specific incident.1 Apr
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 what's new · 4
- New RBAC permission for email content associated with alerts1 Apr
- Promotions folder for bulk email (preview)1 Apr
- Remove users from Teams chats is generally available1 Apr
Classic Outlook known issues · 4
- [FIXED] Auto Translate stopped working in classic Outlook1 Apr
- [FIXED] Classic Outlook error when sending from Outlook.com "You do not have permission to send on behalf of the specified user 0x80070005-0x0004dc-0x000524."1 Apr
- [FIXED] My Templates are missing from Outlook1 Apr
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Windows 365 what's new · 4
- Additional client support for external identities30 Mar
- Additional regions for Windows 365 Flex (shared)30 Mar
- Azure Network Connections now show available IP capacity30 Mar
Azure Virtual Desktop what's new · 3
- Additional client support for external identities in Microsoft Azure for US Government1 Apr
- App Attach support for Windows Server 2025 and 2022 in Azure Virtual Desktop is now available1 Apr
- Enhanced session resilience with RDP Multipath (Public Preview)1 Apr
Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new · 3
- Automatic Windows event auditing configuration for sensors v3.x is now generally available1 Apr
- Custom account correlation rules (Preview)1 Apr
- Identity Explorer (Preview)1 Apr
PowerShell Team Blog · 1
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform Blog · 1
Microsoft Teams Blog · 1
Azure Connected Machine agent release notes · 1
From the community1
Microsoft 365 roadmap19
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 7
- Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks3 Apr
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Files found via Chat search can be now analyzed by code interpreter3 Apr
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can create and deploy custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors across Microsoft 365.2 Apr
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- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover graph connector prompts in the Prompt Gallery when using Copilot Chat2 Apr
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot2 Apr
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint31 Mar
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access audio overviews from the top of your Word document30 Mar
Outlook · 3
- Outlook: Prepare for your meeting with Copilot chat in Outlook mobile3 Apr
- Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows30 Mar
- Outlook: Multiple Intune Accounts for Outlook on iOS30 Mar
Purview · 3
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label3 Apr
- Microsoft Purview: Role Group changes in Purview2 Apr
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention– Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Mac devices31 Mar
SharePoint · 3
- SharePoint: Lists as a knowledge source for agents in SharePoint and OneDrive1 Apr
- SharePoint: OneNote usage inclusion in SharePoint site analytics1 Apr
- SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites31 Mar
2 more products · 3 changes
Teams · 2
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting Notes now available for instant meetings3 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center31 Mar
Microsoft 365 · 1
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