A Method to track current and upcoming changes to M365 Products

Good evening (from Ireland at least), 

I've spent most of today traipsing down a variety of dead-ends and soon-to-be-discontinued features looking to create a useful location where I can find/send all new updates to products that I can peruse and ultimately highlight ones that may be of particular importance in my organisation. 

I've had a long chat with Copilot today and while I've made significant progress in some areas (had upwards of 30 great questions according to Copilot! ;P), when it comes to the final product, there's always some missing connector, or some RSS feed that is no longer supported. 

What I'm looking for here is any input on how you manage to stay ahead of changes and I'll share everything I'm doing and have learned as well, in the hope that the discussion is somewhat mutually beneficial. 

What I do:

Message Centre:

Manually check the Message Center (under Service Health in M365 Admin Center). 
You can sort by product here and by relevance which is quite handy. 
Link: https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?#/MessageCenter (Access to the M365 Admin Center on your tenant is required for this). 

Today I found out you can also send emails to yourself (and Teams channels) here so awaiting the next message to see if this has worked. 
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way of migrating past messages over so I'll have to go through these myself first. 

Road Maps:

These have been the bane of my day. 
Currently, I actively check the road maps of the products I manage but going forward, I'd like to be able to track major changes to products used in my organisation so I can give users a heads up. 
I initially tried Power Automate to send updates to myself, however, it's not a feature widely used in our org yet and isn't well supported, so I wasn't too surprised when my efforts were blocked by existing policy. 

Not long after, I found RSS feeds, which seemed to be the answer to my problems. 
I created RSS Feeds for each of the Road Maps that I found useful, assured by Copilot that these would work. 
The assurance wasn't fell founded however as, true to form, once I showed Copilot by errors, they remembered that they were there all along! :') 

I'm yet to find a useful solution here beyond my current efforts so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

Community Blogs

The final recommendation was these Community Blog posts which, to be fair, I've had immense success with to date. 

However, there is a slight issue with filtering. 

While I did finally get the RSS Feed to work on something (the Tech Comm M365 RSS Feed), it did then proceed to send me a mass of emails on every topic under the Sun & Moon. 

I've decided to return to the drawing board tomorrow with this, but I'm content in knowing that RSS isn't just a myth at least. 

I think what I'd like here is just to receive notifications when approved Blogs are posted (i.e., Monthly OneDrive Updates and the equivalent for other products).

OneDrive Office Hours: 

This is a fansastic resource I do use every month as it gives you the opportunity to get in contact with the people who know the most about the product and the issues you're facing. 
I've spent weeks in a ticket before, only to raise it in one of these meetings and get a solution that took half an hour to set up. 

You'll get a yes or a no, but at least you'll have an answer. 

Copilot Chat:

I don't have the full Copilot license because I haven't had a need for it yet. 
Everything I've wanted to do, I've been able to do in Copilot Chat. 
We haven't yet looked too much into Agents, and as a Public body, aren't going to rush into it until we know it's viable and can be supported. 
In the interim, I'm happy to test the waters with Copilot Chat asking it for Monthly Summaries on a variety of products, time frames, etc. 
It isn't perfect but it's faster than I am. 
It can find the sources for me and I can take it from there.

As an organisation, we'll be pushing out all users on the most recent version (-1) on the Monthly Enterprise Channel. 
This means that they'll be supported whilst also being shielded from any brand new features. 

Our team will be on the most recent version and will be able to note any upcoming changes ahead of time. 

These are what I'm using so far but would be very grateful for any further input. 

Thanks in advance, 

Chris Martin