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Exchange Online started enforcing the retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS) on 1 October 2026. Apps that still use EWS can stop working unless you allow-list them, and even then only until 1 April 2027.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Version history is one of the biggest hidden storage costs in SharePoint. The default keeps 500 major versions of every file with no expiry, and every version counts against your quota.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, came into force on 27 July 2026. It delayed the high-risk rules and softened the AI literacy duty, but the Act still applies.
Open the PDF Next stepAI in plain English · Free 10-page guide →General availability of Copilot in SharePoint began rolling out on 30 September 2026. The PowerShell controls used during the preview to opt tenants and sites in or out stop being honoured on 1 November 2026.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Several Windows lifecycle dates land on the same Patch Tuesday, 13 October 2026. The big one for business is the end of Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) Year 1.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →Restricted Content Discovery (RCD) now also removes AI entry points from restricted sites, and from 1 November 2026 it's the main site-level brake for Copilot in SharePoint. It's a brake, not a fix.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Microsoft says usage-based billing "will begin to roll out in Copilot in Q4 CY2026". Everyday Copilot stays in the per-user licence.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Agents become ownerless when the person who created them is deleted. The Agent Registry in the Microsoft 365 admin centre lists every agent available to your tenant and flags the ones without owners.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Three legacy SharePoint Online areas ended in 2026: Add-ins, Azure ACS and SharePoint 2013 workflows (2 April), InfoPath Forms Services (14 July) and SharePoint Alerts (July). Here's how to find what still depends on them, what to replace it with, and how to lock the door.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →At the end of December 2026, Exchange Online disables SMTP AUTH Basic authentication by default for existing tenants. Admins can switch it back on, but Microsoft will announce the final removal date in the second half of 2027.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →From mid-October 2026 Microsoft retires SharePoint's own one-time passcode (SPO OTP). External people who were shared files the old way and have no matching Microsoft Entra B2B guest account will get "access denied" until a guest account exists.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Four changes land in Teams chats with people outside your organisation from October 2026. Most are sensible, but two need a decision, and one has a hard date: Teams user reporting switches on by default on 25 October unless you opt out.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →From 25 October 2026, users can upload advanced Copilot agents by default unless you restrict it. At the same time, Agents become Plugins in Copilot and users can create their own skills.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Microsoft Entra now defaults to passkeys. Microsoft-provided SMS and voice codes retire in 2027, and self-service password reset (SSPR) stops trusting contact details users never registered from early November 2026.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →Microsoft retires Targeted Release for Microsoft 365 services in January 2027, and the act-by date is 31 October 2026. From November you can no longer change who's on it.
Open the PDF Next stepAI in plain English · Free 10-page guide →Between October and December 2026, Copilot data moves and the retention rules that cover it change. Older Teams retention policies stop covering Copilot, new Copilot Pages land in OneDrive, Purview retention for Copilot memory rolls out and the classic DSPM experiences retire.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Microsoft will block new classic publishing sites from 1 March 2027 and make all remaining classic pages read-only from 1 October 2028. Nothing is deleted, but intranets that still run on classic pages need a plan.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →On 3 November 2026 Microsoft retires the preview memberOf operator in Microsoft Entra ID. Dynamic groups, dynamic administrative units and access-package auto-assignment policies that use it stop updating and stay in their last known state.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →From 4 November 2026, users without an Entra admin role can create agent blueprints unless you switch it off, and agents stop getting the right to create their own identities automatically. From 30 October, Copilot connectors follow your allowed agent types.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →From 1 November 2026, AI Builder add-ons retire and new or renewed premium licences stop including AI Builder credits. From 9 November, Microsoft starts enforcing Dataverse storage entitlements for Dataverse-only Dynamics 365 tenants.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →25 features, apps and defaults retire or change before the end of the year. Each row has Microsoft's date and its Message center (MC) number, so you can check it in your own tenant.
Open the PDF Next stepAI in plain English · Free 10-page guide →Microsoft is rolling out a new sharing dialog in SharePoint and OneDrive from early October to the end of November 2026 (MC1454378). Every file and folder gets one main hero link whose audience can be changed after it's been sent.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Publisher left Microsoft 365 on 1 October 2026, and Office updates are now removing it: Current Channel from mid-November, Monthly Enterprise Channel from early December. If it still opens on a PC, use that time to convert the files you need.
Open the PDF Next stepIs your business AI-ready? · Free 8-page check →From 1 December 2026 you can buy Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Business without a Microsoft 365 base licence, today's offers stop selling in CSP, and new Copilot Business bought through CSP comes with pay-as-you-go on. Existing subscriptions don't change.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →From mid-November 2026, new SharePoint and OneDrive agents are built in Microsoft Copilot Agent Builder, not saved as .agent files. Existing .agent files keep working until the end of March 2027, then stop.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Microsoft Ignite runs 17-20 November 2026 in San Francisco and online. For admins, the value comes after the keynotes: separating what is generally available from what is preview, and waiting for the Message center post and Learn page that carry real dates.
Open the PDF Next stepAI in plain English · Free 10-page guide →Copilot only returns what people can already open. Ten checks that find the access nobody meant to give, with where to look and what to fix.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Use the reports you already have to tell busy Copilot seats from quiet ones before your renewal.
Open the PDF Next stepCopilot Ready Kit · £79 · instant download →Two-page PDF product sheets: what each app does, key features, who it's for and pricing.
Governance
See every governance risk before Copilot does.
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Navigation
Turn any image into a clickable navigation hub.
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Navigation
A personalised launchpad for every employee.
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Page experience
Clean tabbed pages, built for users and Copilot.
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Communications
Attention-grabbing popups SharePoint can't do natively.
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Communications
Messages that can't be missed.
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Link management
Branded, trackable short links for Microsoft 365.
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The whole intranet toolkit in one licence.
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