Microsoft will remove the lightweight Admin app from Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft365.com by October 2026, ending an easy way for very small businesses to handle basic Microsoft 365 tasks without changing apps. The transition has already begun: new customers will no longer receive the app pre-installed or pinned, while existing users can continue accessing it temporarily.

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Microsoft has postponed the retirement of the Outlook for Windows Usage Report in the Exchange admin center from September to a window running from early to late November. Administrators will need to use the Microsoft 365 admin center for Outlook usage data after the automatic change.

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The latest version of the Brave browser, 1.94, introduces a feature called 'Email Aliases' that allows users to generate disposable email addresses when signing up to a new service. [...]

PaperCut has released emergency patches for an actively exploited zero-day affecting every version of its NG and MF print-management platforms. Administrators should immediately isolate internet-facing Application Servers, then install the patched v25 or v26 builds and investigate systems for signs of compromise.

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Microsoft has delayed Teams Facilitator’s meeting question-detection and answer feature yet again, moving it from an expected June launch to a targeted release in November and worldwide general availability in mid-December. The AI assistant is intended to detect unanswered questions or knowledge gaps during meetings, but Microsoft has not explained why the rollout keeps moving.

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Microsoft is retiring Exchange Web Services (EWS), the older SOAP-based API that applications use to read and write mailbox data in Exchange Online. During the transition window—from phased disablement in October 2026 until full retirement on April 1, 2027—EWSAllowedAppIDs is the temporary gatekeeper: a tenant-wide list of Microsoft Entra application IDs (the client IDs of app registrations) that may still call EWS when you set EwsEnabled to $true. Only listed apps keep access while you migrate; after April 2027, the list no longer matters because EWS is blocked outright. This article shows how to test that gate before you depend on it.

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Microsoft is adding a pop-out call window to the Teams web client in October 2026, giving browser users a simpler way to multitask during meetings. At the same time, Microsoft will end Teams’ Google Workspace calendar synchronization after October 2026, requiring organizations to prepare users for a replacement workflow.

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Salesforce and Anthropic are testing Claudeforce, a Claude CoWork plugin that lets sellers query, update, and act on live Salesforce data without opening the CRM. The pilot includes 37 ready-made sales skills, while an open beta is planned for September—bringing enterprise CRM workflows into an AI interface that could replace much of the traditional Salesforce screen.

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A lightly used Microsoft Loop workspace has grown to 87.88 GB inside its SharePoint Embedded container, despite holding mostly text and a few images. The unexpected 0.64 GB increase over two working days highlights a serious visibility problem for Microsoft 365 administrators: Loop reports the storage consumed, but provides few clues about what is using it.

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LibreOffice 26.8 is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, adding major Writer, Calc, Impress, and compatibility improvements while maintaining The Document Foundation’s deliberate decision to exclude generative AI. The suite continues to process documents locally, work without an internet connection, and collect no telemetry.

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Google is upgrading Gemini Live from a voice chatbot into an assistant that can carry out multi-step work across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web. The rollout adds background tasks through Spark, spoken daily briefings, voice-controlled inbox management, and Personal Intelligence that uses connected app data and past conversations to provide more relevant answers.

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OpenAI has made ChatGPT Business Premium seats generally available, giving organizations a way to remove the Standard plan’s five-hour usage ceiling for selected employees instead of upgrading an entire workspace. Premium costs $100 per user per month with annual billing or $125 month to month, while Standard remains $20 or $25 respectively.

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Microsoft has made Intelligent Discovery in Microsoft Marketplace generally available worldwide, giving customers a conversational way to find, compare, and evaluate cloud, AI, and agent solutions. Instead of starting with a product name or keyword, buyers can describe a business problem in natural language; Microsoft says preview users were 68% more likely to find a suitable solution and proceed toward purchase.

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ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks can now respond to activity in connected services instead of waiting for a fixed time. ChatGPT Work users can configure automations for new Gmail messages, Slack posts, and supported GitHub events, turning the feature from a reminder tool into a basic event-driven assistant.

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Microsoft’s August 2026 Excel update makes Copilot more useful for investigating and reshaping workbooks, adding tools for change history, chart and PivotTable creation, and Python-based analysis. The release is available across Windows, Mac, and the web, but most of the new functionality requires a Copilot license, with Python support initially limited to Excel Insiders.

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Microsoft has delayed Microsoft Whiteboard’s retirement, giving personal users and enterprise administrators more time after Whiteboard migration tooling was due to end August 22. The revised schedule moves the main cutoff to September 25, while permanent deletion and standalone-app changes now happen later in October and November.

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Microsoft will retire Excel’s Exchange Connector in April 2027, potentially breaking workbooks that pull mail or calendar data from Exchange. Workbook authors must manually migrate to Microsoft’s replacement connectors, while users on Office 2021 and older perpetual versions may need to upgrade because the replacements are limited to Microsoft 365 and Office 2024.

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Mirage2FA has potentially compromised 4,532 organization email domains between 2024 and 2026, using phishing-as-a-service infrastructure to steal Microsoft 365 credentials, 2FA codes, and active session cookies. The campaign’s estimated 48% compromise rate shows why conventional MFA may not protect accounts when attackers proxy the entire sign-in process.

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Microsoft’s `Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer` cmdlet can move the Exchange calendar event while leaving the Teams online meeting tied to the former organizer. A new Microsoft Graph and PowerShell workaround now recreates the Teams meeting for the replacement owner, building on the earlier discovery that the organizer-transfer cmdlet leaves Teams links behind.

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