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M365 What's New and Near

January 2026 — kicking off the year with a tour of what's new and what's next across Microsoft 365.

Kick off 2026 with a tour of what’s new and what’s coming soon across Microsoft 365.

We cover:

  • Retirement of classic SharePoint alerts and the path forward with Power Automate.
  • The rename of the Files tab to Shared in Teams.
  • Collaborative meeting notes powered by Loop components.
  • Team-membership security and governance considerations.
  • Rollout of GPT-5.2 and additional Anthropic models in Copilot.
  • Agent mode reaching Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Outlook’s expanded summarization features for long threads.

Plenty of practical tips throughout for admins and end users planning their year.


Recorded for the Cloudy County Community Call — watch on YouTube.

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