New Microsoft Graph APIs in public preview can manage Copilot spending policies and cost alerts with PowerShell and support reading credit balances. Supported services and reporting are limited, and balances aren’t reliable yet.
A SharePoint Embedded administrator can now update the PrincipalOwner of user-owned containers. Changing the PrincipalOwner transfers full ownership and prevents the container from being deleted by the previous owner’s account.
Microsoft will retire the Set-FederatedConnectorToggle PowerShell cmdlet, introduced in May 2026, shifting federated Copilot connector management to the Allowed agent types setting in Agent 365.
The tenant control for Graph API access to Teams transcripts is now active. I am testing the new control to access Teams transcripts, including two PowerShell samples for downloading meeting transcripts with and without speaker attribution.
Microsoft has updated Copilot usage reporting across the admin center and Graph API, with faster refresh times, separated agent metrics, and aligned Graph API metrics.
Microsoft is ending the transition from Azure-backed Whiteboards to OneDrive-backed Whiteboards. Users must migrate before 22 August. All non-migrated Whiteboards will be permanently deleted on 5 September 2026. This post covers the timeline, what it means for your users, and how to report Whiteboards still waiting to be migrated.
Microsoft is changing the default visibility of 11 profile card properties starting 24 August 2026. Administrators who want to keep the current configuration must update it manually beforehand.
Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports Domain Exclusion, letting administrators exclude specific domains from web grounding across Copilot and Copilot Chat. The feature is generally available, and the required PowerShell script has been published, along with a guide on configuring exclusions for up to 1,000 domains.
Microsoft added a new SharePoint tenant setting to enable or disable email notifications when a Teams meeting recording is deleted after expiration.
Microsoft has introduced a new plannerTaskChatMessage endpoint in Microsoft Graph. The endpoint allows full management of the new chat-based Planner comments, currently limited to delegated permissions. My post covers eight samples for all key operations.