Play of the Week
September 4, 2025
Improved optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information through the compliance portal. 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. The update is coming in September 2025 across GCC, GCC High and DoD environments.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for September 4, 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 Places: Microsoft Places Support to GCC cloud
Microsoft Places features will now be available in GCC cloud
ID: 495465 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Prepurchase Capacity Packs for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
This feature integrates pre-purchased capacity packs into Microsoft 365 admin center for M365 Copilot Chat. Administrators can apply pre-purchased message capacity to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat before incurring pay-as-you-go charges.
ID: 496139 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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: October CY2025
Excel: Formula completion with Copilot in Excel
This feature leverages AI to autocomplete the user’s formula upon typing the ‘=’ sign. It provides context-based suggestions, streamlining the formula creation process by offering intelligent and relevant completions.
ID: 496370 Release: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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 Viva: Introducing Viva Engage Role Management APIs on Microsoft Graph
We’re excited to announce that Viva Engage Role Management APIs in Microsoft Graph are releasing soon. These new APIs enable IT admins to programmatically manage Viva Engage-specific roles, including Corporate Communicator, Network Administrator and Verified Administrator. With these APIs, one can automate role assignments, retrieve role data, and streamline admin workflows across organization. Previously, roles such as Global Administrator, Yammer Administrator, and Knowledge Manager were already supported via Microsoft Graph through Entra. This update expands that capability to include all Viva Engage roles—bringing greater flexibility and control to your admin experience. The APIs are now available in beta version for allowing users to test and share their feedback as we prepare for the general availability.
ID: 497131 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Summarization, Translation, and Citation will soon be supported by Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in our menus
Menus in Edge where the user has highlighted content in the browser will soon support a summarization, translation, and citation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
ID: 497135 Release: Microsoft Edge, 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: November 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: 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 CoPilot (Microsoft 365): List email attachments in M365 Copilot
Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot.
ID: 497909 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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 Center
ID: 498226 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds
Design and edit images, posters, banners, infographics, text drafts, and forms with Copilot—align them to your brand using kits built by you or your team.
ID: 498548 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search based user RSVP status
Users will be able to search for meetings based on Self RSVP and Others RSVP status in Copilot Chat. Example prompts for a user looking for their own RSVP status include: “Meetings I have accepted/declined/marked tentative for today” “Did I accept Project OKR review meeting” “List all events I have not RSVPed”. Example prompts for a user looking for other individuals’ RSVP status include: “List RSVP status of attendees for the review meeting” “Who all have accepted the next meeting?” “Will Sarah attend Project review meet?”
ID: 499429 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Snooze, Pin and Ignore in the read pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web
Snooze, pin, and ignore actions are available in the read pop-out ribbon in Outlook for Web and Windows to improve triage efficiency and user control. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500390 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat-centered experience for creating new documents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad
In the Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad, users will see a chat-centered experience to create documents, enabling them to describe the document they want to create in a prompt.
ID: 500632 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Join town halls and webinars as an attendee from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android can now join Town Halls in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for Town Halls on the Teams desktop app. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 500702 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich Bing web answer cards on M365 Copilot
M365 Copilot will be showing the rich and interactive Bing web answer cards like Weather, Stocks etc. to relevant queries to enrich the responses.
ID: 500865 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Glint – User Schema Enhancements – Custom Age and Tenure Derivations
This feature enables Viva Glint admins to create and manage custom age and tenure derivations directly within the platform. It empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.
ID: 500868 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings
Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings.
ID: 501107 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: User reporting for incorrectly identified security concerns
Microsoft Teams now allows users to report messages they believe were incorrectly flagged as security concerns. This feature is available in one-on-one chats, group and meeting chats, as well as public and private channels.
ID: 501202 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Control External Access by Domain for Specific Users and Groups
Gain granular control over external communication. By setting custom External Access policies, you can define domain allow/deny lists and assign them to specific users or groups – capabilities that were previously tenant-wide only (“Teams and Skype for Business users in external organizations”). Use this to pilot with a department, restrict high‑risk roles to approved partners, or open federation broadly where appropriate. Example: Allow Group A to communicate only with a specific domain, while Group B can communicate with all external domains.
ID: 501275 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to OneDrive file browsing experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPad and iPhone
Users on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPad and iPhone devices will be directed to the standalone OneDrive app for file browsing and management. While users can still access their most recent files and search for OneDrive content within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, advanced actions like folder navigation, permission settings, downloads, and deletions must be done in the OneDrive app.
ID: 501277 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: Content Management Assessment (CMA)
The Content Management Assessment (CMA) helps tenant admins quickly evaluate site health, permissions, and lifecycle readiness—all in a single, actionable dashboard. It brings together multiple SAM reports, including Site Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Data Access Governance (DAG), and delivers clear, tailored recommendations to strengthen governance and prepare for Copilot onboarding.
How it works:
– CMA streamlines a process that was once manual and time-consuming:
– CMA automatically runs backend APIs to generate reports such as SLM and DAG.
– Results are presented in a clean, easy-to-read dashboard with actionable guidance.
Preview highlights:
– Clearer, more accessible UI
– Refined tooltips and issue categories
– Easier navigation across reports
Getting started:
1. Open the SharePoint Admin Center.
2. Go to Advanced Management.
3. Select “Start a free content assessment.”
4. Review results and explore tailored recommendations.
5. Share your feedback to help shape future improvements.
ID: 501427 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Windows Quality Update management policies
Manage individual Windows quality updates including non-Security and out of band updates. Choose which update types to automatically approve and the rollout options for those approvals.
ID: 501449 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune settings available in Catalog and Account Protection template for Adminless feature
Adminless settings able to be configured in settings catalog and account protection template.
ID: 501456 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Move conversation feature toggle
Engage admins and network admins can change access to the move conversation feature with this new toggle. This feature helps customers manage how messages move across communities. When disabled, only admins, corporate communicators, community admins, and community experts can move conversations. When enabled (default), any user with access to a conversation can move it.
ID: 501458 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM
With this update, the generative AI apps indicators will be supported as triggers in Risky AI usage policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the generative AI apps indicators are used to determine risk score. 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: 501538 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer
With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the discovery of sensitive files and text shared to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer. This capability is based on integration with third party network partners (with data being captured via network layer). 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: 501539 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: People count captured by Cloud IntelliFrame in the Pro Management portal reports
Admins get enhanced visibility into room usage from Pro Management portal reports with detailed occupancy data captured by Cloud IntelliFrame during meetings. This insight helps IT more effectively plan and optimize meeting spaces, and is currently available for Teams Rooms on Windows licensed with Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 501547 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights
Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by removing the requirement for 50 M365 Copilot licenses, allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns.
ID: 501581 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Collection policies impact on IRM
With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by Insider Risk Management policies 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: 501582 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-helper troubleshooting through Diagnostics page
Admin should be able to troubleshoot device health and policy sync health through Diagnostics page.
ID: 501592 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: User based alert aggregation
User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior.
ID: 501786 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal
We’re excited to announce UX improvements to the DLP Alerts Portal in Purview to help you triage incidents faster and more efficiently. What’s New: 1. Unified View: Events related to each alert are now available directly on the alerts page — no need to switch to new tab or drill down. 2. Faster Access: Access event details (e.g. Impacted assets) with just 1 click on the main alerts page itself, compared to 4 clicks earlier, reducing triage time significantly. 3. Enhanced Context: We’ve added 4 new columns – Location, DLP Rule name, DLP Policy name, Rule Action to display key alert and event attributes upfront — giving you more visibility at a glance. 4. Performance Boost: Cache improvements to ensure faster load times and a smoother experience. These updates are designed to streamline your workflow, reduce response times, and give you the context you need — all in a single, efficient view.
ID: 501787 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft Defender for Office Tenant Allow block list for domains.
Security admins can use the Tenant Allow/Block List feature in the Microsoft Defender portal to block domains for Microsoft Teams.
ID: 492985 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments
The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments. This update includes a UI refresh and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Apps, and Notebooks.
ID: 495116 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Copilot Chat – Usage intensity and new app coverage
The Copilot Chat usage report will include metrics on prompts submitted and expanded coverage across new host applications. Admins will now see total and average prompt counts at both tenant and user levels, along with user activity insights such as active days and last activity dates. Additionally, the report introduces visibility into Copilot Chat usage within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—enabling better tracking of adoption and engagement across these core Microsoft 365 apps. All metrics focus on unlicensed users and support export functionality for further analysis. User-level information is anonymized by default.
ID: 495549 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Folder Deletion Warning for Rules
Outlook will show warning when you try to delete a folder that’s used in a rule. This helps prevent accidental rule breakage and ensures your email flow remains uninterrupted. You’ll be prompted to review or update affected rules before the folder is removed. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496143 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
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: August CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot search
A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for search in Microsoft 365 Copilot. The report will include total search queries, average search queries per user, search usage trends, and per-user usage insights.
ID: 497545 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft Managed storage)
With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage – the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, selecting storage in policy workflow.
ID: 497838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Intune: macOS Platform SSO Support
Enable logging in on a managed Mac using your Entra ID password.
ID: 383952 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs
Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors.
ID: 384067 Release: Microsoft Viva – 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 Intune: Enhanced Device Inventory for Windows Devices for Government Cloud (GCCH)
Gain more inventory information about your Windows devices. Choose which device properties you want to collect from which device and then view that information for your devices.
ID: 408170 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft 365: Protection unit-level offboarding for Microsoft 365 Backup
Ability to permanently delete, after appropriate grace period, protection units from the backups. A protection unit is defined as a OneDrive Account, SharePoint site, or Exchange Online shared or user mailbox being protected in the Backup tool.
ID: 464994 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse users can assign other users as delegates
Viva Pulse users can now assign other users as delegates to create and send pulses on their behalf.
ID: 479753 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint agent web part
SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages.
ID: 481512 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August 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