As 2026 begins, we’ve gathered the most impactful updates across Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Fabric, and SharePoint, paired with expert insights and resources to help you start the year with momentum. Whether you’re planning your roadmap, optimizing workflows, or exploring new AI capabilities, this edition gives you a clear, actionable view of what’s set to shape your organization in the year ahead.
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This session cuts through the volume of updates to focus on what IT and business leaders actually need to know, highlighting the shifts that will influence planning, investment decisions, and digital roadmaps as organizations look toward 2026.
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The latest Teams updates focus on making meetings more intelligent, collaboration more fluid, and administration more controlled. New AI-powered enhancements improve meeting summaries and follow-ups, while refinements to search and collaboration reduce friction during day-to-day work.
On the admin side, Microsoft continues to strengthen security and governance, giving organizations more oversight as Teams becomes increasingly central to hybrid work and cross-functional collaboration.
Take a closer look at what’s new in Teams
Microsoft 365 Copilot continues to mature with updates designed to reduce context switching and speed up execution across apps. Improvements in how Copilot carries context between Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams make it easier to move from insight to action without restarting prompts or workflows.
These updates also reflect Microsoft’s push toward positioning Copilot as an active participant in work, rather than a passive assistant, especially as agent-based experiences continue to expand.
Take a look at Copilot’s latest productivity enhancements
Viva Amplify introduces a campaign-based approach to internal communications, bringing together SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook into a single experience. Rather than publishing content in isolation, communicators can now plan, launch, and measure messages across multiple channels from one place.
This approach helps organizations deliver more consistent messaging while gaining clearer insight into reach and engagement across the employee audience.
Learn how SharePoint and Viva are evolving together
Featured Resource:
Modern intranets require more than updated branding or navigation. This toolkit provides a structured approach to planning a SharePoint intranet, covering information architecture, governance, content ownership, and long-term sustainability.
It’s designed to help teams move beyond ad-hoc site creation and build an intranet that supports communication, collaboration, and adoption at scale.
Featured Articles
Copilot Studio is expanding what organizations can build with AI, moving from simple conversational bots to agents that can reason, act, and operate across systems. This article explores how custom agents are evolving, what makes them different from traditional chatbots, and how organizations can approach design and governance responsibly.
It also highlights practical considerations for teams looking to introduce autonomous agents without creating operational or security risk.
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