What's New in Microsoft 365 - Friday, June 19, 2026

Microsoft 365 Blog

Copilot Cowork is now generally available

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Copilot Cowork worldwide. After three months of preview in Frontier, more than half of the Fortune 500 is using Copilot Cowork, along with companies . . .

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Celebrate Pride Month with a special theme for Mac and iOS

Hello, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Hugo Garcia, a Product Manager on the Apple Experiences team. I’m thrilled to announce the return of our special Pride Month theme in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series: From research to polished outputs

Work today often spans chats, files, meetings, and tools. Our latest Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series explores how connected experiences like Researcher, Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, and . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Microsoft Teams Blog

Engage customers with Teams Phone Agent and custom voice agents built in Copilot Studio

It’s often difficult for businesses to serve every customer right away during surges in call volumes. Callers sit on hold while staff race to work through the backlog. Meanwhile, agentic voice AI is o . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Microsoft Teams Support

New MRCA Diagnostic: Teams Virtual Events (Town Hall & Webinar)

Hi Teams Community, We’re excited to share another addition to Support Diagnostics for Microsoft Teams. The Teams Support team has added a new diagnostic to the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Planner Blog

Manage tasks in Planner with the Planner Agent

Planner Agent works alongside teams to help get work done faster and focus on what matters. The agent can execute tasks and act on feedback, while also providing a unified view of tasks across Planner . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Viva Engage Blog

Customer spotlight: How Foot Locker turned AI curiosity into adoption

When organizations talk about AI adoption, the conversation often starts with technology. At Foot Locker, it started with people. Like many companies, Foot Locker was exploring how Microsoft 365 Copil . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Access Blog

Bug fixes in Microsoft Access - Preview Version 2606 (Build 16.0.20131)

Bug Name

Issue Fixed

German keyboard: AltGr key combinations triggered zoom shortcuts instead of typing characters

On German and other keyboard layouts that use AltGr for common characters (such as . . .

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Power BI Blog

Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Starburst connector in Power BI (Preview)

When enabling Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on (SSo) for Starburst (Preview) report viewers querying semantic models in DirectQuery mode authenticate to Starburst with their own Entra ID identity, to . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Power BI Updates Blog

Workspace outbound access protection for Power BI reports (Preview)

Workspace outbound access protection (OAP) is a workspace-level control in Microsoft Fabric that lets you constrain where the data inside a workspace can flow. With this preview, OAP support now exten . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Org apps with audiences for Power BI and Fabric (Generally Available)

Announcing general availability of org apps in Power BI and Fabric, including one of the most requested capabilities: audiences.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Education Blog

What’s new in Assignments: interactive lessons, localized content, and smarter AI tools

Assignments in Microsoft Teams and through the Microsoft 365 LTI app has shipped a set of updates that connect interactive learning content directly into the assignment workflow, improve content quali . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Intune Customer Success

Deploying Platform SSO for pre macOS 26 with Microsoft Intune: Lessons Learned

By: Naveen Akkugari, Sr. Service Engineer and Michael Griswold, Principal Service Engineering Manager | Microsoft Intune Who we are Our internal Intune administration team at Microsoft is responsible . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Triage vulnerabilities with the Vulnerability Remediation Agent, now in public preview

As automation and AI accelerate the pace of vulnerability discovery, the window between disclosure and exploitation continues to shrink. For IT and security teams, the challenge is no longer just find . . .

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

AutoJack: How a single page can RCE the host running your AI agent

In this article Why we are looking at agent frameworks What is AutoGen Studio The AutoJack chain at a glance Anatomy of the chain Issue 1: Origin allowlist that the agent itself defeats Issue 2: Auth . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

New Forrester study shows customers who unified with Microsoft Security benefited from 124% ROI

Across many industries, organizations are unifying security and putting AI agents to work. Security teams are utilizing agents that reason, decide, and act on their behalf, under their governance. At . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

From package to postinstall payload: Inside the Mastra npm supply chain compromise

In this article Attack chain overview Discovery and initial indicators Dependency injection: the poisoned package.json Typosquat analysis: easy-day-js Staged delivery pattern Obfuscation and payload a . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Crypto Clipper uses Tor and worm-like propagation for persistence and control

In this article Attack chain overview Mitigation and protection guidance References Learn more Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts identified a Windows-based cryptocurrency cl . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Beyond the benchmark: Advancing security at AI speed

In this article From the lab into the pipeline This month’s set of discoveries Beyond the headline: What the engineering work taught us Where we go next Defense at AI speed Learn more Every vulnerabil . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2026 Extended Detection and Response Platforms Wave™ report

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection and Response Platforms, Q2 2026 . Microsoft ranked the highest of any vendor evaluated in the . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Blog

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 is now rolling out to Microsoft 365 E3 and Office 365 E3

Starting today, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 is rolling out to customers with Microsoft 365 E3/G3 and Office 365 E3/G3 licenses, with rollout expected to complete by Fall 2026. For securit . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Microsoft Defender XDR Blog

Securing the invisible workforce

Non-human identities are now the majority of the identity estate in most enterprises. Service principals access organizational resources across SharePoint, Azure, and Microsoft 365, Service accounts r . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

Modernize your data with Azure Storage: Plan and migrate with confidence

Enterprise storage migrations are rarely just about copying data. They are about protecting business continuity, maintaining performance, managing cost, and giving teams confidence when terabytes or p . . .

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Auto-Generated Rubric Evaluators: Building Context-Aware Evaluators for AI Agents

Authors: Shuo Qiu, Sydney Lister, Ilya Matiach, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, José Santos, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong Why Your Agent Needs a Task-Specific Evaluator Picture a cus . . .

Thursday, June 18, 2026

How to Score a User Simulator: Introducing USR-8

Authors: José Santos, Shuo Qiu, Morteza Ziyadi User simulators have become a standard part of the agent-building toolkit: cheaper than real-user pilots, faster than scripted dialogues, and the only wa . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Build an Automated SLA Risk Agent with Routines in Microsoft Foundry

What if your support team could start every morning with an AI-generated summary of tickets most likely to breach SLA? This tutorial shows you how to build exactly that: a grounded agent in Microsoft . . .

Wednesday, June 17, 2026