Microsoft 365 retirements

Added the enrollmentState enumeration type. Added the updateCategoryEnrollmentInformation resource type. Removed the updateCategory property from the updateManagementEnrollment resource. Added the feature property to the updateManagementEnrollment resource. Added the quality property to the updateManagementEnrollment resource. Added the driver property to the updateManagementEnrollment resource. Deprecated the updatableAssetEnrollment resource.

Added the resourceAccessStatus enumeration type. Added the resourceAccessType enumeration type. Added the aiAgentInfo resource type. Added the aiInteractionEntity resource type. Removed the identifier property from the aiInteractionPlugin resource in favor of the identifier property inherited from its base type. Removed the name property from the aiInteractionPlugin resource in favor of the name property inherited from its base type.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

Teams will automatically remove hidden metadata (EXIF) from images shared in conversations. This privacy protection helps prevent sensitive information such as photo location and device details from being shared without your knowledge.

We’re consolidating agent management experiences to make it easier to observe, govern, and secure all agents in your tenant. Agent 365 will be the single source of truth, offering a unified catalog, consistent visibility, and simplified management. What’s changing The Agent registry and Agent collections blades in the Entra admin center will be retired on May 1, 2026. No action is required by administrators. Agent functionality and management remain unaffected.

Added a deprecation notice to the agentRegistry resource and related APIs indicating that these Agent Registry APIs will be replaced by Agent 365-based APIs starting May 1, 2026. Added a deprecation notice to the agentCardManifest resource indicating that these Agent Registry APIs will be replaced by Agent 365-based APIs starting May 1, 2026.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

Microsoft Project Online will retire on September 30, 2026.
If users are still using Project Online, they will see an in-app banner announcing the retirement.
If your organization will not be fully migrated by September 30, 2026, we highly recommend you contact a Microsoft partner immediately to make a migration plan and let your Microsoft account team know your plans.

Exchange Web Services (EWS) deprecation begins October 1, 2026. Cross-tenant collaboration features — Free/Busy, MailTips, and Calendar Sharing — currently rely on EWS.
Cross-tenant Free/Busy, MailTips will be available by September 2026 and Calendar Sharing will be available by mid-October 2026 via Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Access Policy, which replaces EWS-based cross-tenant collaboration.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

As announced in 2023, Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online is being retired. Phased disablement will begin on October 1, 2026.
Starting October 15, 2026, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps app governance threat detections that rely on EWS activity signals will also be sunset.
For full details on the EWS retirement, see the Learn documentation: Deprecation of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft is retiring support for loading Power Query data into the Python runtime in Excel for the web. After this change, users will no longer be able to use Power Query as a data source for Python in Excel when working in Excel for the web. This retirement aligns investments in Python in Excel with supported experiences and does not affect Excel for Windows desktop.

Deprecated the privilegedAccess resource and all the associated APIs that are part of the Privileged Identity Management (PIM) iteration 2 APIs for Azure resources. These APIs are deprecated and will stop returning data on October 28, 2026. Use the new Azure REST PIM API for Azure resource roles.

We are retiring Themes by Copilot in Microsoft Outlook. Themes by Copilot currently allows users with a Copilot license to create and apply a Copilot-generated theme in Settings. As part of this change, Themes by Copilot will be removed from Settings, and users will no longer be able to select or return to a Theme by Copilot after changing to a different theme.

Microsoft is retiring the CIQ-based "@" entity insertion experience on the document canvas in Word for the web. This retirement aligns Word for the web with the experience available in other Microsoft 365 applications, including Word desktop, Excel, and PowerPoint, where this entry point is no longer available.
As part of this change, users will no longer be able to invoke the CIQ menu from the document canvas by typing "@". This retirement does not affect @mentions in comments.

Added the windows365SwitchCompatibilityFailureReasonType enumeration type. Added the cloudPcLaunchDetail resource type. Deprecated the cloudPcLaunchInfo resource type. The cloudPcLaunchInfo resource is deprecated and will stop returning data on October 30, 2026. Going forward, use the cloudPcLaunchDetail API. Added the retrieveCloudPcLaunchDetail method to the cloudPC resource. Deprecated the getCloudPcLaunchInfo method of the cloudPC resource.

We are retiring support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) running on ARM64 architecture, effective October 31, 2026.

Starting November 1, 2026, Dynamics 365 Sales Insights as a standalone add-on will have reached end of support. Sales Insights is a legacy offering whose capabilities are already included in Sales Premium.
Sales Premium delivers the Sales Insights capabilities at the same price as the Sales Enterprise + Sales Insights combination. It also includes Copilot Credits, additional Dataverse storage capacity, and access to new Sales Premium capabilities.

The paid Extended Security Update (ESU) period ends: no more security updates after this date.

The paid Extended Security Update (ESU) period ends: no more security updates after this date.

Deprecated the sharedWithMe method on the drive resource. This API is deprecated and will stop returning data after November, 2026. Deprecated the recent method on the drive resource. This API is deprecated and will stop returning data after November 2026. Removed the Org.OData.Core.V1.Revisions resource. Removed the Org.OData.Core.V1.Revisions resource.

Microsoft Entra is introducing workload identity–based authentication for SAP SuccessFactors provisioning. This new capability allows the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to authenticate to SAP SuccessFactors using Entra workload identity and short‑lived tokens instead of static credentials (username and password).

As previously announced in MC1448379 (August 5, 2026), the public preview of the MemberOf rule operator in Microsoft Entra ID is ending. Organizations using MemberOf in dynamic membership groups, dynamic administrative units (AUs), or entitlement management auto-assignment policies must replace these configurations by November 3, 2026.
Microsoft continues to improve the scale and reliability of dynamic membership processing.

Microsoft will retire the SharePoint Page Agent (Frontier) for SharePoint Online. This early access experience enabled users to turn content from Microsoft 365 Copilot conversations into draft SharePoint pages and news posts.
As Microsoft continues to invest in AI-powered content creation experiences, page and news authoring capabilities are now available directly within SharePoint through Copilot in SharePoint.

Apps in Copilot Cowork are now available through the Frontier program, and Apps in Microsoft Copilot Studio are rolling out in public preview.To provide a unified experience for building apps with natural language, Microsoft is retiring the App Builder agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot and vibe.powerapps.com.
Copilot Cowork and Microsoft Copilot Studio will become the primary experiences for creating apps using natural language.

Beginning November 30, 2026, Microsoft will start retiring the Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) classic and DSPM for AI classic experiences. Retirement will be completed by December 31, 2026.
As part of our continued investment in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management, we have unified DSPM capabilities into a single experience that helps organizations discover, protect, and investigate data risks across traditional data sources and AI applications and…

Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.

Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.

We are retiring Data Risk Graph in Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM).
Data Risk Graph provides a visual investigation experience that helps investigators review connections among impacted data, users, and alert-related activities. As part of ongoing investments in Insider Risk Management investigation experiences, we are retiring this capability and directing customers to alternative investigation tools that provide detailed activity timelines and investigative context.

The Microsoft 365 companion apps—Calendar, People, and Files — are taskbar-integrated apps designed to streamline everyday workflows, helping users stay focused, reduce context switching, and complete tasks faster.
We are retiring the companion apps, and they will no longer function or be supported after 16. December 2026. We advise admins remove the apps from devices in their tenant by this date. Detailed admin guidance is in Microsoft 365 companion app retirement.

Microsoft is retiring the Surveys agent and transitioning customers to a unified, Copilot-powered experience within Microsoft Forms. This change streamlines form creation, data collection, and analysis into a single, integrated experience—improving productivity and providing more advanced AI-driven capabilities without requiring additional licensing. Users can continue their workflows seamlessly while benefiting from enhanced Copilot features built directly into Forms.

Added the cloudPcUsageCategoryReport member to the cloudPcRecommendationReportType enumeration. Deprecated the cloudPcUsageCategoryReports member from the cloudPcRecommendationReportType enumeration. Added the cloudPcUsageCategoryReport member to the cloudPcReportName enumeration. Deprecated the cloudPcUsageCategoryReports member from the cloudPcReportName enumeration. Added the cloudPcReport resource. Deprecated the cloudPcReports resource.

Targeted release for Microsoft 365 services will be retiring in January 2027 as Microsoft 365 transitions to three release options: Frontier, Standard release, and Deferred release.
To prepare for this change, review users currently enrolled in Targeted release and configure the release preference that best meets your organization's needs.
Choose your preferred release preference in the Microsoft 365 admin center:

To improve security and reduce reliance on vulnerable authentication methods, Microsoft is continuing the retirement of SMS first-factor sign-in in Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft recommends phishing-resistant authentication methods, such as passkeys, as the preferred sign-in experience because they help reduce the risk of phishing, fraud, and account compromise associated with phone-based authentication.

Microsoft is retiring pre-authenticated URLs, also known as tempauth URLs, from SharePoint Online and OneDrive. Beginning April 1, 2027, selected Microsoft Graph file APIs will no longer return URLs that contain embedded authentication information and will no longer issue HTTP 302 redirects to those URLs.
To help organizations prepare, new SharePoint Online tenant controls are coming soon in a future release of Microsoft SharePoint Online PowerShell.

Added the user member to the agentIdentityType enumeration. Added the displayName property to the agentRiskDetection resource. Added the identityId property to the agentRiskDetection resource. Deprecated the agentId property in the agentRiskDetection resource. Use identityId instead. This property will be removed after 2027-04-28. Deprecated the agentDisplayName property in the agentRiskDetection resource. Use displayName instead. This property will be removed after 2027-04-28.

The Microsoft Graph AuditLogQuery API is generally available for programmatic access to Microsoft Purview Audit activity logs. We are also announcing the planned retirement of the Search-UnifiedAuditLog PowerShell cmdlet on October 15, 2027.
The AuditLogQuery API provides improved scalability and reliability, more granular workload-level permissions, and support for exporting up to 1 million audit records per query.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

No more security updates, fixes or help from Microsoft. Upgrade or move to Microsoft 365 before this date.

The Link Preview feature has been retired in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web because the browser service required to retrieve preview content from the web was deprecated. Without this, Outlook can no longer access the information needed to generate preview cards. Links will continue to function as standard clickable hyperlinks.

As part of the ongoing transition of Teams device management from the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) to the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal (PMP), we are retiring device health monitoring capabilities in TAC — specifically the Device state rule (Teams admin center > Notifications & alerts > Rules) and the device health alerts it generates.

Microsoft is retiring Citrix Mobile VPN (mVPN) integration support in Microsoft Edge for Android, beginning with Edge version 153. Citrix mVPN integration in Edge for Android depends on legacy third-party components that present ongoing compatibility and maintenance challenges as Android platform requirements continue to evolve.
To help ensure a secure, reliable, and supportable experience for Microsoft Edge users, Microsoft will retire Citrix mVPN integration support in Edge for Android.

Microsoft Edge is retiring its legacy direct-WAM sign-in implementation on Windows starting with Microsoft Edge version 157, completing the consolidation onto the OneAuth authentication library.
This change standardizes authentication flows across Microsoft 365 client applications, simplifies platform supportability, eliminates dual-stack authentication code paths, and provides improved diagnostic and recovery mechanisms.

We have temporarily removed the Brand pane from Microsoft PowerPoint while we make additional improvements to the experience.
The Brand pane was introduced to provide users with a dedicated place in PowerPoint to discover and use assets from available Brand Kits, including brand colors, logos, images, icons, and fonts. Based on customer feedback, we are refining the experience before making it broadly available.

The Viva Learning usage report and The Viva Insights personal insights active-user trend chart will be retired from the Microsoft 365 admin center. For Viva Learning, admins can continue to access usage metrics in the Viva Learning app directly.