MC1532253 Enhanced Copilot and AI controls for meetings

On October 27, 2026, the government of the Republic of Cuba announced that the country will remain on daylight saving time instead of ending it as scheduled on November 1, 2026. Clocks will not be set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on November 1. Cuba will remain at UTC-04:00 without interruption until November 7, …

We are announcing evaluation for automation flows in Copilot Studio. This feature reached general availability on October 15, 2026. Message ID: MC1531903 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Microsoft Copilot (Power Platform) Tag: New feature How does this affect me? This feature enables you to evaluate automation quality with the same structured approach used for agent …

We are announcing the ability to generate a custom grader in Copilot Studio. This feature reached general availability on October 15, 2026. Message ID: MC1531924 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Microsoft Copilot (Power Platform) Tag: New feature How does this affect me? This feature enables you to create a custom grader tailored to a specific …

We are announcing the ability to create, save, manager, discover, and reuse custom grades from a central library in Copilot Studio. This feature will reach general availability on November 15, 2026. Message ID: MC1531932 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Microsoft Copilot (Power Platform) Tag: New feature How does this affect me? This feature enables you …

With database-level managed identity in Azure SQL Database, you can use a user-assigned managed identity for each database to query files in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 through external tables and OPENROWSET. You can authenticate these queries without storing shared access signature (SAS) tokens or relying on a shared server-level identity. …

Agent status evaluation warnings are now generally available in Copilot Studio as of October 15, 2026. Message ID: MC1532071 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Microsoft Copilot (Power Platform) Tag: New feature How does this affect me? Makers will automatically see warnings in the Review panel when an agent has never been evaluated, or if its …

We are announcing the Evaluation Viewer role for Microsoft Copilot Studio. This feature reached general availability on October 15, 2026. Message ID: MC1532073 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Microsoft Copilot (Power Platform) Tag: New feature How does this affect me? The Evaluation Viewer role enables users to review evaluation results and related information without requiring …

On November 30, 2026, record-level copresence in model-driven apps will have reached end of support. Message ID: MC1532182 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: Power Apps Tag: Retirement How does this affect me? Users will no longer see who else is working on the record or have access to a presence card. This change does not …

Summary Microsoft Defender XDR’s CallActivityEvents table enables security teams with Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 to investigate suspicious Microsoft Teams calls and meetings by analyzing activities, initiators, organizers, and related messages. Available worldwide from November 2026, it integrates with advanced hunting, event streaming API, and Microsoft Sentinel for enhanced threat detection. Message ID: MC1532241 …

Summary Microsoft Teams will add pinch-to-zoom on shared screens using touchpads, enhancing visibility of small text and details. This feature rolls out worldwide in mid to late November 2026, enabled by default in all meetings. Organizations should update sharing policies and inform users; no compliance issues identified. Message ID: MC1532242 Published: Oct 30, 2026 Service: …