Friday, July 10, 2026

From the ‘What’s New’ Blog

19 new posts across 14 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Blog

Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Starting today, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family of models is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot—in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat and Cowork. OpenAI and Microsoft partnered together to optimize GPT-5.6 for kno . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

Built for Business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot Connects the Tools That Power Your Business

Small businesses don’t run on a single application or tool. Every day, teams move between email, documents, meetings, spreadsheets, customer records, and financial systems – which means that the infor . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

SharePoint Copilot Apps Now in Public Preview: From Intent to Action in Microsoft 365 Copilot

SharePoint Copilot Apps are now in public preview, introducing a new way to bring guided, action-oriented business experiences into Microsoft 365 Copilot. By combining natural language reasoning with . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Microsoft OneDrive Blog

OneDrive Office Hours | July 2026

Get ready for the July 2026 OneDrive Customer Office Hours! This session creates space for open conversation around the latest updates and how they support the way you use your files every day. In thi . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Co-create documents with Copilot in Word for iPad

We’re excited to bring a feature many of you already use on desktop, web, and mobile to Microsoft Word for iPad: the ability to collaborate with Microsoft 365 Copilot directly in your document. What’s . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Exchange Team Blog

Upcoming retirement of OWA Light in Exchange Server

We are announcing our plan to retire and disable the OWA Light experience in Exchange Server in a future update. OWA Light was created for a much earlier era of the web, when browser support, bandwidt . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Microsoft SharePoint Blog

Streamlining business processes with Microsoft 365 - ShareCloud - SharePoint Partner Spotlight

SharePoint and Microsoft 365 have evolved into a powerful platform for building business applications that meet organizations where they already work. With SharePoint as the content, collaboration, an . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Microsoft Forms Blog

Evolving the Copilot experience in Microsoft Forms

We’re excited to introduce a major upgrade to Copilot in Microsoft Forms - now featuring seamless integration with a Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experience. This new experience builds on the familiar C . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Viva Insights Blog

What’s new in Viva Insights

We’re thrilled to announce the recent launch of a variety of new features to better prepare your organization to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot. These tools can equip you with deeper insights about yo . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Power BI Blog

Deep dive into the Shape Map in Power BI (Generally Available)

Discover how the Shape Map visual (Generally Available) in Power BI helps you bring custom geographic boundaries, flexible map formats, and data-driven color formatting into your reports.

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

ITOps Talk Blog

Deployment Stacks: Treating Your Azure Deployments Like Real Resources

Hello Folks! If you have ever come back from vacation to find a “mystery” storage account no one remembers creating, or watched a junior admin nuke a production resource because they clicked the wrong . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Lock Down AKS End to End with Application Gateway for Containers and Managed Cilium L7

Hello Folks! If your AKS cluster looks like most production clusters I have walked through, one of two things is true. Either nobody writes any network policies and every pod can talk to every other p . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Modern Ingress for AKS: Introducing Application Gateway for Containers (AGC)

Hello Folks! This Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 sessions one is for everyone running production workloads on AKS. Jack Stromberg from the Application Gateway product team walked us through the ent . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Blog

Defending the Inbox Against Prompt Injection Attacks

AI assistants are quickly becoming part of everyday work—summarizing emails, drafting responses, triaging requests, and even potentially acting across connected business systems. As email becomes an a . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Microsoft Defender XDR Blog

Microsoft Defender now integrates with Dragos, Forescout, & Armis for OT Security

Co-author(s): Amit Cohen and Hadar ShindlerOperational technology (OT) environments are unlike anything else in cybersecurity. The systems that run our factories, power grids, water treatment plants, . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Foundry IQ is now in Copilot Studio: Bring your enterprise data to every agent conversation

Your AI agents are only as smart as the data they can access Enterprise teams building Copilot agents face a familiar challenge: connecting agents to organizational knowledge without compromising secu . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Before You Ship Your Agent: A Five-Step Path to Evaluations You Can Trust

Authors: Caroline Yeh, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Morteza Ziyadi If you’ve shipped an agent to production, or you’re close, you’ve already made a quiet bet: that the evals you ran during development reflect w . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Introducing ROI for agents in Foundry

Authors: Han Che, Luffy Chen Across Foundry Agent Service and the broader ecosystem of agent frameworks and runtimes, it is becoming easier to build, deploy, evaluate, and optimize production agents. . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Introducing Kimi K2.7 Code in Microsoft Foundry

Modern software engineering rarely happens in a single step, developers must refactor across large codebases, implement features spanning multiple files, and debug issues over long-running sessions. K . . .

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Monday, July 06, 2026