Play of the Week
May 1, 2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon leverage insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users will have the ability to view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time. The added functionality is coming in May 2025.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for May 1, 2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.
ID: 170738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Connections: New Folder card in Viva Connections Dashboard
This card will help operators add a card which will show all the files inside a directory for quick access.
ID: 408536 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents to run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
We mistakenly marked the roadmap as “”launched.”” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents using Teams Toolkit & Microsoft Copilot Studio, so that they can run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.
ID: 474439 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – SharePoint results integration in Viva Learning Search
Users will be able to discover relevant internal SharePoint content seamlessly while searching within Viva Learning, ensuring they have access to all pertinent resources in one place.
ID: 479752 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly start a chat with Copilot from anywhere on your PC
Use the Copilot key and Win + C shortcut on Windows 11 devices to quickly interact with Copilot.
ID: 482544 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Discover agent in Microsoft Copilot on iOS/Android
Agent has been released to Desktop/Web Copilot and now we are enabling Agent UX in mobile endpoints. It will allow end-users to discover installed agents, add new agents and chat with them in mobile Copilot on Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 Copilot App (formerly Microsoft 365 App).
ID: 482545 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages in Government Clouds
This brings the editable Copilot Pages feature which is already shipped WW to the government environment. The pages feature enables users to add their Microsoft 365 Copilot responses to a page where they can edit and share with others for collaboration. This happens right within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
ID: 485178 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat module UI refresh
Copilot Chat is designed to provide a streamlined UI, making it easy to get started and achieve your goals quickly. It offers a helpful, understanding, and personalized experience, allowing you to search for past interactions, content, agents, or pages with ease.
ID: 485716 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word
The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone.
ID: 485719 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word
The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone.
ID: 485723 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Use Copilot in PDFs within the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
Use Copilot with PDF files for summaries and key insights.
ID: 485725 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills is now available
We’re excited to launch People Skills, an AI-powered service that delivers personalized skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365. Using advanced inferencing, it helps organizations identify skill gaps and promote upskilling. With People Skills, individuals can easily share a current view of their skills and more easily connect with others. People Skills data enriches people-based experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot and in the Microsoft 365 profile card and editor.
ID: 485726 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Locate your Copilot Pages in Copilot Chat navigation pane
For quick access to your Copilot Pages, find all page artifacts created across your apps/modules in one place underneath the Chat section in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
ID: 485728 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365: Use Copilot in your search tab in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
Quickly find your files and leverage Copilot to get a better understanding within the search tab on the go.
ID: 485731 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Site default labeling for SharePoint Online and Copilot
This new capability further integrates SharePoint Online with Purview sensitivity labeling. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a new type of default label on the library, which automatically applies that label to all unprotected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files within the library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization, enriches DLP and Copilot with signal to allow admins to monitor and restrict access to this content, and enables inheritance of sensitivity labels to output artifacts in Copilot.
ID: 485732 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Site default labeling for SharePoint Online and Copilot
This new capability further integrates SharePoint Online with Purview sensitivity labeling. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a new type of default label on the library, which automatically applies that label to all unprotected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files within the library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization, enriches DLP and Copilot with signal to allow admins to monitor and restrict access to this content, and enables inheritance of sensitivity labels to output artifacts in Copilot.
ID: 485733 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Copilot can generate an audio overview of a linked file in email
Copilot in Outlook can turn a linked document in email into a dynamic audio overview, transforming it into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Outlook, hover over a linked file in email, then select ‘Generate audio overview’. Copilot will bring your content to life through a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. This capability is available in English only currently. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 485747 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365: People Skills
People Skills is a new Microsoft 365 service that offers skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365, including the Microsoft 365 profile card, profile editor, and Org Explorer. People Skills lets individuals in your organization create a skills profile based on a shared taxonomy, to showcase their skills and connect more easily with others.
ID: 485768 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admin control to disable file upload in Copilot Chat
Admins will now have more control to disable File upload across tenants or in Work or Web grounding modes for Copilot Chat.
ID: 485775 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced contextual discovery of agents within Microsoft 365
Customers now have new experience to discover, install, and use/reuse agents within the Copilot app for Microsoft 365.
ID: 486699 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Memory
Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users have full control and can view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time.
ID: 486701 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages module on Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
With the Copilot Pages module in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your mobile, you can now access all of your Pages in one place on the go.
ID: 486857 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can generate an audio overview of your Word document
Copilot can turn your Word document into a dynamic audio overview, transforming it into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. Ask Copilot to generate an audio overview in the Copilot chat pane, and Copilot will bring your content to life through a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. This capability is only available in English currently. The ability for users to configure the audio overview format and adjust things like style, number of speakers, and length will be available later.
ID: 487423 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can now answer questions about opened Copilot Pages in chat
When using Copilot Pages side-by-side in Copilot Chat, you can now ask questions in chat about your open page, and Copilot will provide answers based on the contents of that page.
ID: 487848 Release: Microsoft Loop, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can generate an audio overview of a notebook
Copilot can turn the referenced files in a notebook into a dynamic audio overview, transforming them into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Copilot Notebooks, select ‘Generate audio overview’ at the top of the notebook. This capability is only available in English currently.
ID: 487854 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot surfaces key statistics in the top of a document
Copilot includes a summary at the top of key statistics from your Word document.
ID: 487855 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot App – Ask M365 Copilot
Right-click on your content to ask Copilot about it on Copilot PC devices.
ID: 487856 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Enhanced desk booking capabilities
Microsoft 365 now offers the ability to book desks for durations smaller than whole day, book for multiple days at the same time, and delegates/EAs can book desks for their principals.
ID: 488803 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Configure auto-release for desks
Admins can now configure desks so that users must check-in (within a configurable duration after desk reservation start time); if users do not check-in to the desk, the desk will auto-release and be made available for others to book.
ID: 488804 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Support Audit logs for Give and Take Control and Screen share
IT administrators will now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Teams Admin Centre.
ID: 489224 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
SharePoint: Header & Footer Enhancements
The site header and footer are key elements of the SharePoint user interface, playing a vital role in navigation, brand expression, and overall user experience. To better align with today’s design standards and customer expectations, we’re introducing a full visual upgrade of the SharePoint site header and footer. This upgrade delivers a more cohesive and contemporary look while offering new preset layouts and enhanced customization options. Organizations will be able to tailor these elements to better reflect their brand identity, improve usability, and create a more engaging, connected experience for employees.
ID: 489225 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization in GCC-High and DoD
With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization.
ID: 489455 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI Apps and agents
Apps and agents in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI apps enables administrators to view a dashboard of agents used across the organization and identify and manage any potential data security risks. Administrators can access detailed insights into sensitive data that specific agents have accessed and see how these agents are protected by Purview data security policies. The detailed agent view also indicates what policies are applied to the agent and provides the option for administrators to create a policy directly from this view to address any coverage gaps.
ID: 489492 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: AI assistant for admins in the Pro Management portal
IT admins can save time and effort using this AI-powered assistant, which provides answers to ‘how to’ product questions related to Teams meeting spaces and management solutions and provides data and insights specific to inventory in the organization’s environment. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Important note: This is not officially Copilot as it doesn’t yet meet all requirements. It is LLM chatbot AI assistance thought. It provides information, does NOT yet perform actions.
ID: 489821 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Skills agent
The Skills agent in M365 Copilot, empowers individuals and leaders to easily find experts in the organization, make informed decisions about skill development, and ensure that the organization has the right skills in the era of AI. The Skills agent is powered by the People Skills data layer, which uses advanced AI capabilities to infer skills for every person in the organization, providing a comprehensive view of areas of expertise and focus all in one place.
ID: 489823 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Modernized Viva Engage Email Subscription Management
We are modernizing the existing email subscription management experience in Viva Engage to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. Previously, unsubscribe and notification settings links in emails opened legacy web pages with limited functionality. With this update, those links will now direct users to refreshed, modern pages where they can easily manage their email preferences. Users will be able to unsubscribe or resubscribe to specific email types through a cleaner and more accessible experience. The rollout of this update will begin in late April 2025 and is expected to complete by early May 2025.
ID: 489829 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: Customize your sites with multi-color themes
Site owners can now apply multi-color themes to their sites. These themes can be offered by Microsoft, created by the brand manager in the brand center, or by the site owners themselves using the new Site branding feature.
ID: 489833 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator
IRM admins can now select any Communication Compliance (CC) Policy alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select any custom CC policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for these CC policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admins can review if there are any alerts for the user within CC under the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to CC.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 489838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Configurable Keyboard Shortcuts
Set your own keyboard shortcuts to match your work preferences. Customize the keyboard shortcut for an action you frequently use by clicking on the ellipsis and selecting Keyboard shortcuts from the menu.
ID: 490048 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings
Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.
ID: 490051 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
SharePoint: Create multi-color themes for SharePoint in brand center
We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into brand center that supports multiple colors, allowing you to easily create and manage multi-color themes for your sites and related experiences.
ID: 490062 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
OneDrive: Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive Sync
This feature enables the OneDrive Sync client on Windows to detect known Microsoft personal accounts associated with business devices and prompt users to sync their personal OneDrive files. If the user accepts the prompt, their personal files will begin syncing alongside their work files. No action is required to enable this behavior by default. Admins can suppress or disable it using the DisableNewAccountDetection or DisablePersonalSync policies.
ID: 490064 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels
Dynamic watermarking is a sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This setting is supported for sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions and sensitivity labels with admin-defined permissions.
ID: 490121 Release: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Microsoft 365 Copilot App
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is your starting place for AI at work, offering quick access to secure AI chat, search, files, and content creation in one seamless app.
ID: 490155 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sharing with Copilot summary – Now supporting PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, Images, and protected files
The ability to include a Copilot summary when sharing a file now extends beyond Word web to cover PowerPoint (web), Excel (web), PDF, image and text files in OneDrive Web, SharePoint document libraries, and M365 File Viewer. You can even summarize protected or confidential files, preserving your sensitivity labels while getting instant overviews. These enhancements broaden your sharing toolkit, accelerate collaboration and keep your data secure.
ID: 490156 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2025
Outlook: Account Switcher for Copilot Tab
You can now switch between accounts on the Copilot tab. Simply swipe left to open the the left-navigation and select from the list of supported accounts.
ID: 490213 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Copilot Chat response output
Easily interact with Microsoft Graph content represented by bolder references, new action bar, and more.
ID: 490547 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplified Input box update in Copilot Chat
We are making it easier for users to type prompts with access to CIQ, local files, attach cloud files, and agents by adding it under the Plus Menu.
ID: 490548 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Copilot Pages as a Word document
Once a Copilot Chat user has finished researching, creating, and collecting content in Copilot Pages, they can take it to a Word document with the press of a button.
ID: 490550 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Loop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: Modern SharePoint Page Templates
The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions.
ID: 490565 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Planner: New Microsoft Planner App for Teams for customers in GCC-H
The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner and the power of Project into a single and simple solution that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
ID: 490567 Release: Microsoft Project, Microsoft To Do, Planner – GCC High Tags: May CY2025
Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC-H and DOD
The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
ID: 490568 Release: Microsoft Teams, Planner – GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): OneNote Pages in M365 Copilot
M365 Copilot experiences can now reason over your OneNote content
ID: 490722 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage reports – Message consumption for Pay-as-you-go experiences in Copilot Chat.
A new report to help IT admins manage costs for billed messages that are Pay-as-you-go enabled for Copilot Chat. Reporting includes drill down of billed messages per user, per agent-level and agent-user level pair.
ID: 490738 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The Create Module in the M365 Copilot app
The creative hub for AI led artifact generation capabilities
ID: 490760 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Copilot Notebooks Module
Copilot Notebooks Module in the M365 Copilot App
ID: 490777 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Search
Simple to use AI-powered enterprise search experience that quickly surfaces relevant information using work data you have access to.
ID: 490778 Release: Office 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile
DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
ID: 491016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: Time to read on SharePoint News posts
Each news item in SharePoint will display estimated read time of the article.
ID: 491024 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Clipchamp Copilot video creator
Create a video draft on any topic by providing a prompt. Clipchamp will create a video using stock video and music with an AI-generated voiceover on the topic.
ID: 471441 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc individual desk booking in Teams
In addition to being able to book a desk in advance through Outlook, now you can instantly reserve an individual desk when plugging into a peripheral on a shared desk. IT admins can also get valuable desk utilization data in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal making flexible work environments better for users and IT. This feature requires a Teams premium license.
ID: 473570 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can now reference files to help generate drafts
When creating a form with Copilot, users can now reference existing documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users can also reference an existing form by pasting the form’s URL into the prompt box. Additionally, Copilot can search and suggest relevant files when generating a form, so users can easily create a draft that meets their needs.
ID: 474658 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms has been refreshed to help users better refine and edit their forms
Copilot in Forms has been revamped to more easily help users refine and modify their forms. Users can now type prompts to Copilot to help with editing and refinement, so they can get tailored suggestions and easily get their forms ready to send.
ID: 474659 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva Learning surfaces personalized according to User skills
Viva Learning surfaces will be personalized based on user-selected skills and inferred skills derived from their role and activity within the Microsoft Graph. This ensures that the learning content is tailored to each user’s unique needs and professional context.
ID: 479751 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Updated Work feed on the new tab page
The Work feed experience, available on the new tab page for Work feed-eligible Commercial users with a Microsoft 365 subscription, will have changing and updated functionalities. These changes include renewed focus on productivity and Microsoft 365 modules. Users will have an updated My Feed experience on the enterprise new tab page. Users will no longer be able to view content and activity from their network and instead will experience quick access to recently used Microsoft 365 documents, recent SharePoint sites, upcoming Outlook events, Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft To Do tasks. Existing new tab page policies will continue to be enforced and will not be impacted by this updated Work feed experience.
ID: 483505 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Connections: New Folder card in Viva Connections Dashboard
This card will help operators add a card which will show all the files inside a directory for quick access.
ID: 408536 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints
With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.
ID: 410397 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance
This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
ID: 417483 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Clipchamp: Template creation in Commercial
Users can create their own Clipchamp templates for personal use or distribution across an organization via brand kits.
ID: 468295 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Post and reply to questions as an organizer
Town hall, webinar, and meeting organizers can now post and reply to questions using the title “organizer†in the Q&A experience, instead of their individual names. This feature allows instance organizers to present a unified and official voice when responding to attendee questions.
ID: 475856 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Administrator will be able to manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard settings.
Expanding the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard admin settings to AI Administrator role which is the newly announced Entra role. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions.
ID: 486700 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components
Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email. Update: we are cancelling this feature. We apologize for any inconveniences this might cause.
ID: 122238 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Graph: Graph API – New Outlook for Windows usage
New Outlook for Windows usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. This will facilitate the creation of customized reports and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in new Outlook for Windows usage of Microsoft 365 apps usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows, as well as flags indicating usage of the new or classic Outlook per user over the specified time period. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 475245 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Controls for XPIA risk from external emails in Copilot Chat
Tenant admins will now be able to control which emails can be used by Copilot for summarization, providing deterministic protection against XPIA attacks from unfamiliar domains. End users will also be equipped with UX features to see excluded emails due to policy and appropriate warnings/labels for external emails.
Requesting to cancel this roadmap item as its duplicate of 489221
ID: 488798 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025