About this archive

I'm Merill Fernando. I build tools and write about Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra to help admins keep up with constant change.

Why I built this

Message Center posts are useful, but they are hard to link to, search, and reference outside the Microsoft 365 admin center. I built this archive so posts can be found quickly and shared from places like Entra.News.

This site is for reference only. Message Center posts are customized by tenant, so always use your own tenant's Message Center as the source of truth.

How it works

A scheduled job reads Message Center posts from the Microsoft 365 test tenants through Microsoft Graph, merges what each tenant can see, saves each post for history, and publishes a searchable static site.

The site also imports Microsoft 365 Roadmap RSS items and Azure updates from Microsoft's public feed, generates static pages, and exposes sitemap, RSS, and AI-friendly index files for discovery.

Like, comment and discuss

A post tells you what is changing. It cannot tell you how it went in the tenant that got it a week before yours. So every Message Center, Roadmap and Azure Updates post has a discussion on its page.

Like or dislike a post

One press shows how a change is landing. The counts show on the post and in the list.

Comment

Say when it reached your tenant, what it did, and what you changed. Or ask what a line in the post means.

Reply and like comments

Answer someone directly, and like the comments that helped so the next reader finds them first.

Save views

Keep the list the way you want it, such as your own products with major changes only, and switch between views.

Discussions are hosted on zap.ms, a community site I'm building for people in the Microsoft community, focused on tech and getting work done. You sign in once, and stay on this site. An MVP or Microsoft badge next to a name is verified.

Example

Microsoft Entra ID: passkey profiles and the registration campaign

Priya NairMVP2 days ago

This reached our tenant on Monday. Heads up: the registration campaign switched itself on, and about 300 people were asked to set up a passkey at sign-in the next morning.

If you are not ready for that, exclude a group or turn the campaign off before the rollout date.

Daniel Kowalski2 days ago

Same here. Our help desk had 40 calls before 9am. Did excluding a group work for you?

Priya NairMVP1 day ago

Yes, nobody in the excluded group was prompted. Remember your break-glass accounts.

Maria Lindqvist5 hours ago

Not in our GCC tenant yet as of today. I will report back when it lands.

An illustration with invented names. Real discussions sit under each post.

Help improve tenant coverage

Message Center posts differ by tenant, so some are only seen by education, government or specially licensed tenants. 4 tenants are shared with the archive so far, including education tenants.

If you manage a tenant, you can let the archive read its Message Center. It is read-only, takes about five minutes, and there is no password or secret to share.

Contribute your tenant

Release notes

October 13, 2026

  • Azure updates are now part of the archive: every update Microsoft has published on azure.microsoft.com/updates since 2013, refreshed hourly, each with its own page showing its status, timeline, products and tags. Use the Azure Updates button above the list to see only those, and the Service filter to pick Azure products. They are in search, the RSS feed and the AI index too, and each has a discussion and tracked version history like every other post.
  • When a service filter or a View option leaves the list empty, it now says "Showing 0 of" however many posts that source has, names the filters to check, and offers a button to clear them. Azure names its products differently from Microsoft 365 services, so a service picked for Message Center matches no Azure update.
  • Version history opens on the post's own page instead of on a page per version. Every post still lists its versions and which fields changed in each. Opening a version, or comparing two, now needs a free zap.ms account, the same sign-in as for likes and comments. Links to the old version and comparison pages still work, and versions are numbered (?v=3, ?from=2&to=5), which also makes reachable the versions that shared a timestamp with another.
  • The list on the home page has View options: show major changes only, hide expired posts, choose the sort order, and add or remove the Source, Service and Last updated columns.
  • You can save what you have set up as a named view, such as "My products", and switch between views from the tabs above the list. Saving needs a free zap.ms account, so your views follow you to any browser; the list opens in the view you used last.
  • The home page no longer repeats the site's name in large type. One line says what the site is and links to this page.
  • This page now covers likes, comments and saved views. The step-by-step guide to contributing a tenant moved to its own Contribute your tenant page.
  • A strip at the top of every page announces that you can like and comment on Message Center posts. It opens a new Discuss page that explains what you can do, why it is here and how to help, with an example discussion. Dismissing the strip is remembered in your browser.
  • Posts no longer show as expired when one of the tenants contributing to the archive cannot be reached. They stay as they were until that tenant answers again or the post reaches its own end date.

October 12, 2026

  • Posts that only the education tenants contributing to the archive received now carry a "Seen in EDU tenants" label, shown as an EDU badge in the list and under Tag on the post. Click the label to see what it means.
  • Comments in a discussion now have a Like button with its count, next to Reply, in place of the score beside the name. Report and Delete moved into a "…" menu on each comment. When you are signed in, a bell in the header links to your notifications on zap.ms and shows how many are unread.

October 11, 2026

  • The home page list now shows the likes, dislikes and comment count of each post that has a discussion, and Active discussions opens the post on this site at its discussion. Counts in lists can be up to ten minutes behind; your own likes and comments show straight away.
  • You can now like, dislike, comment and reply on a post without leaving this site. The first time, you sign in with a zap.ms account and come straight back to the post you were reading.
  • Likes and comments now show the moment you press the button, and a comment you are still writing is kept in your browser until you post or discard it.
  • Comments now show each person's zap.ms profile photo, and once you are signed in the top of the page shows your photo instead of your username.
  • You can flag a comment for the moderators, and delete your own comment for ten minutes after posting it.
  • The top of every page now has a Sign in button, and shows who you are once signed in. The RSS, GitHub and Twitter links have moved to the bottom of the page.
  • Comment and reply boxes now link to the community guidelines. We keep discussions friendly: assume the other person means well.
  • The bottom of every page now links to the privacy policy and terms of use, which cover this site and zap.ms.
  • Long service names on a post, such as Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), now wrap inside their card instead of being cut off.
  • If you have a Microsoft badge on zap.ms, a notice at the top of the page now tells you when it is time to confirm your Microsoft email again, with a link to do it.

October 10, 2026

  • Every Message Center and Roadmap post now has a Discussion section. You can see how many people liked or disliked a change and read what other admins are saying about it. Likes, dislikes and comments are made on zap.ms, a community site for Microsoft admins, and each button takes you there.
  • The home page shows the posts being discussed right now, when there are any.

October 6, 2026

  • Fixed the instructions for contributing a tenant with your own app registration. The federated credential now uses the subject identifier GitHub actually sends for this repository, so sign-in no longer fails with AADSTS700213.
  • Contributors in the thank-you list can now share more than one link, such as a LinkedIn profile and a company site.

October 5, 2026

  • After granting consent, contributors now fill in a short optional form (tenant type, notable licenses, and whether to be credited) and see the exact email before sending or copying it.
  • The contribution form asks whether the tenant is an Entra ID workforce tenant or an Entra External ID tenant, and offers common tenant types such as EDU, GCC, Nonprofit, and Developer Program sandboxes as quick picks alongside a field for typing any other type.
  • Added a thank-you list of tenant contributors to this page. Only people who ask to be credited are named; everyone else is counted anonymously.
  • Home page filters are now bookmarkable and shareable. Service selections, source, and search text are saved in the URL and restored when you open the link.
  • New and updated posts now reach the site soon after they are fetched instead of waiting for the next scheduled site build. Each data refresh that finds new posts starts a site build right away, and refreshes also check that the live site is not serving stale data.

October 2, 2026

  • Added step-by-step instructions for contributing a tenant to the archive, either with one-click admin consent to a read-only app or with your own app registration. Both use workload identity federation, so there is no secret to share, and contributing tenants are kept private.

September 15, 2026

  • Fixed the RSS feed so it includes Message Center posts again. Roadmap posts were always ranked ahead of Message Center posts and filled every slot, so the feed now lists the latest 500 posts from both sources newest first.
  • Fixed opening posts from the archive table in Safari on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Selecting any row opened the same unrelated post; each row now opens its own post.

August 22, 2026

  • Table columns are now sortable. Click ID, Title, or Last updated to sort, and click again to reverse it. While searching, sorting applies to every match rather than only the results already loaded.
  • Fixed the default ordering of the archive. Expired posts were listed after every active and Roadmap post instead of being merged into the date order, so the browse view now shows all posts newest first.
  • Search results now favour recent posts. Among matches of comparable relevance the newest one ranks first, which suits change alerts, while a decisively better match still wins however old it is.
  • Added an RSS link to the site header so the existing feed of the latest 500 Message Center and Roadmap posts is easier to find.
  • Replaced the ID and title filters with full-text search across every post, including the full body text of expired posts. Search runs entirely in the browser against a pre-built Pagefind index, ranks results by relevance, highlights the matched words in context, and still honours the source and service filters.
  • The archive now collects Message Center posts from more than one source tenant and merges them, so posts and details that are only visible to a tenant with different licensing are included. When the same post comes from several tenants, the most recently updated and most detailed copy is kept.
  • The site now rebuilds every four hours instead of twice a day, so new and updated posts appear here sooner after Microsoft publishes them.

August 3, 2026

  • Added automatic Discord notifications for newly discovered Microsoft Entra Message Center posts, with durable delivery tracking and links to their archived pages. Documentation and Message Center notifications now share the Entra Scout webhook identity while retaining distinct message formats. Message Center matching includes Entra product labels and title-only Entra mentions.

May 4, 2026

  • Linked Message Center IDs that appear in post summaries, in addition to the post body.
  • Added a metadata cards panel to version comparison and snapshot pages so changes to fields like tags, severity, status, and release phase are visible at a glance alongside the body diff.
  • Smooth-scroll when jumping to in-page sections like Version history, with a brief highlight pulse on arrival. Honors the operating system's reduced-motion preference.
  • Reworked the Version history card so the two most common comparisons — latest vs previous and latest vs original — are one-click primary buttons at the top, with a summary line showing how many times the post has been updated since its original publish date.

May 3, 2026

  • Added click-to-enlarge image previews on Message Center and Roadmap detail pages, with a fullscreen lightbox and keyboard support.
  • Added per-message version history with a timeline of prior versions, dedicated snapshot pages for each version, and inline visual diffs (additions in green, deletions in red) comparing any two versions of a Message Center or Roadmap post.
  • Linked plain-text references between Message Center posts inside body content, added a Related posts panel showing References and Referenced by, and exposed those edges in messages-index.json for AI and search consumers.

May 2, 2026

  • Added Microsoft 365 Roadmap posts alongside Message Center posts, with source labels, icons, filtering, and detail pages.
  • Added archived Message Center support, including archive-only detail pages, expired badges, and expired announcement banners.
  • Improved home page performance with precomputed service filters and natural incremental row loading.
  • Added searchable multi-select service filtering, wider fixed-width dropdown behavior, and source filters for Message Center and Roadmap.
  • Added SEO and sharing support with canonical metadata, Open Graph and Twitter cards, sitemap, robots file, and a branded social image.
  • Added AI-friendly discovery through llms.txt and a compact messages-index.json for agents and search tools.
  • Added a skills.sh-compatible agent skill and Skill page for AI-assisted archive search and canonical citation.
  • Added a static RSS feed with the latest 500 active Message Center and Roadmap items.
  • Added this About page, updated homepage guidance about tenant-specific Message Center posts, and added top navigation links.
  • Updated dependencies to clear Dependabot vulnerabilities and moved the site to Next.js 15.
  • Improved the data refresh script, including more reliable Roadmap fetching on GitHub Actions.