Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates

Outlook: Save an Event as a Draft on Android

You can save a meeting as a draft on your calendar if you aren’t ready to send the meeting invites. When composing an event with at least one attendee added, select dismiss and then select Save as a Draft. The draft event will show on your calendar as [Draft] along with the title of the event.

ID: 496595 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025

SharePoint: eSignature – globally available

Microsoft’s native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from Word & PDF documents in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the documents leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft. This capability will be now be available in all markets with the exception of China, Indonesia and Terkieye.

ID: 497419 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places Support to GCCH and DoD

“Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work. Places helps organizations reimagine flexible work with AI, enables employees to connect more easily in person so that they can make the most of in-office days.

ID: 497998 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Clipchamp video start page

The Clipchamp start page new unified hub is a revamped video hub start page experience of a single video destination for creation, discovery & consumption.

ID: 498229 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025

Outlook: External tag in profile cards

For users that are external to your organization, an “External” tag will be shown in the top part of their profile card.

ID: 498231 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook

Users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can now easily summarize emails in a single click, using Copilot chat. Users must have access to Copilot chat and pinning enabled to utilize. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 498320 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Custom font and theme support for Viva Amplify

Viva Amplify now supports custom themes and fonts published to Brand Center, empowering communicators to align their campaigns with brand identity and visual consistency across channels like Outlook and SharePoint.

ID: 498322 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams optimization in Amazon WorkSpaces

New VDI solution for Teams introduces multimedia offloading and optimization solution for Microsoft Teams when running in Amazon WorkSpaces (Personal and Pools).
Users of the WorkSpaces Client for Windows can enjoy a high-definition experience in virtual desktops, where audio/video/screensharing are offloaded to the user’s device and processed by the SlimCore media engine.
This entry applies to WorkSpaces only (AppStream is not supported).

ID: 498355 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: View and moderate private community content without being a member

This feature enables verified admins and Engage admins to access and moderate private community conversations without needing to be members of those communities. Admins will also be able to manage community settings, ensuring better governance and oversight across Viva Engage.

ID: 498493 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Unified Conversations (Chat History) List

We’re making it easier to find what you need. This change will mean that users now see a single, streamlined list of all your conversations. No more switching between tabs or wondering where to look for specific conversations. Just select a conversation and you’ll pick up in the same context and mode as where you left off.

ID: 498545 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Enhancements for smarter authoring

We’ve made some exciting updates to Viva Amplify’s authoring experience that will take your content creation experience to the next level. With our latest release, Copilot is now smarter and more helpful than ever, leveraging your files, like Word documents, and even meeting content, to generate high-quality communications with ease. Here’s what’s new: 1. Smarter prompt tuning We’ve fine-tuned how drafts and rewrites are handled, resulting in clearer, better-formatted output that aligns with your tone and goals. 2. Create content from files and meetings You can now use Word and Excel files, or even meeting recordings, as inputs to help generate content. Whether you’re working from a doc, a spreadsheet, or a conversation, Copilot in Amplify helps you turn ideas into polished messaging. 3. Unified content generation flow We’ve migrated to a common service that brings a consistent and scalable experience across all your AI tools in SharePoint and Viva Amplify. What’s more, generated content now appears in real-time, making the experience smoother and faster. These updates are part of our continued investment in delivering an intelligent, seamless authoring experience.

ID: 498546 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025

SharePoint: Sections with Copilot

Sections with Copilot is a new SharePoint authoring tool that allows users to create full-fidelity SharePoint sections with just a prompt. It works by first looking at the context of your page to offer prompt suggestions for what content you need next to offer a starting point. Next, you either select one of those starting points or write your own and optionally ground in a relevant file.

Once you click generate, Sections with Copilot then leverages the knowledge and content already inside of your organization and on your page to create rich sections that go beyond just image and text. This could mean meeting transcripts, recent documents, or any other knowledge Copilot has access to, added to an existing page with a click of a button.

If the output section isn’t quite right, you can then use AI refinement to make changes to both the content and layout of your section, without ever touching our traditional authoring tools. Some examples include “change the background image”, “add John Smith’s contact information”, or “make the text more professional”. You can also get different suggestions by clicking “regenerate” and then choosing your favorite one to refine further. With Sections with Copilot, you can create content faster than ever before, no matter your SharePoint skill level.

ID: 498547 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – New Pulse customization options

Authors will have new options when starting surveys, including choosing to send without pre-defining an audience, and feedback can instead be gathered by sharing a link that people can access the survey and respond through, sending a survey without a specified end date, allowing for longer-term data collection and multiple responses from recipients over time, and collecting identified responses, where answers are attributed to the person who submitted them.

ID: 498639 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025