07-July-2026 Below you will find a collection of news published yesterday. This news consists of Microsoft’s Roadmap when it is updated it will be below with items. Then there will be a section with the message center, if there is anything new there, this will be automatically included. And it contains a piece from blogs that I follow myself and would like to share with you. If I miss something in the blogs that do have an RSS feed, please let me know.
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The blogs of this day are:
Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2026-07-07
Additions : 3
Updates : 14
More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Organization evaluation score for apps and agentsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC1218713Status:stayInformed | Updated July 6, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Today, admins must manually review trust and compliance information for Teams apps and agents to determine whether they meet their organization’s security, privacy, and compliance requirements. To make this process more scalable and consistent, Teams will introduce a centralized evaluation experience. Admins will define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will generate a score and detailed evaluation report for each app and agent based on those requirements. This will help organizations make faster, more consistent approval decisions. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 532720. [When this will happen] Targeted release/Preview: We will begin rollout in late February 2026 and expect to complete by the end of March 2026. [How this will affect your organization] Who is affected: Admins who manage apps and agents in the Teams admin center. What will happen:
[What you can do to prepare] No action is required. This feature will be available automatically in the Teams admin center. Admins may choose to review their approval workflows once the feature becomes available. [Compliance considerations] No compliance considerations identified. Review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||||||
| (Updated) Change meeting organizer via PowerShell cmdlet in Exchange OnlineCategory:Exchange OnlineNummer:MC1227623Status:stayInformed | Updated July 6, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] We’re adding a new PowerShell cmdlet that lets administrators change the organizer of an existing meeting or meeting series in Exchange Online. This feature supports continuity when a meeting owner changes roles, goes on leave, or is offboarded—removing the need to recreate long‑running series. After the transfer, the new organizer can update meeting properties, and attendees within the tenant won’t need to re‑RSVP. A future release will enable users to change the organizer directly in Modern Calendar experiences in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook, and Teams. For user‑initiated transfers, the new organizer must accept the meeting before the transfer completes. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 554937. [When this will happen] General Availability
[How this affects your organization] Who is affected:
What will happen:
No action is required. The feature will roll out automatically. To prepare:
[Compliance considerations] No compliance considerations identified. Review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||||||
| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: New chat sections for muted and meeting chatsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC1269864Status:planForChange | Updated July 6, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Microsoft Teams is introducing two new system chat sections called Muted chats and Meeting chats. These sections allow users to organize their chat and channels list by grouping muted conversations and meeting chats into dedicated sections that users can turn on or off. The new Meeting chats section will replace the Meeting chats filter, that was previously available at the top of the chat and channel list. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 559605. [When this will happen]
[How this affects your organization] Who is affected
What will happen Users may see up to two new system sections in their Teams chat and channels list:
[What you can do to prepare] No admin action is required. You may want to:
[Compliance considerations] No compliance considerations identified. Review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||||||
| Copilot Notebooks: Suggested artifacts for faster content creationCategory:Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1411727Status:planForChange | [What and Why:] Copilot Notebooks will intelligently recommend relevant artifacts based on your Microsoft 365 knowledge and the content in your notebook, helping you move work forward faster without leaving the notebook experience. By automatically leveraging existing context and background information, Copilot reduces the need to repeatedly write prompts containing the same details when creating new content from notebook materials. Supported artifact types include Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations. Support for additional artifact types, including PDFs and Pages, will be introduced in a future release. This message is associated with Roadmap ID 566870. [Rollout Schedule:]
[Impact on Your Organization:] Who is affected:
Platforms/Services:
What will happen:
[Action Required/Recommendations:] No action is required. We recommend that you:
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| Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Bullseye routing with User groupsCategory:Dynamics 365 AppsNummer:MC1417473Status:stayInformed | We are announcing Bullseye routing with User groups in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. This feature will reach public preview on July 17, 2026. How does this affect me? This feature enables a tiered assignment strategy that automatically expands the pool of eligible customer service representatives as conversation wait time increases. Rather than assigning from a fixed pool or waiting for overflow rules to trigger, this approach progressively widens availability in concentric rings, starting with the best-fit representatives and expanding outward as needed. Key functionality of this feature includes:
What action do I need to take? This message is for awareness, and no action is required. | ||||||||||||||
| Dynamics 365 Sales – Copy opportunities for repeat dealsCategory:Dynamics 365 AppsNummer:MC1417474Status:stayInformed | We are announcing the ability to use the copy opportunity feature to start a new one in Dynamics 365 Sales. This feature will reach general availability on August 5, 2026. How does this affect me? With the copy opportunity feature, you can duplicate an existing opportunity to quickly create a new one. The new opportunity retains key customer, deal, product, stakeholder, and custom-field information from the source opportunity, including hidden custom fields. Product line items are copied with their quantities and pricing, while inactive products are excluded and recorded in the audit summary. System-generated and outcome-related fields are reset to ensure the copied opportunity starts as a new sales deal. What action do I need to take? This message is for awareness, and no action is required. | ||||||||||||||
| Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Modify and override submitted evaluationsCategory:Dynamics 365 AppsNummer:MC1417483Status:stayInformed | We are announcing the ability to modify and override submitted evaluations in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This feature has reached general availability. How does this affect me? This feature enables Quality Managers to edit and override evaluation results even after they are marked as completed or expired. While completed evaluations remain read-only by default to preserve integrity, supervisors can initiate an Edit action when discrepancies are identified, such as incorrect AI predictions or errors in manual assessments. In edit mode, supervisors can update evaluation responses, adjust scores, and refine comments to reflect an accurate assessment. This ensures that evaluation records represent the final, validated view of agent performance and interaction quality. The capability is available across AI-assisted, AI agent-generated, and manual evaluations, providing a consistent correction experience. To maintain control and governance, only authorized users with supervisory permissions can perform overrides. All changes are tracked through audit signals, including who made the edit and when, and overridden evaluations are clearly flagged. This ensures full transparency for reporting, compliance, and downstream reviews. What action do I need to take? This message is for awareness, and no action is required. | ||||||||||||||
| Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration – Latency Evaluation ChecksCategory:Power PlatformNummer:MC1417563Status:stayInformed | We are announcing the ability to measure response latency as part of evaluation runs to validate performance alongside response quality in Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration. This feature will reach public preview on July 15, 2026. How does this affect me? Latency Evaluation Checks allow makers to validate response time as part of an evaluation run and to measure response latency during the evaluation. Performance metrics are evaluated alongside functional quality, providing a more complete assessment of application behavior. This feature provides the following results for evaluations:
This message is for awareness, and no action is required. | ||||||||||||||
| Secure Boot Office Hours in July for virtualized and OEM environmentsCategory:WindowsNummer:MC1418035Status:stayInformed | What and why If you are an IT admin working with Secure Boot, join two upcoming Office Hours sessions focused on virtualized environments and OEM scenarios to help you prepare for certificate updates. Microsoft engineering teams will be available to answer your questions and provide guidance. Add the sessions to your calendar and attend via the event pages. Can’t attend live? Post your questions in advance and review responses afterward. Rollout schedule Impact on your organization These sessions can help you better understand how Secure Boot certificate updates apply to your environment and what steps to take to maintain trusted boot integrity and avoid potential disruption. Action required We encourage you to join one or both sessions to get answers to your questions and plan for Secure Boot certificate updates. See the links above to attend the events and participate in the discussion with Microsoft experts. | ||||||||||||||
| Windows settings backup policy is becoming a new defaultCategory:WindowsNummer:MC1418203Status:stayInformed | What and why Starting with Windows 11, version 26H2, the default behavior of the Windows settings backup policy will shift from disabled to enabled. Default-on applies only to eligible devices and only when you haven’t explicitly set the policy. Explicit enablement and disablement settings are always honored. Restore behavior is unchanged: it remains admin-controlled and isn’t enabled by default. This change makes backup a baseline resilience capability, so you can restore users’ apps, settings, and Microsoft Store app list easier after a device reset, replacement, or upgrade. You keep full control through Microsoft Intune, Group Policy, or other MDM solutions. Rollout schedule
Impact on your organization Default-on applies only to devices that meet all of the following criteria:
Devices with an explicitly configured backup policy—enabled or disabled—are unaffected. Restore behavior remains admin-controlled and isn’t enabled by default. Users can still turn off backup through the Windows Backup app or Windows settings page. Action required Review your current backup policy state ahead of Windows 11, version 26H2 deployment and decide your intended behavior:
No action is required if your organization is in a DMA region, in a sovereign or restricted cloud environment, or if you have already explicitly configured the backup policy. Additional information | ||||||||||||||
| (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New integration with Adaptive protectionCategory:Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft PurviewNummer:MC791110Status:stayInformed | Updated July 6, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon for Microsoft Purview: We are announcing the public preview of the integration of Adaptive protection with Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) to help you find the right balance to protect against data sabotage while enabling productivity. This new integration leverages DLM features to provide an additional control for Adaptive protection that automatically preserves items deleted by a user with an elevated risk level, so items can be restored if needed. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392839. [When this will happen:] Public preview: We will begin rolling out in late June 2024 (previously early May) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously mid-July). General Availability: We will begin rolling out late October (previously late July) and expect to complete by mid-November 2026 (previously mid-August). [How this will affect your organization:] After the rollout, and after you enable Adaptive protection for your tenant, the retention label and auto-apply policy for data lifecycle management will be automatically created for you. This policy will automatically include elevated risk users identified by Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management solution. If these users delete content from Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, or Microsoft Exchange, a retention label is automatically applied to that content to retain it for 120 days. Retention labels are automatically applied to unlabeled content deleted by these users. When these users are no longer at the elevated risk level, they are automatically removed from the DLM policy, and the system will no longer keep a copy of content they delete. Any content copies previously retained when the user had an elevated risk level will be kept for the 120 days as specified by the retention label. Unlike other retention labeling scenarios, users do not see the retention label, and you do not need to create or manage the retention label or policy. At this time, you can’t change the retention period or assign different policies based on the different risk levels, or for different locations. The single retention label and auto-labeling policy for your tenant is not visible in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. [What you need to do to prepare:] Learn more: Learn about retention policies & labels to retain or delete | Microsoft Learn If you’re using Adaptive protection and want to automatically retain content deleted by elevated risk users, follow these steps to turn on this new integration.
If you’re not using Adaptive protection already, turn on Adaptive protection and the new feature will be enabled along with Adaptive protection. This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate. |