Microsoft Viva
New Viva Engage Brand Center
The new Viva Engage Brand Center lets administrators customize the tenant’s logos, brand name, and theme color across the Engage web and mobile apps.
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Microsoft Purview
Purview Audit Logs now include meeting participant details from non-organizer tenants
Microsoft has updated how Teams handles Purview Audit Logs for cross-organization meetings. Compliance administrators in a user’s own organization can now see participation details when that user joins an external meeting, not just administrators in the organization that set up the meeting.
Microsoft 365
New Microsoft 365 data location setting for in-country data storage
Microsoft has added a new setting that lets organizations in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland choose whether to store their Microsoft 365 data in-country or within the EU Data Boundary. The setting is off by default. If not updated, Microsoft may store customer data regionally within the EU Data Boundary rather than only in-country.
Microsoft 365
Retirement of Similarity Checker in Word
Microsoft is retiring the Similarity Checker in Word starting October 2027, removing it from the Microsoft Editor experience. Copilot in Word should not be treated as a replacement for the similarity capability.
Microsoft 365
New Planner Usage Report in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Microsoft has published a new Planner usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, giving administrators visibility into total unique users, daily active user trends, and per-user activity details across Planner Basic and Planner Premium plans.
Microsoft 365
Calendar synchronization between Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace will be retired
Microsoft is retiring the Teams-Google Workspace calendar synchronization in October 2026. If users have calendars synced across both products, this connection will stop working, and previously matched calendars will no longer update automatically.
Microsoft 365
Org Explorer app is not available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
If you cannot find the Org Explorer app in Microsoft 365 Copilot, it may be because of the new copilot.cloud.microsoft domain. The app has not been updated to support it yet.
General
Reminder: Retirement of Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft reminds that Microsoft Publisher will be retired on 1 October 2026. Microsoft 365 users will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher (.pub) files.
Licensing
OneDrive Pay-as-you-go Storage as a new Microsoft billing service
Microsoft is rolling out the new OneDrive Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing service, letting SharePoint administrators extend OneDrive storage beyond a user’s licensed limit, up to 25 TB per account, and pay only for the overage.
Microsoft Copilot
Disabling Copilot Chat and Work IQ Chat for Copilot Premium and Basic users
Microsoft now lets administrators disable Copilot Chat for all users, or just the Work IQ capabilities for Copilot Premium users.