Play of the Week
August 21, 2025
Microsoft Teams will soon support noise suppression for dial-in participants. This feature automatically filters out background noise (e.g., traffic, typing) for users who join meetings via phone. It enhances clarity and reduces distractions for all meeting participants. The feature will be rolled out gradually but can be enabled earlier through the Teams Admin Center.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for August 21, 2025
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 Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices
Following further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as “launched.” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).ID: 486366 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 companion apps- a suite of apps designed to enhance productivity
Microsoft 365 companions is a suite of apps, including People, File Search, and Calendar, designed to enhance productivity through quick access to key tools directly from the Windows 11 taskbar. These lightweight apps integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365, allowing users to efficiently look up contacts and navigate organization charts, locate files, view calendars and streamline workflows without distractions.ID: 486856 Release: Microsoft 365, Windows – 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 Teams: Noise Suppression for Dial-In Participants in Teams Audio Conferences
Microsoft Teams will soon support noise suppression for dial-in participants. This feature automatically filters out background noise (e.g., traffic, typing) for users who join meetings via phone (PSTN). It enhances clarity and reduces distractions for all meeting participants. The feature will be rolled out gradually. However, if you’d like to enable it yourself, you will be able to do so via the Teams Admin Center:
1. Go to Meeting policy 2. Navigate to the Audio & video section 3. Set Noise suppression for dial-in participants to Enabled or programmatically with MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell by setting NoiseSuppressionForDialInParticipants setting inside of CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to “Enabled”.ID: 496150 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint
A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes.ID: 496654 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a FAQ page based on content in Copilot Notebook
The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a FAQ page based on your notebook content—no prompt writing needed.ID: 497133 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a Brief page based on content in Copilot Notebook
The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a Brief page based on your notebook content—no prompt writing needed.ID: 497134 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – 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
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. #newoutlookforwindowsID: 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 imagesID: 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 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 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 CenterID: 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 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 Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms
It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface, and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms.ID: 499615 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Export Executive Summary report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides
Managers will be able to export the default sections from the Executive Summary report in Viva Glint directly to editable PowerPoint slides. This enhancement allows for easier and quicker consumption of this report outside Viva Glint, compared to the previous export method which included static screenshots.ID: 499661 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Raise hands in Town Hall
Currently in a Teams Town hall, attendees cannot raise their hands and share their microphone and camera as they can in a meeting. With this new update, town halls organized by users with Teams Premium will allow attendees to raise their hand like they would in a standard Teams meeting. The ability to raise a hand can signal to organizers and presenters, who can then bring attendees on screen to allow them to share their camera and microphone.ID: 499889 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Facilitator
agent for scheduled and ad-hoc meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows
Users can now use the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows for real-time notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings using AI. In hybrid meetings, the agent appears in the notes panel. For in-person meetings, a participant can scan the QR code on the display in the room to invoke the agent as the group’s assistant.ID: 499891 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Weaponizable File Type Protection for Teams Chat and Channels
Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks.ID: 499892 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Malicious URL Protection for Teams Chat and Channels
Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increasing protection against malware attacks.ID: 499893 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Immersive events in Microsoft Teams
Host interactive virtual events with avatars in customizable 3D spaces. Schedule immersive events from your Teams calendar and join events directly in Microsoft Teams on PC or Mac. Organizers can customize an immersive event’s 3D space with images, videos, and 3D models, no coding skills required. Attendees can mingle in the 3D space and engage with different features that provide a rich interactive experience.ID: 500017 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone
When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user’s file.ID: 500159 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Unified Exclusion list
Unified Exclusion Lists in Copilot Analytics provide a single, streamlined way for admins to exclude users—both unlicensed and licensed—from all Viva Insights reports and Copilot Dashboard. This ensures consistent, privacy-compliant data control across the entire platform. Admins can manage exclusions easily through one list, simplifying configuration and safeguarding sensitive user data without impacting other organizational HR data.ID: 500161 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Edge: HTTPS First Mode
HTTPS-First Mode in Microsoft Edge automatically upgrades HTTP connections to HTTPS when possible. If a site doesn’t support HTTPS, Microsoft Edge shows a warning to highlight the security risk. This appears only for public sites—not private ones or manually entered HTTP URLs. Users can enable the warning in edge://settings and admins can control availability to this feature using the HttpsOnlyMode policy.ID: 500162 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Larger file upload support in Copilot Studio agent builder
Copilot Studio agent builder in Microsoft 365 will support larger file uploads of up to 512 MB.ID: 500375 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admin control for org-wide agent sharing
Admins can manage who can create org-wide agent sharing links for agents built in Copilot Studio Agent Builder for improved governance and flexibility of agent sharing.ID: 500376 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Support for emails in ContextIQ
Users can include an email in their prompt as a reference by typing ‘/’ and selecting one from the ContextIQ menu. Copilot Chat will reference the included email as part of its response. This feature applies to users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (Copilot Chat users) and to users with a license (Microsoft 365 Copilot users) when they are toggled to web scope in chat.ID: 500377 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management
We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization ManagementID: 500396 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone
When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user’s file.ID: 500631 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone
When users on iPhone choose the action to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file from a third party app (including Files) and choose Microsoft 365 Copilot as the target app, they will automatically be redirected to a Copilot Chat session in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app with the file summary populated. Users will then have the option to open a preview of the file, or continue their conversation with Copilot Chat.ID: 500633 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Collaborate using Pages in Channels
We are bringing Pages to your Teams Channel experience. Create and collaborate using Pages directly in any of your channels.ID: 500634 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Android
The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.ID: 500635 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Session Persistence Enhancement
This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress.ID: 500638 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Collection policies support in IRM
With this update, IRM will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. For device indicators based IRM policy, required collection policies will be automatically created in the background. 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: 500639 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: File tab in Ribbon
The File tab provides new Outlook users with the ability to easily discover account info, settings, PSTs, and more directly from the ribbon.ID: 500640 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content
When drafting content that’s based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content.
ID: 380841 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content
When drafting content that’s based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content.
ID: 380842 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage
With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.
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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 394281 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Slide control for presenters
Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars.
ID: 484844 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Drag and drop files between accounts as attachments
You will now be able to drag emails and files from one account and drop them in another account as attachments in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 493289 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: SQL-like commands in the search bar
Efficiently narrow down your search results by using SQL-like commands in the search bar. Users can quickly filter messages, files, or conversations with precise queries such as from:username, with:username or in:channel.
ID: 496590 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
ID: 497136 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Dedicated download option for tracking all registrations in Webinar
Event organizers can now download a distinct registration report (separate from an attendee list) from the Reports section of a Webinar, in order to have visibility and information about all registrants for a particular webinar instance.
ID: 498490 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Regional Settings Separation
Regional Settings Separation in Microsoft Teams is designed to give users full control over UI language, date, and time formats – either synced with their OS or set manually – for a seamless, globally personalized experience that also addresses common synchronization issues.
ID: 498895 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Save an audio overview from Copilot Notebooks to OneDrive
Save the audio overview that you have generated within a Copilot Notebook to OneDrive so you can download or share with others.
ID: 499152 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.139 – Edge Settings Improvements
Edge Settings is migrating to WebUI2 to boost page responsiveness and introducing a series of minor visual and content upgrades to improve overall usability and utility. This includes optimizing for concise wording of individual settings, simplifying the number of pages and reorganizing content, and creating a cohesive user interface.
ID: 419809 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Graph API support for directory objects
Microsoft Places will now support Graph API to allow CRUD (Create, read, update and delete) operations on Places directory objects. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488101 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on emails with sensitivity labels
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is extended to preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot from processing emails with sensitivity labels. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in emails as enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the labeled emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experiences. This feature only works for emails on or after 1/1/2025.
ID: 489221 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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
Microsoft Teams: Voice Commands via Siri for Teams Meeting on iOS
We will not release this feature this time. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Building on the Siri voice commands for iOS, this capability enables users to call someone or ask Copilot to summarize a meeting through Siri voice commands
ID: 490049 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2025