Weekly briefing
Week 14 · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
All dated changes in this period
311 source records · 116 groupsUpdates and guidanceAzure Arc
Azure Connected Machine agent 1.63
Product news · Azure Connected Machine agent release notes
Updates and guidanceAzure Virtual Desktop2 source records
Product news · 2 entries
- App Attach support for Windows Server 2025 and 2022 in Azure Virtual Desktop is now available
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new
- Enhanced session resilience with RDP Multipath (Public Preview)
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new
Updates and guidanceAzure4 source records
Azure update · 4 entries
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Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio / Microsoft 365 Copilot
(Preview) Add a display name suffix to identify agents across environments in Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot using environment variables.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio / Power Platform
(Preview) Run automated agent evaluations from a REST API using the Power Platform API to integrate evaluation into CI/CD and custom automation pipelines.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio8 source records
Product news · 8 entries
- (General availability) Connect agents to other agents using the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
- (Preview) Analyze your agent with custom metrics by defining your own analytics categories and visualizing results alongside built-in analytics.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
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- (Preview) Use GPT-5.5 Reasoning (Deep) as an experimental model for agents requiring deep analytical reasoning.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
- 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.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
- Share analytics access with colleagues using the new Analytics Viewer role, without granting broader maker permissions.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
- Trigger agent evaluations automatically using the Copilot Studio connector with Power Automate, reducing manual effort in your testing workflow.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
- Use the agent usage estimator to forecast Copilot credit consumption across Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 agents before deploying at scale.
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
Updates and guidanceDefender22 source records
Product news · 22 entries
- (GA) Built-in alert tuning rules are now generally available.
Product news · Microsoft Defender XDR what's new
- (Preview) The AIAgentsInfo table in advanced hunting now includes additional columns that provide deeper visibility into AI agents operating in your Microsoft 365 enviro…
Product news · Microsoft Defender XDR what's new
- (Preview) You can now view the current status of automatic attack disruption and predictive shielding actions related to a specific incident.
Product news · Microsoft Defender XDR what's new
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- Anti-malware detection and blocking is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
- Automatic Windows event auditing configuration for sensors v3.x is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new
- Custom account correlation rules (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new
- DNS Detection for Kubernetes is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
- Defender for Containers runtime protection on EKS Bottlerocket is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
- Defender for Endpoint Linux 101.26032.0000
Product news · Defender for Endpoint Linux releases
- Defender for Endpoint macOS 101.26022.0018
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
- Defender for Endpoint macOS 101.26022.0020
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
- Defender for Endpoint macOS 101.26032.0016
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
- Defender for Endpoint macOS 4.18.25040.1
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
- General availability of Defender for Storage integration in Azure portal Storage Center
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
- General availability of container security capabilities in Azure Government cloud
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
- Identity Explorer (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new
- Microsoft Defender Experts MDR customers can now see Defender Experts as a distinct entry in the Microsoft Defender portal navigation menu.
Product news · Microsoft Defender XDR what's new
- New RBAC permission for email content associated with alerts
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 what's new
- Promotions folder for bulk email (preview)
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 what's new
- Remove users from Teams chats is generally available
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 what's new
- Security Copilot email summary on the Email entity page
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 what's new
- Update to Defender for SQL servers on machines plan for Fairfax customers
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
Updates and guidanceGoogle Gemini
Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.
Product news · Gemini API release notes
Updates and guidanceMicrosoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Entra
General Availability: Social Identity Providers for Native Authentication via Browser‑Delegated Flows (web-view) in Microsoft Entra External ID
Product news · Microsoft Entra Identity Platform Blog
Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Entra22 source records
Product news · 22 entries
- General Availability - As an AP requestor, I can see in My Access who my approver(s) are if the access package owner allows me to
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Configurable Token Lifetime Policies
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Enforce Conditional Access policies like MFA on every PIM activation
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
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- General Availability - Entra CBA Certificate Authority (CA) scoping
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Entra CBA as third option in system-preferred MFA methods
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - GSA Cloud Firewall for Remote Networks
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - GSA iOS client support
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Issuer Hints for Microsoft Entra CBA
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - License Usage
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Microsoft Entra Agent ID platform
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Microsoft Entra Certificate-based authentication (CBA) support on iOS and CBA as second factor
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 Service Pack 3 (SP3)
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Network Content Filtering based on File Types
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- General Availability - Prefetch Workday termination data to customize account disable logic
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Plan for change - Switch from basic auth to workload identity based auth for SAP SuccessFactors provisioning integrations
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Plan for change - Update SCIM provisioning applications to use modern authentication
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Public Preview - $count filtering in sign-ins API
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Public Preview - Account Discovery
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Public Preview - App-based branding via Branding themes in Microsoft Entra tenants
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Public Preview - Microsoft Entra ID federation with External ID (EEID)
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
- Upcoming Change - Migrate from Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
Product news · Microsoft Entra what's new
Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Graph31 source records
Graph announcement · 10 passages · 5 entries
- Identity and access (beta): 10 API change passages
Graph announcement · 10 passages · Microsoft Graph changelog
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
- Teamwork and communications (beta): 7 API change passages
Graph announcement · 7 passages · Microsoft Graph changelog
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph changelog
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
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- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): 5 API change passages
Graph announcement · 5 passages · Microsoft Graph changelog
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): 7 API change passages
Graph announcement · 7 passages · Microsoft Graph changelog
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Updates and guidancePowerShell
PowerShell 7.6 release postmortem and investments
Product news · PowerShell Team Blog
Updates and guidancePurview / SQL Server
In preview: Data quality provides on-premises support for Oracle and SQL server.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updates and guidancePurview / Sentinel
New: Microsoft Sentinel with partner solutions now also supports Varonis to provide holistic data insights for Salesforce.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updates and guidancePurview21 source records
Product news · 21 entries
- Documentation update
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- General availability (GA)
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- General availability (GA)
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
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- In preview: Data quality thresholds help stakeholders and data consumers know when data quality scores fall below standards.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- In preview: Organizations using Customer Key can now enable customer-managed key (CMK) encryption for direct export packages in eDiscovery.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- In preview: Proactive AI insights from Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) automatically create and refresh a single investigation for your tenant every 24 hours.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- In preview: Use a one-time glossary migration and asset enablement process to curate data assets and columns with glossary terms.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- New: A new Data Security Investigation Contributor role automatically provides Data Security Investigations access to members of several Microsoft Purview role groups.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- New: Rolling out, users can now apply sensitivity labels configured for user-defined permissions while using Office for the web.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Preview: Collection policies support sensitivity labels as a condition for scoping detection to items with specific sensitivity labels applied.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- 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.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Preview: Data loss prevention policy tip reference for Outlook for Android, iOS, and macOS.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Preview: Email notifications for browser and network DLP rules notify end users via email when their activity is blocked.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Updated: Restructured the just-in-time (JIT) protection documentation.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Updated: The Get started with just-in-time protection article now focuses on deployment and configuration steps.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
- Updated: The maximum number of review sets per case has increased from 20 to 100 for eDiscovery with premium feature support.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updates and guidanceSentinel9 source records
Product news · 9 entries
- AI-powered SIEM migration tool is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Accelerate Microsoft Sentinel connector development with Visual Studio Code connector builder agent (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Build custom graphs (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
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- Configure row-level access using Microsoft Sentinel scoping (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Cost estimation tool for customers and partners (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Entity analyzer is now generally available
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Microsoft Sentinel data federation (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- Transform data with filter and split features (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
- [Updated] Call to action: update automation by July 1, 2026 - Account Name is now consistently the UPN prefix for analytics rule alerts
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
Message CenterExchange
MC1267870: Outlook for iOS: New attachment actions and updates to previewer experience
Message Center · Stay informed · Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Exchange Online
Message CenterMicrosoft 365 Apps
MC1267867: Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium): Choose your AI model when editing presentations in PowerPoint
Message Center · Stay informed · Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Microsoft 365 apps
Message CenterMicrosoft Entra
Message CenterPower Platform
MC1226444: Power Platform admin center – Environments page updates
Message Center · Plan for change · Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando
Power Platform
ReleasesVisual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code · Stable: 1.114.0
New version · GitHub release record · package availability may differ
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ReleasesiOS and iPadOS2 source records
New version · 2 entries
- iOS and iPadOS · iOS 18: 18.7.7 (Security content)
New version · iOS and iPadOS releases
- iOS and iPadOS · iPadOS 18: 18.7.7 (Security content)
New version · iOS and iPadOS releases
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