major AI‑driven enhancements, security tightening, and platform modernization. Copilot continues expanding across SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and Studio, while Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages ship reliability and governance improvements. SharePoint Online gains live, auto‑refreshing dashboards; Teams retires legacy chat features; Microsoft 365 enforces new security, compliance, and licensing changes; and the Power Platform delivers significant modern control upgrades. Overall, the ecosystem is shifting toward agentic automation, unified Copilot experiences, and stronger data protection.
🔹 SharePoint Online
- Live dashboards — Copilot can now generate interactive HTML dashboards directly from SharePoint lists, Excel, or CSV, auto‑refreshing with underlying data.
- Prompt buttons — Page buttons can now trigger Copilot prompts, enabling workflow automation from any page.
- Restricted content discovery — SharePoint tightens Copilot and Microsoft Search visibility for restricted content.
🔹 Power Automate
- Express mode for agent‑invoked flows — Faster and more reliable execution when flows are triggered by Copilot Studio agents.
- Continuous Access Evaluation rollout — Nearing completion for Dataverse sign‑ins, improving identity security.
🔹 Power Apps
- Data grid modern control GA — Fluent UI‑based grid now generally available with search, sorting, multi‑select, rich column types, and accessibility improvements.
- Modern toggle & checkbox updates — Consistent properties, tooltips, and true read‑only mode.
🔹 Power BI
- No major August 10 announcements surfaced in current sources; however, integration with Copilot‑generated SharePoint dashboards continues to strengthen cross‑platform reporting (inferred from SharePoint dashboard updates).
🔹 Teams
- Retirement of Live Chat & website message relay — Legacy chat experiences are being removed.
- In‑meeting security reporting — Users can now report security concerns directly during meetings.
- Express voice enrollment — Simplified voice profile setup.
🔹 Power Pages
- Hotfix 9.8.7.x — Blocks anonymous wildcard Web API access for system tables, tightening security.
🔹 Copilot Chat & Copilot Studio
- Share Autonomous Agents — Makers can securely share run‑only agents with end users.
- SharePoint lists as knowledge sources — Agents can now reason over structured SharePoint list data.
- Safe sharing enforcement — Detects identity oversharing before publishing.
🔹 Microsoft 365 / Office 365
- Windows 10 feature freeze — No new M365 app features on Windows 10 after Aug 2026; security updates continue until Oct 2028.
- EWS retirement Oct 1, 2026 — Organizations must migrate integrations to Microsoft Graph.
- Copilot governance upgrades — DLP blocks Copilot from processing local files; new ACL support via People Connector.
- Auto‑labeling scale increase — Purview now supports up to 500,000 auto‑labels per tenant per day.
🔹 Power Platform (Overall)
- July/August 2026 feature wave — Modern controls, reliability fixes, and new agentic automation capabilities across Apps, Automate, and Pages.
- High‑impact changes — 24 high‑impact updates across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, including identity, security, and Copilot changes.
