Play of the Week
September 11, 2025
Microsoft Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. This capability is only available in English currently and can be tailored in how the review is structured. This feature is rolling out in September 2025.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for September 11, 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
Outlook: Rule to display desktop alert
Create rules that trigger a desktop alert when specific emails arrive. This makes it easier to stay on top of important messages without missing a beat. Look for the new “Display a Desktop Alert” action when setting up or editing your rules. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496142 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November 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: 496144 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD 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 Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat access to page content will soon extend to work across multiple open tabs
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge will soon be able to answer contextual questions about a user’s open window. This extends the existing capability which can only access the open page. All existing user settings and policies and DLP considerations will continue to be respected.
ID: 496364 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide
Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images.
ID: 496365 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide
Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images.
ID: 496366 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide
Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images.
ID: 496367 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: add attachments while offline in the new Outlook for Windows
We are adding more functionality to offline mode in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to add attachments while drafting your email without an internet connection. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496371 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat
Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.
ID: 496596 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Increased efficiency with auto-generated Copilot Pages
Copilot Chat can automatically create and open a Page side-by-side when it detects a relevant scenario, enabling instant editing, steering, and sharing.
ID: 497161 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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: 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: October 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 – Export download with pre-authorized link support
This update enhances the export download experience in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery by introducing support for both pre-authorized and non pre-authorized links. Pre-authorized links offer faster downloads and maintain session continuity for a specified duration. Non pre-authorized links require re-authentication after each connection loss and are needed for restricted environments that allow access only to limited Microsoft 365 IP ranges.
ID: 498160 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD 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
Outlook: Immersive Search
After completing a search in Outlook, a user will see a Copilot entry point that will take them to an LLM generated summary of their search query (emails, Teams messages and documents) within their Copilot side pane. They will be able to interact further with Copilot to dig deeper into these results and take action items accordingly.
ID: 498319 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 365: Backup Activity Logs
In product monitoring logs to track all activities related to backup policy configuration & restore related tasks. This will help admins with troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and auditing capabilities.
ID: 500019 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Preview changes before sending content live in ‘Manage what attendees see’
An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature allows organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is going to be displayed on or off the screen before sending the changes live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall.
ID: 500871 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Multi-select capability for calendar categories
In #newoutlookforwindows, users can now apply more than one category to their calendar events from the event right-click context menu. Selected categories will be indicated with a check mark within this menu. This specific update is for applying multiple categories to an event.
ID: 501453 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
SharePoint: New Microsoft 365 Copilot Skills for SharePoint Administration
We’re excited to announce two new Copilot skills in the SharePoint Admin Center:
1. Step-by-Step Task Guidance
Copilot can now walk you through the exact steps required to complete common admin tasks.
Example: “How can I find sites that are potentially over-permissioned?”
What to expect: Copilot will recommend clear, sequential instructions to guide you from start to finish.
2. Multi-Criteria Site Search
Copilot can help you find sites using multiple conditions at once.
Example: “Find sites that have been inactive for more than 60 days and are shared externally.”
What to expect: Copilot will generate a filtered list of sites that meet your criteria and suggest recommended actions.
ID: 501455 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Autopilot device preparation for Windows 365 Frontline shared general availability
Admins can use Windows Autopilot device preparation to provision their Windows 365 Frontline shared devices.
ID: 501559 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to video creation in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Quickly generate videos from a prompt, PowerPoint, PDF, or Word document with Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—now with transcript-based editing, custom media from OneDrive, natural voiceovers, brand color integration, and a redesigned scene structure for faster, more professional storytelling.
ID: 501560 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Show more results in Copilot Chat
Users can ask for additional search results during a multi-turn conversation by saying things like “show me more.” Copilot continues from where it left off, pulling in remaining relevant results to maintain context and improve accuracy.
ID: 501576 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention: DLP 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.
ID: 501591 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management: Data Security Investigations integration
Launch a pre-scoped Data Security Investigation (DSI) from an IRM case. When a data security admin identifies a risky user who needs deeper investigation, they can launch a pre-scoped investigation directly from an IRM case, allowing them to view content analysis related to that user and better assess post-incident data impact. 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: 501781 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Metadata understanding in SharePoint agents
This update will allow agents grounded in SharePoint library contents to use and reason over available metadata to better distinguish between similar documents and provide higher-quality answers.
ID: 502516 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for MacOS on Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365
This feature allows MAC endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance.
ID: 502524 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OCR Audit logs
This feature is designed to provide Audit logs for each OCR transaction; this feature is only available in Exchange and teams workload for public preview.
ID: 502527 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Similarity Clusters in AIR
We are expanding the auto-remediation capabilities in Automated Investigations and Response (AIR) to fully automate the remediation of malicious similarity clusters. Earlier this year, we introduced auto-remediation for malicious URL and file clusters. Building on that foundation, this enhancement enables AIR to automatically approve all pending remediation actions it generates—eliminating the need for manual intervention and streamlining the response process for SOC teams. This advancement significantly reduces response time and operational overhead, allowing security teams to focus on higher-priority threats.
ID: 502528 Release: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Permission details for agents in MAC
The new Unified Permissions Management feature gives admins a consistent view of all required applications and delegated permissions, along with their associated risk levels, enabling clearer understanding of consents. From the permissions tab, admins can now provide consent directly, and once granted by the Global Admin, the AI Admin Role can deploy agents.
ID: 502617 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for GCC-M
Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users.
ID: 502854 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for DoD
Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users.
ID: 502855 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC and GCC High environments (Premium)
Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC and GCC High environments. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license.
ID: 419811 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2025
SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels
SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat.
ID: 481822 Release: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store
You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store.
ID: 481824 Release: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation
Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel.
ID: 481826 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall
With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 486535 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Built in Admin role support
Microsoft Places will deliver built in admin roles to help delegate to day-to-day management of Places. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488103 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings
Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.
ID: 490051 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Silent test call
Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience.
ID: 490055 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500640 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams
After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).ID: 165707 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025