Official Microsoft deployment and setup guides for Intune, Defender, Entra, Copilot, Purview, and Viva, organized by Modern Work practice area, plus what actually changes across Commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD.
Exchange Server SE gets its August security updates while CU1 slips further, and a wave of CVE acknowledgment updates signals an active patch cycle. Engineers also get new Defender for Identity tooling, granular Purview audit logs on the horizon, and a useful roundup of Windows device recovery options.
A lighter week on volume but with two billing and governance changes that warrant immediate attention: Purview DLM moves to a volume-based billing model, and a new admin control lets you permanently purge People Skills data from your tenant.
Passkeys become the default in Entra ID, Entra Backup and Recovery hits GA, and advanced Intune Suite capabilities land in M365 E3/E5 - a dense week for identity hardening and endpoint licensing.
Entra Tenant Governance surfaces shadow tenants, Purview DSPM for AI hits GA, and computer-using agents in Copilot Studio are production-ready — a feature-dense week with meaningful capability unlocks across identity, data, and automation.
Teams Live Events dies June 30 — migrate now. Exchange Server OWA has an active XSS CVE. Meanwhile, Purview ships posture reporting, Copilot Studio goes fully agentic with computer-use GA, and Entra tackles shadow tenant sprawl.
CVE-2026-42897 demands immediate patch action on all on-prem Exchange deployments, while Teams Live Events hits its June 30 retirement deadline — but this week also delivers real capability unlocks across AI agent governance, Purview posture reporting, and Entra multi-tenant visibility.
Global Secure Access hits a GA trifecta this week with iOS client, cloud firewall for remote networks, and file-type content filtering all shipping. Pair that with Purview DLP sync dropping from 2 hours to 30 minutes and the Intune Data Warehouse v1 connector retirement, and there's real work to do.