*Members only early access* Welcome to our eighth roundup of 2026. We review what was announced, released, and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in August.
Check out the July blog for lots of content still rolling out this month. If you are an Update Insiders member, take a sneak peek at the latest blog, which is updated throughout the month.
This roundup is part of the monthly series. Bookmark What’s new in Microsoft 365 – it’s refreshed with each month’s highlights.
Here’s a reminder of what the icons mean and the order in which the updates are grouped:
✅ = Available now
🔜 = Coming soon – new updates from the Admin Centre
🕔 = Delayed
🔭 = Coming later – new updates from the M365 Roadmap
🚫 = A feature we are losing
🗞️ = In the news
🎓 = Knowledge
Here are this month’s topics:
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Copilot
🔍 View all Copilot updates.
OneDrive
🔍 View all OneDrive updates.
Outlook
🔍 View all Outlook updates.
PowerPoint, Word and Excel
🔍 View all PowerPoint, Word or Excel updates.
SharePoint
🔍 View all SharePoint updates.
Teams
🔍 View all Teams updates.
Viva
Around Microsoft 365
🔜 Capture audio, images and notes in Copilot Notebooks on Windows
Microsoft is introducing multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks on Windows, letting you record audio, take images and jot notes in a single experience, then use Copilot to generate a structured page of summaries, decisions and action items from what you captured. Capture can be started manually from the OneNote system tray icon, or suggested automatically when a supported browser-based meeting is detected (Zoom, Webex or Google Meet). Captured content is saved to your chosen Copilot Notebook and available across devices. Requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence and the Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed on Windows. For Microsoft 365 Copilot users on OneNote for Windows.
References: MC1405506 and roadmap ID 566322. Due end of August to mid-September 2026.
🔍 View all M365 updates.
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