MC1444064: Introduction of Macro Region Geography-Based Environment Provisioning

Summary We are announcing the ability to create multiple budget drafts for what-if analysis in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This feature will reach public preview on August 31, 2026. Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1454005 Last Modified: August 13, 2026 Category: Message Center Tags: New feature Status: Launched Products & Platforms: Dynamics 365 Apps How …

Summary We are announcing the ability to enable self-service site ownership transfer in Power Pages. This feature will reach general availability on September 15, 2026. Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1454011 Last Modified: August 13, 2026 Category: Message Center Tags: New feature Status: Launched Products & Platforms: Power Platform How does this affect me? This …

Summary We are announcing the ability to enrich insights with Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts in Dynamics 365 Sales. This feature will reach general availability on August 30, 2026. Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1454022 Last Modified: August 13, 2026 Category: Message Center Tags: New feature Status: Launched Products & Platforms: Dynamics 365 Apps How does …

Summary We are announcing the addition of intraday performance reports in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This new report will reach public preview on August 28, 2026. Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1454032 Last Modified: August 13, 2026 Category: Message Center Tags: New feature Status: Launched Products & Platforms: Dynamics 365 Apps How does this affect …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance is adding a diagnostic to detect corruption in source document budget control tracking. Finance teams can identify affected budget-controlled documents before running repair activities, making remediation easier and more targeted. The feature helps uncover orphaned tracking records or broken relieving relationships and supports use of existing budget control data maintenance tools. …

Summary Dynamics 365 Commerce eCommerce Platform is being modernized as part of Commerce version 10.0.49. The updated SDK will support Node.js 22 and Node.js 24, with Node.js 24 recommended. The online SDK will support TypeScript 4.2.4 only; TypeScript 3.x is no longer supported. Teams that build or maintain Commerce eCommerce solutions should upgrade to SDK …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance is gaining a new fixed asset transfer capability between legal entities, including the option to process the transfer as a disposal. The feature adds previewing of source and destination asset financial details and automates related acquisition and disposal postings. A separate enhancement improves the process for correcting fixed asset reporting currency …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance will improve performance when selecting bridge transactions during the bank clearance process. Finance teams working in bank clearance should see faster loading and response times, especially with large transaction volumes. The change is intended to reduce delays at period close and keep the transaction selection experience responsive as volumes grow. This …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance is adding pre-retrieval filtering for bridge transactions in the bank clearance process to improve transaction selection performance. Users will be able to narrow results by bank account, vendor/customer account, payment reference, check number, and date range before transactions load. The change is intended to reduce data loading time and improve responsiveness, …

Summary Microsoft is adding built-in archiving for historical load and work data in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to help improve database health. The feature supports archiving/removal of records from several warehouse/load-related tables, including load, shipment, work, and work inventory/transaction tables. This is a new capability for Finance and Operations Apps / Dynamics 365 Supply …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance will expand financial tag population into additional payment and bank reconciliation scenarios. The change affects customer and vendor payment journals generated from payment proposals, related account and offset account lines, and advanced bank reconciliation matching rule actions. Financial tags will continue to follow transaction defaulting rules; default values on primary data …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance is adding support for transferring fixed assets between legal entities. The feature includes previews of acquisition cost, accumulated depreciation, and net book value before transfer. It can automatically create the destination asset or use an existing asset, and posts acquisition/disposal transactions across source and destination entities. Reporting currency adjustment enhancements are …

What are the best 4-month medical assistant programs for under 3000 dollars? Stop trying to hire more RNs. Discover how a 4-month, $2,500 training model and AI-powered sensors are actually solving the massive nursing shortage today. Key Takeaways What: Accelerated 4-month vocational training and AI-driven workflow automation. Why: To bridge the 1.1 million nurse deficit …

How can I automate my pull request reviews to stop software regressions? Tired of AI-generated bugs? Learn how context-aware reviews cut production defects by 48% and reduce review time by 70% for over 15,000 organizations. Key Takeaways What: AI-powered code review and automated debugging systems. Why: These tools reduce production defects by 48% and slash …

Summary Dynamics 365 Project Operations is adding support for calculating revenue recognition separately from billing milestones for fixed-price project contract lines. Organizations can define a dedicated contract line value and use it to calculate revenue recognition based on stand-alone selling price or project effort. This change is intended to improve financial accuracy and help align …

Summary Dynamics 365 Project Operations is adding an option to calculate project revenue recognition using cost estimates instead of EAC. The change is intended to produce steadier percentage-of-completion calculations, clearer project financial reporting, and improved audit traceability. This is a feature announcement for Dynamics 365 Apps / Project Operations users; it is not a tenant-wide …

Summary Dynamics 365 Project Operations is gaining the ability to match subcontractor vendor invoices to project actuals for more accurate invoice validation and cost tracking. The feature is aimed at procurement managers, project accountants, and accounts payable users working in finance and operations apps integrated with ERP. It reduces manual reconciliation, improves exception handling, and …

Summary Dynamics 365 Project Operations is gaining support for the beginning balances feature, which lets organizations define and import opening balances during migration from legacy systems. The feature preserves historical project cost, budget, and progress data so financial continuity is maintained after cutover. This is primarily relevant for implementations, upgrades, or migrations into Project Operations. …

Summary Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management will add a feature to enforce same-batch selection for raw materials used in production and batch orders. The feature helps ensure consumed raw materials come from a single batch, improving traceability and supporting quality-controlled manufacturing scenarios. Product designers and production engineers can set the rule at the released-product level …

Summary Dynamics 365 Contact Center is adding voice biometrics for caller authentication, including voice enrollment and verification. The feature integrates with Copilot Studio voice agents and supports both human-to-AI and human-to-human call flows. Administrators can enable and configure the feature in Customer Service admin center for the organization. The solution includes optional OTP and knowledge-based …

Summary We are announcing the ability to archive project cost actuals with long-term retention in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This feature will reach public preview on September 11, 2026. Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1453569 Published: 8/12/2026 Updated: 8/12/2026 Severity: Normal Category: Stay informed Tags: New feature Status: Launched Products & Platforms: Dynamics 365 Apps …

Summary Dynamics 365 Sales is adding support for custom risk criteria in the Sales Opportunity Agent. Admins can create custom risk entries in the agent’s risk configuration area. The custom risk criteria can be refined for the business using natural language instructions. This is an informational update with no required admin action. Microsoft 365 Message …

Summary Windows 11, version 23H2 Enterprise and Education editions will stop receiving monthly security and non-security preview updates after the announced end-of-updates date. The message is a reminder to identify devices still running Windows 11 23H2 in enterprise or education environments and plan an upgrade path. Microsoft recommends upgrading eligible devices to Windows 11, version …

Summary Dynamics 365 Sales will gain a new monthly refresh frequency option for opportunities research. Admins can use the new cadence to reduce refresh activity for business areas that do not need frequent updates. Combined with multi-agent setup, different refresh frequencies can be configured for different business lines. Microsoft states this is an awareness notice …

Summary Microsoft is adding on-behalf-of ordering support for Microsoft Entra External ID in Dynamics 365 Commerce. This enables customer service representatives, distributors, and sales agents to place orders on behalf of customers in B2B purchasing scenarios. The change supports B2B customers migrating to EEID without losing sales-assisted ordering workflows. No admin configuration or immediate action …

Summary Microsoft has released new updates for Microsoft 365 Apps across Current Channel, Monthly Enterprise Channel, and Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel. Organizations using Office CDN automatic updates should not need to take any action. If updates are managed directly, admins can download the latest build and begin deployment. Review the linked release notes for channel-specific version …

Summary We are announcing the ability to support subscription billing through project fee journal functionality for production and stocked deployment scenarios in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This feature will reach general availability on September 11, 2026. Published: 8/11/2026 ID: MC1452771 Severity: Normal Category: Stay Informed Service: Dynamics 365 Apps Tags: New feature How does this …

Summary Microsoft has released the August 2026 Windows security update for all supported Windows versions. The update includes monthly quality and servicing stack improvements, plus Windows 11 version 25H2 changes related to Secure Boot certificate targeting. A limited number of hotpatch-enabled devices will automatically receive a standalone August 2026 security update after the hotpatch package …

Summary Microsoft Purview Information Protection will increase auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 to 500,000 files per tenant per day. Existing server-side auto-labeling policies targeting SharePoint and OneDrive will automatically benefit from the higher capacity. This should help organizations label and protect more stored content, improving coverage and compliance readiness for Microsoft 365 …

Summary The Other Features page in the Exchange admin center will be retired between September 2026 and February 2027 to simplify Exchange administration. Its links remain accessible via their own Microsoft admin portals. No Exchange Online functionalities will be removed. Administrators should update related documentation and bookmarks accordingly. Published: 8/11/2026 Message Center ID: MC1452374 Severity: …

Summary Power Platform admin center is gaining granular Copilot credit consumption tracking for both agents and users within an environment. Admins will be able to set per-user capacity limits and apply PAYG consumption caps across workloads. Usage indicators will help identify when consumption is nearing or exceeding limits, supporting anomaly detection and trend tracking. Microsoft …

Summary Microsoft is moving management of Teams Android devices from Teams admin center to the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Eligible online devices will be automatically updated to the minimum required Teams Admin Agent version to support the transition. Offline or long-signed-out devices may not be automatically updated or manageable in PMP unless admins update …

Summary Microsoft is moving management of Teams Android devices from the Teams admin center to the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Eligible certified Teams Android devices will be automatically updated to the minimum required Teams Admin Agent version to support the new management path. End-of-support Android devices may not receive the required update and may …

Can a toddler really cause a whole plane to be cancelled if they won’t wear a seatbelt? Think it was just a tantrum? Learn how a 12:30 a.m. curfew and mandatory paperwork resets turned a child’s seatbelt refusal into a cancelled Porter flight. Key Takeaways What: Porter Airlines cancelled flight PD444 from Victoria to Toronto. …

Is there a nationwide cellular outage today, or is it just my Verizon phone? Verizon’s outage made it look like AT&T and T-Mobile were down too. Learn about “phantom outages” and why a simple restart is the only way to fix your service. Key Takeaways What: A major Verizon voice outage blocked nationwide calls for …

Summary Microsoft Purview adaptive scopes will gain lifecycle status evaluation controls so admins can choose whether active, inactive, and soft-deleted recipients and site owners are included in scope membership. New adaptive scopes will evaluate only active recipients and site owners by default; inclusion of inactive or soft-deleted entries will require explicit configuration. Existing adaptive scopes …

Summary Multimodal capture in Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks is expanding to the OneNote app for Android. Eligible users can record audio transcription, capture images, and take typed notes in a single session, then have Copilot generate a structured Copilot Page saved to their selected notebook. The change applies to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot …

Summary SharePoint Online is getting a new report in the SharePoint admin center that shows item-level exposure through the special SharePoint groups “Everyone” and “Everyone except external users.” SharePoint Advanced Management and SharePoint administrators can use the report to find specific files and items that are broadly shared across SharePoint and OneDrive. The report is …

Summary Microsoft Entra is changing MFA registration so password-only users can register a passkey or passwordless sign-in as their first method. The initial methods covered include synced passkeys, Microsoft Entra passkeys on Windows, and FIDO2 security keys, with broader support coming later for Windows Hello for Business, macOS Platform SSO, and Microsoft Authenticator passwordless sign-in. …

Summary Microsoft Entra will treat Windows Hello for Business and macOS Platform SSO as standalone MFA factors in supported authentication scenarios. Users authenticating with WHfB or macOS PSSO can satisfy supported step-up authentication, Authentication Strength, and sign-in frequency requirements without registering an additional passkey. Organizations using Conditional Access Authentication Strength policies should review whether WHfB …

Summary Viva Learning’s existing Copilot experience is being replaced by Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Users who click the Copilot button in Viva Learning will be redirected to Learning Agent, and the old side-by-side Copilot experience will no longer be available. Viva Learning licensed users will continue to see the Copilot button, and users …

Summary If your websites or applications do not use unload event handlers (unload), the impact described below does not apply and no action is required. Microsoft Edge is changing the default behavior of the web platform unload event as part of the ongoing retirement of unload event handlers. Today, unload event handlers are allowed by …