undergoing major modernization, AI expansion, and retirement of legacy technologies. Key themes include: accelerated Copilot integration across all workloads, SharePoint/OneDrive UX refreshes, Power Platform agentic AI, Teams intelligence upgrades, and critical retirement deadlines for SharePoint Designer and InfoPath. Below is a concise, bullet‑point roundup of the most important news across SharePoint Online, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Teams, Power Pages, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Office 365, and the Power Platform.
SharePoint Online
- SharePoint Designer 2013 reaches end of support on July 14, 2026, with retirement across Microsoft 365 environments beginning immediately. Organizations must migrate remaining workflows to Power Automate.
- InfoPath 2013 and InfoPath Forms Services retire the same day; publishing new forms was already blocked in May 2026. Move to Power Apps or Microsoft Forms.
- Remote Event Receivers tied to Azure ACS are retired; Entra‑registered RERs end July 1, 2027. Replace with SharePoint webhooks or Graph change notifications.
- SPFx July 2026 roadmap introduces SharePoint Copilot Apps, enabling Copilot‑connected experiences built directly on SPFx. Public preview begins July 2026.
Microsoft Teams
- Major intelligence upgrades: Interpreter usage dashboard, IntelliFrame people labels, AI data channel, automatic bot blocking, call queue auto‑recording, and inline search improvements.
- Teams Phone Agent announced—AI‑powered auto attendant integrated with Copilot Studio.
- Live Events and Together Mode retiring, replaced by modern meeting experiences.
- Device ecosystem expands: IntelliFrame People Labels, Android devices in Pro Management, Cisco Zoom Rooms, Crestron Compute GA.
Microsoft 365 / Office 365
- M365 price increases now live: business/frontline/enterprise up ~8–15%, frontline up 25–33%. Annual local currency adjustments begin January.
- Cowork GA with consumption‑based Copilot credits; GPT‑5.5 available in EU data boundary.
- Purview gains automated sensitive‑data remediation via Teams, deletion of inactive OneDrives/mailboxes, enhanced DLP, eDiscovery diagnostics, and certificate‑based RMS authentication.
- OneDrive/SharePoint UX refresh: modern filtering, new Libraries view, Markdown co‑authoring, neutral SharePoint UI theme.
- Copilot improvements: Notebook enhancements, multimodal capture, improved Copilot Answers, People Skills deletion control, deeper analytics.
Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, Dataverse)
- 2026 Release Wave 1 (Apr–Sep 2026) delivers hundreds of features across the platform.
- Agentic AI is the central theme: autonomous agents that build, monitor, fix, and run processes.
- Power Apps: modernized UI becomes default; improved offline/mobile capability; faster search; expanded generative pages.
- Power Automate: self‑healing desktop flows, Copilot Studio‑powered cloud flow actions, enhanced maker collaboration, GA of object‑centric process mining.
- Power Pages: new Security Agent for threat monitoring (phishing, DDoS), deeper AI integration.
- Dataverse: Work IQ + M365 Copilot integration for organization‑specific reasoning; enhanced agent programmability.
- Copilot Studio: deeper integration with M365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Work IQ; easier enterprise agent development.
Copilot Chat
- Copilot Chat gains Notebooks, new vision capabilities, improved reasoning models (Sonnet 5), and expanded analytics.
- Part of the upcoming Copilot Super App (August 2026), merging Copilot Chat, Cowork, and GitHub Copilot.
