Changes Microsoft announces – page 49

New and changed items from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and Azure Updates.

ChangeListStatusKey dateMicrosoft updatedVersions
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Indonesia CentralAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Retirement: Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for PrometheusAzure Updates–
Retirement
31 March 20271
Retirement: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will retire on March 31, 2029Azure Updates–
Retirement
31 March 20291
Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in South IndiaAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
PowerPoint: Create and Edit images with the model of your choiceMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentMay 20261
Microsoft Viva: Satisfaction Rate Metric for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot DashboardMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedMarch 20261
Microsoft Teams: share file in chat with external usersMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedNovember 20251
Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Contextual nudges on address bar offering help summarizing webpages.Microsoft 365 roadmapLaunchedOctober 20261
Outlook: View, edit & share Copilot Pages with Outlook for AndroidMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentJuly 20261
Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2026Azure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
SharePoint: Entra B2B integration for external sharing in OneDrive & SharePointMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentApril 20261
Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent UpdatesMicrosoft 365 roadmapRolling outMarch 20261
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPointMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedFebruary 20261
Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot settings – Optimize viewMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedMarch 20261
Microsoft Purview: DSPM data risk assessments: item-level investigation & remediationMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedMarch 20261
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection - Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data ExplorerMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentAugust 20261
Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 BackupMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedApril 20261
Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with private endpointsAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Public Preview: Blue-green agent pool upgrade in AKSAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: Fabric Mirroring integration for Azure Database for MySQLAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: Azure SQL Managed Instance change event streamingAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: Custom time zone support for pg_cron via cron.timezone in Azure Database for PostgreSQLAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: PostgreSQL migration service supports compatible EDB workloads into Azure Database for PostgreSQLAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: PostgreSQL migration service supports for Google AlloyDB into Azure Database for PostgreSQLAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: Online migration now uses the pgoutput pluginAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot ConnectorMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedDecember 20251
Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and MeetingsMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedFebruary 20261
Outlook: Copilot Pages – View, edit & share in Outlook MobileMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedMarch 20261
SharePoint: Pages - Heading levels for web partsMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedApril 20241
Microsoft 365 app: Catch Up Improvements on WebMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedJanuary 20241
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenariosMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedDecember 20251
Generally Available: Container network metrics filtering for AKSAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Public Preview: AI Agent for container networking troubleshootingAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: AKS managed GPU metrics in Azure MonitorAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: Cross-cluster networking in Azure Kubernetes Fleet ManagerAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Generally Available: Azure Container Storage v2.1.0 now with Elastic SAN integration and on demand installationAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: Container network logs in AKSAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Generally Available: Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled KubernetesAzure UpdatesLaunchedMarch 20261
Public Preview: Application routing with meshless Istio in AKSAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Application NetworkAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Public Preview: Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry CollectorAzure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create interactive visuals in Copilot PagesMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentApril 20261
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPointMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedDecember 20251
Outlook: Multi-select capability for calendar categoriesMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedOctober 20251
SharePoint: Content Security Policy Control in Tenant AdministrationMicrosoft 365 roadmapLaunchedMarch 20251
Microsoft account sign ins might fail for Microsoft Teams Free and other appsWindows known issuesResolved KB5085516–1
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2026Azure UpdatesIn previewMarch 20261
Retirement: Azure SQL Elastic query - Shard_Map_Manager modeAzure Updates–
Retirement
31 March 20271
Retirement: Azure Sphere will be retired on July 31, 2031Azure Updates–
Retirement
31 July 20311
Outlook: Font Improvements in Outlook for AndroidMicrosoft 365 roadmapIn developmentMay 20261

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