Weekly briefing

Week 31 · 27 Jul – 2 Aug 2026 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.

All dated changes in this period

349 source records · 145 groups

1 Aug 2026

ReleasesAzure PowerShell

Az PowerShell module 16.2.0

Tool release · Az PowerShell module releases

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Release notes mention breaking changes

Notes mention breaking changes88 release-note bullets

mcr.microsoft.com/azure-powershell:latest
mcr.microsoft.com/azure-powershell:alpine-3.23
mcr.microsoft.com/azure-powershell:16.2.0-alpine-3.23

1 Aug 2026

CommunityMSEndpointMgr

Intune assignment filters for every in-support Windows build

Community post · MSEndpointMgr

1 Aug 2026

CommunityOffice 365 for IT Pros (Tony Redmond)

Microsoft 365 for IT Pros August 2026 Update

Community post · Office 365 for IT Pros (Tony Redmond)

1 Aug 2026

Known issuesAzure / Commercial changes

Microsoft Azure — Product Terms

Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

1 Aug 2026

Known issuesCommercial changes / Defender

Microsoft Defender Experts — Product Terms

Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

1 Aug 2026

Known issuesCommercial changes6 source records

Product Terms · 6 entries

Glossary — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA
Microsoft 365: — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA
Privacy & Security Terms — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

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Professional Services — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA
Software Assurance Benefits — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA
Universal License Terms for Online Services — Product Terms
Product Terms · Microsoft Product Terms — MCA

Aug 2026

Known issuesOutlook2 source records

Office known issue · 2 entries

[FIXED] Copilot Chat shows three dots in classic Outlook for Windows
Office known issue · Classic Outlook known issues
[FIXED] Error when opening encrypted email in classic Outlook for Windows
Office known issue · Classic Outlook known issues

1 Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceAnthropic Claude

Dreams (research preview) now supports Claude Opus 5.

Product news · Claude Platform release notes

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceAzure Arc

Azure Connected Machine agent 1.67 (2 security fixes)

Product news · Azure Connected Machine agent release notes

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceAzure Virtual Desktop5 source records

Product news · 5 entries

App Attach support for multiple user configuration files
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new
Modern Auto-Reconnect (Public Preview)
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new
Modern Auto-Reconnect begins rollout in Azure Virtual Desktop
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new

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RAW printing support for Azure Virtual Desktop (Public Preview)
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new
Screen Capture Protection for web connections is now available
Product news · Azure Virtual Desktop what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio / GitHub Copilot

Learn about usage-based billing for agents, workflows, and apps powered by the GitHub Copilot harness, measured in Copilot Credits.

Product news · Copilot Studio what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio / Microsoft Fabric

(Preview) Connect your agent to Fabric IQ to ground responses in business data and analytics from Microsoft Fabric, generating insights grounded in your organization's s…

Product news · Copilot Studio what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio / SQL Server

Add Azure SQL tables as a knowledge source to ground your agent in structured data from your Azure SQL database or SQL Server, so it can answer questions directly from y…

Product news · Copilot Studio what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceCopilot Studio3 source records

Product news · 3 entries

(Preview) Add Work IQ to your agents to ground them in real-time, shared context across your organization, connecting signals from files, emails, meetings, chats, and Bu…
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
Control image rendering and embedded URLs in agent responses to help protect users from untrusted or potentially harmful content, configurable per environment or environ…
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new
Onboard to Microsoft Agent 365 for centralized governance of Copilot Studio agents, including identity representation in Microsoft Entra, Conditional Access and access g…
Product news · Copilot Studio what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceDefender / Microsoft Entra

Expanded automatic auditing support for AD CS, AD FS, and Entra Connect servers

Product news · Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceDefender / Purview

New: Microsoft 365 audit log activities now include Microsoft Defender for Cloud activities, People Skills activities, Microsoft 365 Archive file-level policy activities…

Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceDefender9 source records

Product news · 9 entries

Breaking change: Unused actions no longer included in AWS and GCP overprovisioned identity assessments
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
Classic Defender for SQL APIs retirement
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
Defender for Endpoint Linux 101.26062.0007
Product news · Defender for Endpoint Linux releases

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Defender for Endpoint macOS 101.26062.0011
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
Defender for Endpoint macOS 101.26062.0012
Product news · Defender for Endpoint macOS releases
Defender for Identity sensor updates
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Identity what's new
On-demand malware scanning now supports scanning specific blobs, files, containers, and file shares
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes
Unified RBAC is enabled by default for new Defender for Cloud Apps customers
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps release notes
Update to CVE details data consumption in Azure Resource Graph
Product news · Microsoft Defender for Cloud release notes

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Edge / Purview

Updated: Guidance for DLP policies in Microsoft Edge for Business now explains policy sync status, where to investigate managed and unmanaged app activity, and coverage…

Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Graph / Windows 365

Device and app management | Cloud PC (beta): 1 API change passage

Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes

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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceMicrosoft Graph49 source records

Graph announcement · 1 passages · 24 entries

Applications (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Applications (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Change notifications | Subscription (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes

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Device and app management | Cloud licensing (beta): 5 API change passages
Graph announcement · 5 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Files (beta): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Files (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Identity and access | Directory management (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Identity and access | Governance (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Identity and access | Governance (v1.0): 10 API change passages
Graph announcement · 10 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Identity and access | Identity and sign-in (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Identity and access | Identity and sign-in (v1.0): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Mail (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Mail (v1.0): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Mailbox import and export (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
People and workplace intelligence | People (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Security (v1.0): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Security | Advanced hunting (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Security | Alerts and incidents (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Security | Case management (beta): 4 API change passages
Graph announcement · 4 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Security | Data security and compliance (beta): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Teamwork and communications | Calls and online meetings (beta): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Teamwork and communications | Calls and online meetings (v1.0): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Teamwork and communications | Messaging (beta): 2 API change passages
Graph announcement · 2 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes
Tenants | Tenant governance (v1.0): 1 API change passage
Graph announcement · 1 passages · Microsoft Graph monthly changes
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Publisher announcement group; its passages may describe different API changes

Aug 2026

Updates and guidancePurview / Teams

Updated: In cross-tenant Microsoft Teams chats and channels, DLP policy enforcement follows the tenant that initiated the conversation.

Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidancePurview18 source records

Product news · 18 entries

In preview: Permanently delete SharePoint and OneDrive files with Priority Cleanup.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
In preview: Prepare Endpoint DLP for permission changes in macOS 27.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
In preview: Sensitivity label policies for non-Microsoft connected apps.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new

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In preview: Use data loss prevention policies for non-Microsoft connected apps.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
New: Before enforcing an auto-labeling policy, run it in simulation mode to identify which items it would label without making any changes.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
New: Remove a retention hold from an unlicensed OneDrive site by using Security & Compliance PowerShell.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
New: Review the minimum OneNote versions and supported sensitivity label capabilities for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and the web.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
New: Run on-demand classification scans on Windows endpoints to discover sensitive information without waiting for files to be opened or modified.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
New: The Insights tab in the policy details panel provides an at-a-glance view of an auto-labeling policy's performance.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: Added guidance describing how to provide external users access to open files protected by user-defined permissions sensitivity labels.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: App-only authentication for eDiscovery cmdlets in Security & Compliance PowerShell is unsupported.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: Auto-labeling policies can target more than 100 SharePoint sites by using an existing adaptive scope with the SharePointAdaptiveScopes parameter with New-AutoSe…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: Data Quality capability requires the Microsoft Purview account and its data sources to be in the same Azure region.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: If an Exchange DLP policy uses sensitivity labels as a condition and policy tips while mandatory labeling is enabled, selecting a label from the mandatory-label…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: If an active auto-labeling policy stops matching Exchange email because a rule failed to load, contact Microsoft Support to identify the affected rule.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: Microsoft Purview support for Anthropic Claude Enterprise now includes data classification, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery, Data…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: The Endpoint DLP capability comparison now clarifies that policies for access by apps not included in a restricted apps list or restricted app group are support…
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new
Updated: When you remove the last hold from an inactive mailbox, Microsoft 365 automatically applies a 30-day delay hold.
Product news · Microsoft Purview what's new

Aug 2026

Updates and guidanceSentinel3 source records

Product news · 3 entries

New data sources for UEBA behaviors and anomaly detection (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
SAP solution releases
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new
UEBA anomalies on behaviors (Preview)
Product news · Microsoft Sentinel what's new

1 Aug 2026

Message CenterDefender

MC1192257: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence: Convergence with Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel

Message Center action date · Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando

Groups collect records about the same product or named security topic on one UTC date. Open a record for its source and history; grouping alone does not establish a shared cause or impact.