Friday, 11 September 2026

My Staff access is now determined by administrative role assignments and their administrative unit scope. The legacy settings under Manage user feature settings no longer affect behavior and are being removed.

Several licensing entries now use updated Microsoft 365 Copilot product names, including Education, Finance, and Sales offerings.

Several entries now use Microsoft Copilot branding instead of Microsoft 365 Copilot branding. Their service plan identifiers and mappings remain unchanged in the documented rows.

The page no longer identifies the legacy My Apps and My Staff settings as being under Manage user feature settings. It states that these settings are unused, do not affect behavior, and are being removed from the admin center.

The documentation now explains how to investigate failed validation tests using provisioning error details, recommendation URLs, and Logic App run details. It also lists common authentication, user, group, and SCIM compliance failures with recommended remedies.

The documentation lists SAML capabilities that can be validated, including IdP- and SP-initiated SSO, SLO, application-specific claims, and user identifiers. It also states that applications should reject assertions signed with expired certificates and recommends reviewing validation logic if they do not.

The article no longer includes guidance to confirm procedures for expired SAML signing certificates, propagation time, and cleanup with the Entra App Validator team before publication. It now directly presents the validation steps.

The QR code authentication documentation now links to the main My Staff setup page instead of a specific section anchor.

The table now refers to “Microsoft Copilot (Office)” instead of “Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office)”; compatibility indicators are unchanged.

The documentation now states that these legacy preview and experience settings no longer affect app launchers or user behavior and are being removed from the Microsoft Entra admin center.

The app gallery publishing documentation now refers to the Microsoft Partner One ID and identifies Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) ID as its former name.

The tenant-estate architecture guidance now uses “Microsoft Copilot” instead of “Microsoft 365 Copilot.”

The documentation and screenshot alt text now refer to the field as “Submission ID” instead of “submission request ID.”

The Windows token protection guide now refers to Microsoft Copilot instead of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The AI Administrator and AI Reader descriptions were updated from “Microsoft 365 Copilot” to “Microsoft Copilot.” Their role IDs remain unchanged.

The documentation now specifies that existing guest users can be directly assigned, but external users who are not yet in the directory cannot be invited through direct assignment when access is limited to administrator direct assignments.

The article now links to the authentication methods overview and the consolidated “Add an identity provider to a user flow” article instead of listing the Apple-specific setup steps inline.

A single article now documents how to add a configured OIDC, SAML/WS-Fed, or social identity provider to an External ID user flow, including prerequisites, permissions, portal steps, and testing.

The article now links to a consolidated guide for adding an identity provider to a user flow and reorganizes the sign-in and sign-up guidance. The duplicated setup and testing steps were removed.

The article’s step-by-step instructions and screenshot for adding an OIDC provider to a user flow were replaced with a link to a consolidated guide.

The article now links to a consolidated guide for adding Facebook as an identity provider to a user flow and updates the section heading and introductory guidance.

The article now directs administrators to a consolidated guide for adding Google as an identity provider to a user flow, instead of listing the steps inline.

The article replaces its embedded steps and screenshot for adding the Microsoft account identity provider with a link to the shared user-flow guidance.

The External tenants guidance now links to the consolidated article for adding a SAML/WS-Fed identity provider to a user flow.

The standalone article covering prerequisites and steps for adding a SAML or WS-Fed identity provider to a user flow was removed and consolidated into a single article referenced by the federation documentation.

The user profile information documentation no longer includes guidance that users can use My Apps preview features or that administrators can access My Staff.

The user profile information guidance no longer includes the “Manage user feature settings” reference.

The article now provides explicit prerequisites, required Microsoft Entra and SAP permissions, SAP IAS OIDC and JWT Trust-by-Issuer configuration details, and a clearer token flow and revocation explanation.

The documentation now refers to “Microsoft Copilot” instead of “Microsoft 365 Copilot.”

The page now explains how to find modified-header transactions in Global Secure Access traffic logs and add the Custom Headers column. During the September 2026 rollout, a special Entra Admin Center link may be needed to view these details.

The guidance now labels the link “Microsoft Copilot requirements” instead of “Microsoft 365 Copilot requirements.”