Microsoft updates
We know its difficult for you to keep up with the raft of changes and innovations that come from Microsoft across all their solutions. That’s why every month we highlight the changes that are most important to your business.
October 2024
Copilot updates
- Chat & collaborate with Copilot agents in SharePoint
Productivity updates
- New features in SharePoint Advanced Management
Azure updates
- Extra discount on Linux VMs until March 2025
Security updates
- Enable MFA for your tenant before October 15, 2024
September 2024
Copilot updates
- Microsoft Copilot to update enterprise data protection
Security updates
- CAPTCHA verification for anonymous meeting participants in Teams
Azure updates
- October deadline for Azure MFA
August 2024
Copilot updates
- New scheduled prompts feature
- Copilot coaching has launched
Productivity updates
- Location updates enhance hybrid working
- New dynamic watermarks help document control
Azure updates
- GPT -4o launches
Security updates
- Unlicensed OneDrive Accounts archived
- Conditional access policies now live in eligible tenants
July 2024
Copilot updates
- Copilot ‘catch up’ feature launched
- Extended availability for M365 licences
- From pdf to ppt with the click of a button
365 updates
- Boost adoption with Teams Premium usage report
Security updates
- Document control made easier with internal link expirations
Azure updates
- Entra ID licence changes for MTO
June 2024
Copilot updates
- Copilot agents launched to support your teams
- Copilot dashboard available at no extra cost
365 updates
- Use new ‘archive’ feature in SharePoint for inactive sites
Azure updates
- Real-time intelligence comes to Microsoft Fabric
May 2024
Copilot updates
- Azure WAF and Azure Firewall integrations in Copilot for Security
- Interact with Copilot directly in Outlook
365 updates
- Changes to M365, O365 and Teams licencing
- Classic Teams goes end of life this year
Security updates
- Granular access controls now live in Endpoint Privilege Management
Azure updates
- Public preview for Microsoft Graph in Azure Bicep now available
April 2024
Copilot updates
- New Copilot Adoption Score
- Feature release: Intelligent call recap
365 updates
- Product update: Teams licences are now purchased separately
- Feature release: Queues app in Teams
Security updates
- Feature release: Insider Risk in Conditional Access
Azure updates
- Product launch: Azure Verified Modules
March 2024
- New service plan for Copilot 365 customers
- Copilot for 365 in Teams chat on mobile
- More unified cross-platform endpoint management
- Updated labels for external participants in meetings
- The new Microsoft Planner app in Microsoft Teams
- Release of In-Person Events, including Hybrid RSVPing
- Microsoft Azure Information Protection Plan 1 end of sale
February 2024
- Copilot for 365 now available for companies of all sizes
- Security considerations for deploying Copilot
- Copilot dashboard for Viva insights
- Pricing for NFP customers has been launched
- Intune audit logs expiry changes
- Block users from joining externally hosted Teams meetings
January 2024
- New Intune experience makes device management even easier
- New Teams analytics makes managing external access easier
- License changes announced for NFP customers
- Copilot for Azure has launched in preview
- Worried about changes to Terraform? Try OpenTofu
December 2023
- Conditional Access policies will be added to Microsoft managed tenants
- Microsoft Entra ID now supports more device bound passkeys
- Authenticator prompts that pose a risk will now be suppressed
- SharePoint archiving is now easier in the admin centre
- Users are being encouraged to create channels instead of teams
