Play of the Week
August 14, 2025
Microsoft is adding more email indicators in Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview as triggers. The first one is sending email with attachments to free public domains. Second, sending email with attachments to self. Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these triggers in the data leaks or data leaks by priority users template.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for August 14, 2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.
ID: 325873 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Teams Channels in Context IQ
Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
ID: 429645 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a natural, hands-free conversational experience to your desktop and mobile devices – enabling you to talk to Copilot like a colleague, unlocking a faster, more intuitive way to work. Speak directly to M365 Copilot to search for information, catch up between meetings, brainstorm out loud, and do it all in multiple languages.
ID: 481138 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Preview of multiple camera view in Teams Rooms on Windows
When multiple camera views are enabled in Teams Rooms on Windows, the preview video on the front-of-room display and the camera settings dialog will show multiple camera views. This feature allows in-room users to be aware of all camera streams that are simultaneously streaming to remote users. This feature is available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 496148 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Personal email triggers
In this update, we are adding the recently added email indicators in Insider Risk Management as triggers. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains – Users will be brought into scope of a policy when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. 2. Sending email with attachments to self – Users will be brought into scope of a policy when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user’s personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident.
Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these triggers in the data leaks or data leaks by priority users template.
ID: 496149 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Lifecycle Management- Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete content on OneDrive and SharePoint Online
We’re introducing a new capability in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention policies and delete content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online before the hold or retention policy duration expires. This feature helps organizations manage Copilot-related artifacts—such as Teams recordings and transcripts—independently of OneDrive retention polices, so organizations can decide how long they want to keep and when to delete this content.
The feature includes support for simulation testing, audit, and disposition reviews, and introduces admin policy authoring flows. These flows are governed by Microsoft Purview role groups to enable the creation and enforcement of defensible deletion policies.
ID: 496151 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views
Scoped access enables managers to view Copilot insights specific to their own organizations both on the Copilot Dashboard and in additional Copilot reports on the Reports page. This allows leaders at different levels to monitor adoption and impact within their teams, while respecting organizational boundaries and privacy. Admins can configure access criteria and set minimum thresholds.
ID: 497111 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Theme accent colors
Make Teams feel more like your own with new customization options. Customize Teams colors by choosing your favorite theme accent color—just like you can in Outlook.
ID: 497139 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Document snapshot in Word personalizes output
The document snapshot helps the user focus faster by surfacing the most important information for them based on their personal context.
ID: 497297 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat Tools Control
Tools acts as a lightweight entry point into high-value, task-specific Copilot features and capabilities directly from the prompt box. By selecting Tools, users get a menu where they can easily discover and trigger the right Copilot feature or capability for their current task, while also providing consistent interactions across tools.
ID: 497298 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Enterprise and Web Grounding for Draft with Copilot
Draft with Copilot now has access to your enterprise data to help you craft high quality emails grounded in the right context. You will be able to review the sources used to generate your email draft before you send the mail.
ID: 497670 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Copilot Proactive Drafts
Copilot will detect emails that are most likely to need a response and pre-generate three options for you review and select from. Save time and energy responding to high priority emails with proactive drafts.
ID: 497671 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Quick steps in the pop-out ribbon
Quick Steps are now integrated into the ribbon of email pop-out ribbon in the new Outlook for Windows and Web. Users can access and execute their configured Quick Steps directly while reading emails in separate windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497834 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) – Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive
Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information. With Embedded support, OCR will scan content in DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and PDFs (scanned and hybrid containing searchable text and images). This will be in addition to support for standalone images
ID: 497912 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope prompts to specific Channels in Teams in Copilot Chat
Users will be able to scope their prompts to specific Channels in Teams to get more focused responses when using Copilot Chat.
ID: 497915 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Update document sections from new sources
Easily refresh parts of your document using content from other files—without copying and pasting. Copilot keeps your formatting intact while pulling in the latest updates from new sources.
ID: 497939 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard
As a Microsoft Purview user, you’ll be able to view outages, service issues, and advisories that might impact your services. This new dashboard will combine the services and solutions health of Purview, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Cloud Services in one central place in the Purview portal, eliminating the need to go to several places to find this information.
ID: 497944 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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 365 admin center: Agents usage report
A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair.
ID: 497999 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Chat Notes
A new collaborative space is now available directly from your Teams chat, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. Chat notes is available in 1:1 and group chat, and is accessible only to the chat members. Add images, format text, share Loop components, and mention chat members when you require their attention.
ID: 498159 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Microsoft Purview eDiscovery – Guest access for export downloads
This feature allows external guest users to securely access and download export packages from Purview eDiscovery cases, with administrators able to set restrictions such as allowed IP addresses and token expiration to support secure external collaboration.
ID: 498160 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center
Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center
ID: 498226 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [Data Loss Prevention] – [Admin units support for SharePoint Online]
Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.
ID: 498230 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Tip Support in Outlook for Mac
DLP policy tips for Microsoft Outlook for Mac provide real-time notifications to users when their email contains sensitive information that violates organizational policies. Users can see policy tips directly in the mail tip UI and have the option to remove non-compliant recipients or override the policy if necessary. This feature ensures compliance by alerting users to potential data loss risks before sending emails.
ID: 498491 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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
Outlook: New Scheduling and Event Creation Experience
The Outlook and Teams calendars will receive an update to the scheduling and event creation experience. Additionally, new capabilities will be available in this new experience to help streamline and enhance scheduling using Copilot.
ID: 498914 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Studio agent report in Insights enhanced with autonomous agents.
Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Viva Insights) – 1. Inclusion of agents with “generative” orchestration 2. Autonomous agent adoption and impact (maker led time and cost saving).
ID: 499422 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame support on Teams Rooms on Android
Now Cloud IntelliFrame, the AI-based cloud technology that optimizes views of in-room participants for hybrid meetings, is available for Teams Rooms on Android using group framing. It is set as the default in those rooms, while remaining disabled by default in others. Admins can manage this behavior through console settings.
ID: 499614 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced privacy and stability for live captions
To improve privacy, when transcription is off, captions will now show only the past five minutes of dialogue instead of the full meeting. If transcription is on, captions display the entire conversation, just like with live transcription. We’re also fixing an issue where changing the caption position could cause data loss—now, moving captions will not affect the text shown. These updates also apply to Real-time Text (RTT), ensuring a consistent and reliable experience.
ID: 499616 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize captions on Mobile
Live captions are now available on mobile devices with enhanced customization options, making captions easier to read and follow during meetings. You can personalize your captions by adjusting the font color, caption background color, and caption height. These enhancements ensure captions remain accessible and comfortable, especially under varying lighting conditions or when you’re on the go.
ID: 499620 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Android
Users can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see in Teams Rooms on Android. Currently, live captions display in the spoken language by default, this change allows individuals to select their own experience. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 499800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Support for multiple camera views and IntelliFrame from Teams Rooms on Windows in Teams webinar and structured meetings
Multiple camera views and IntelliFrame (Multi-stream and cloud) from Teams Rooms on Windows are now available in Teams webinar and structured meetings with “Manage what attendees see” enabled. Organizers and presenters of these meetings can access intelligent camera views and bring them on the live stage for attendees. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 499894 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Live event using Teams Town hall in Viva Engage
Community admins can now produce or stream their broadcasts using Teams Town hall, offering higher-quality production and enhanced functionality.
ID: 499896 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – M365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics
Insights on M365 Copilot Chat adoption for users not licensed for M365 Copilot. Insights will include usage trends over time, adoption by group, retention, and app level breakdowns. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover adoption patterns. Admins can disable M365 Copilot Chat insights in Microsoft Admin Center.
ID: 499899 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Send Button update
This feature reduces accidental message sends by moving the send button from the bottom of the compose view, in the compose toolbar to the header of the compose view. By moving the send button to a less crowded location, users can avoid accidental taps, resulting in a more intentional and error-free messaging experience.
ID: 499900 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Storyline & Post Enhancements, Cover Photos, Drafts, AMAs, and More
Over the course of the next few months, you’ll see a set of updates that make it easier to create, manage, and personalize posts in Viva Engage. These include Storyline cover photos and featured posts to further customize your Storyline page, the ability to draft and schedule posts in advance, support for AMAs, and the ability for a delegate to post-on-behalf-of on Storyline. Whether you’re a communicator, leader, or team member, these features will help you engage your audience with greater clarity and customizations.
ID: 500018 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
OneNote: Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels in OneNote
Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels in OneNote will allow users to classify and protect OneNote Sections with the same compliance standards available across Microsoft 365 apps. Users will be able to apply labels directly within OneNote, ensuring sensitive content is encrypted, access-controlled, and compliant with the organization’s policies.
ID: 500020 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for DoD
Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters.
ID: 500242 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Newsletters
Newsletters in Outlook enable customers to create, distribute, and track success for their internal email newsletters. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 328282 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Saved messages
Quickly get back to important information without scrolling through long conversations. You can save messages, whether it is a post, a reply or chat message, and find them later in the Saved view in your Chat or Teams list. Click on a saved message to open the full conversation in the right pane, where you can review or reply directly.
ID: 496369 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Edit and manage Teams Town Hall instances in Outlook
Organizers and co-organizers can now easily edit the details of Teams Town Hall instances. A direct link to the Teams Town Hall edit page is now accessible from Outlook calendar. This enhancement brings the same seamless editing and registration management experience already available in webinar, bringing a consistent experience across all event types.
ID: 496986 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat now supports more file types in search grounding.
We are expanding the file types supported in Copilot Chat to align with the Microsoft Search experience.
ID: 492268 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.139 – New Autofill Personal Information Settings Configuration
A web form field collection consent toggle will be available in Autofill settings (edge://settings/autofill/personalInfo). This will allow users to consent to Microsoft Edge collecting web form field labels (e.g., “First Name,” “Email”) to improve Autofill suggestion accuracy. Only field labels are collected and not user-entered data. This new setting is manageable via existing policies in Autofill (e.g., AutofillAddressEnabled, AutofillMLEnabled). AutofillAddressEnabled is the parent setting for AutofillMLEnaled. The AutofillMLEnabled policy is the parent of this new setting, thus turning off the AutofillMLenabled policy will turn off this setting.
ID: 494844 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business from showing in the toolbar
Edge for Business will now have a dedicated policy (Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled) to enable and disable Copilot in Edge from showing in the Edge toolbar.
ID: 496140 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for EDU customers ages 13 and older
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 EDU users ages 13 and older who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. Admins must take action to enable access.
ID: 497916 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025