Play of the Week
October 30, 2025
Microsoft is introducing Purview compliance portal enhancements to metadata reporting in item.csv exports and Add to Review set CSVs, including new fields such as error details, is encrypted, and sensitivity label. These updates provide clearer, more detailed insights into items processed during export and review workflows.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for October 30, 2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy
Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 68688 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD)
Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 85606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac
AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the MacOS and many of its applications. We will add support for this feature in the new Outlook for Mac.
ID: 88537 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations
All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
ID: 89975 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports
Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 93268 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds)
Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.
ID: 93269 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: iOS app multiple managed accounts
Allows people to use a single device with multiple managed accounts to access company information through Teams iOS app, with Outlook to follow.
ID: 109560 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities
Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in.
ID: 115482 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.
ID: 117425 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.
ID: 117523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets
This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.
ID: 117569 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections
Allow customers to bring their own user activity
indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business
applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks.
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: 122278 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations – single device
Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user’s device before they even realize there’s a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device.
ID: 124890 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint
Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to
extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions
defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.
ID: 139457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint
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 on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).
ID: 160008 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration
Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing customers to assess their compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services with resource-level testing and cloud-specific guidance.
ID: 167331 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope
Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 168843 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.
ID: 170738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. 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: 171185 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights
The Communication
Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of
policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items
in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps
you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay
updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over
communication compliance. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ID: 172016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope
Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies.
ID: 172024 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization
Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization.
ID: 176155 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements
This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.
ID: 181825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions
Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.
ID: 336046 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Exchange: Adding support for Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD
We are adding inbound support for SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD. Look for another roadmap item for inbound support in WW and GCC, and one for outbound support of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC.
ID: 361914 Release: Exchange – GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint
Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint.
ID: 365059 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation
Physical Windows devices will be attested at enrollment that enrollment credentials are stored in the hardware of the device. Administrators can view device attestations in the new Device attestation status report and manually force attestation from that report.
ID: 378649 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP
This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.
ID: 380678 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match
This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.
ID: 380721 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365
High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online.
ID: 382633 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search
Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.
ID: 384092 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization
To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).
ID: 386900 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE
Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool.
ID: 389857 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in webinars
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
ID: 392328 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label
Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.
ID: 392456 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label
Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.
ID: 392457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies
The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail.
ID: 392838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users
Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.
ID: 392839 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search
Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.
ID: 392842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips
ID: 394279 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Universal Print: Mobile print from the phone
Integration of Universal Print with the Microsoft 365 Copilot phone app will enable users to add work/school printers to their phones. Once the printers are installed on the phone, the user can print to them from any phone app that has a print action.
ID: 395216 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives
Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit.
ID: 395793 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator
Microsoft Edge will include an AI theme generator, that allows users to input a text prompt and generate a series of images to preview as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image on the Edge new tab page, and applying the image’s dominant color to the browser frame. Admins can restrict access to this feature using the AIGenThemesEnabled policy.
ID: 396289 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips
ID: 396575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Universal Print: Logs and alerts
With a new Azure Monitor integration, Universal Print customers can send detailed diagnostic logs to a Log Analytics workspace to conduct troubleshooting and configure custom alerts.
ID: 396782 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments
Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected.
ID: 398711 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Publish analyst reports to Viva Insights App
Viva Insights analysts will be able to publish reports they have created to specific recipients in the Viva Insights app.
ID: 398974 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop
With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.
ID: 399928 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Improved elevation detection
This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.
ID: 399933 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New ChatGPT Enterprise connector to discover and bring prompts and responses into the scope of Purview features
Using the unified Purview portal, organizations will be able to establish a connection to their ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces to discover, collect, and store contents of interactions of users with ChatGPT Enterprise into the scope of Purview capabilities and policies.
ID: 401125 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats
When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat.
ID: 401127 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers
Microsoft Purview Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is now available for all new onboarding customers. IB v2 has enhanced architecture which enables the following new features:
Large-scale segment support: The segment limit in organizations has increased to 5,000.
Multi-segment support: Users can be assigned to up to 10 segments.
Flexible user discoverability: Organizations can now choose to allow IB-protected users to discover each other while adhering to IB communication and collaboration policies.
ID: 402516 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Import support for data files in Outlook
This feature adds support for importing PST files into Outlook for Mac. Support for OLM data files will include both importing and exporting data.
ID: 405754 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment
Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment (ADE) ensures targeted apps and policies can get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup. ETG will only be part of new iOS/iPadOS enrollment policies. Admins can add a static Entra ID group into the enrollment policy, so devices will be part of that group upon enrollment, reducing latency of targeted policies and apps.
ID: 406907 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web
Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. When single clicking on an empty time slot on the calendar surface, the quick compose pop-up will no longer be shown – instead, you will be able to create an appointment by typing directly in the time slot on the calendar grid, just as you can in classic Outlook for Windows. There will be no change to double click behavior, the full compose form will still open as it does today. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 406948 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions
Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.
ID: 408533 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future.
ID: 409534 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365: Multi-Geo In-Region Routing
Multi-Geo In-Region Routing (IRR) enables customers to control the routing of inbound emails to comply with regional data regulations. Using IRR, customers can set the geo-region that inbound mail should be routed to for specific Accepted Domains. By setting Accepted Domains to specific geo-regions and then adding users to that Accepted Domain that are located in the same geo-region as the Accepted Domain is set to route mail to, IRR ensures that emails are fully processed and stored in the user’s region. This keeps data within the user’s Preferred Data Location (PDL), enhancing data sovereignty and compliance.
ID: 410245 Release: Microsoft 365, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints
Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.
ID: 410247 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Integrated apps and Copilot extensions
The Teams app usage report will be renamed to the Integrated Apps usage report and redesigned with new metrics and charts. These will provide insights into apps enabled for Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Copilot extensions) in your organization. The report will feature two sections: App Usage and User Activity. Insights will be organized by Publishing Type (Line-of-business apps, Microsoft partner apps, and Microsoft apps), Host Product (Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Copilot), and Platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web). Additionally, the report will include views of app and user details. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 410248 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Calendar support in Online Archive
Add calendar support in Online Archive.
ID: 410249 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center
Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center.
ID: 410396 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar search for email delegates
Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes.
ID: 413718 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network
Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues.
ID: 414513 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Automatically display auto-mapped calendars
Users will be able to automatically see their auto-mapped calendars when toggling from classic Outlook to the new. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 415168 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Sort by Flag option
We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
ID: 416091 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook
Delegate access for mailbox and folders can be granted from the new Outlook app. Users will be able to view the permissions granted for a mailboxes and folders. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 417063 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites
Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 417481 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on container label of a group/site/team
This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 421192 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Admin usage reports for Loop
View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.
ID: 421611 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces
Manage retention and deletion workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces like Copilot Pages when users leave the organization. Notify and provide temporary access to other employees or administrators to save important data before deletion policies take effect.
ID: 421612 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – User accessible recycle bin for Loop workspaces
When users delete a Loop workspace, owners can restore it from a recycle bin in Loop.
ID: 421615 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces
This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group’s geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator’s preferred data location.
ID: 421616 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict access action support for sematic models and lakehouses in Fabric
Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types matches your semantic models or lakehouses. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses.
ID: 422501 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.
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: 422503 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces
Ensure via optional IT admin policy that new shared Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Teams enabled Microsoft 365 Group.
ID: 422725 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events
Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 422817 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Mail Merge (Advanced) on Outlook on the Web and new Outlook for Windows
Mail Merge (Basic) will be improved upon to allow fields to be replaced by values per email address. When Mail Merge (Advanced) is launched, not only will every recipient receive their own email with only their email address in the recipients list, but the emails can further be personalized to include content such as their name. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 423047 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage
Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations.
ID: 429876 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 Backup
Perform file-level browse/search and then restore using Microsoft 365 Backup. With this enhancement you will be able to browse for files across in a site from available daily restore points and apply filters to narrow results, restore at the original location by overwriting existing content or to a new place by creating a copy of the content.
ID: 464991 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include – stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action. Currently this feature is only available for OneDrive and SharePoint workloads.
ID: 464996 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Automated device enrollment without user affinity for visionOS and tvOS
Support for visionOS and tvOS through automated device enrollment for userless enrollment with Microsoft Intune Suite including Intune Plan 2
ID: 468887 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365
Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
ID: 468888 Release: Excel, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: New enrollment policies experience for iOS/iPadOS ADE
These enrollment policies for iOS/iPadOS contains enrollment time grouping, improved UI, and removes automatic deployment of the Company Portal app and deprecated settings.
ID: 469032 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel
The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place.
ID: 470597 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Data Loss Prevention- Gain DLP policy insights with Security Copilot
Copilot for Security in DLP can summarize DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more.
DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain deeper level view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 472031 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies in Exchange
The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail
ID: 473493 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User analytics
With this feature, insights will be generated for potentially risky behaviors at a user level and will be surfaced across the following experiences:
1) Insider risk management context in DLP alert investigation
2) Insider risk management context in Communication compliance alert investigation
3) Insider risk management context in Microsoft Defender XDR user entity page
4) Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR
User analytics will cover all eligible users in the tenant including users not in the scope of any Insider risk management policy. Customers can enable/disable user analytics in their tenant from Insider Risk Management settings.
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: 475058 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Support for multicloud environments
Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and GitHub. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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 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: 475858 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on activities that may lead to a data security incident in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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 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: 475859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites
This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees.
ID: 476488 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds
With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to fine tune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts.
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: 477363 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving
This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.
ID: 477371 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Outlook: Support for enhanced calendar-sharing architecture in the New Outlook for Windows and Web
This update improves the reliability of calendar sharing and ensures that the events seen by delegates are always up to date. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 477373 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Multi-language posts
Authors of Viva Engage posts will be able to add multiple manually written translations to a single post.
ID: 478924 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Access: Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors
Remove the 22-inch size limit and modernize Access forms and reports work well on large format monitors and provide responsive behavior for different form factors.
ID: 478926 Release: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights
Usage reporting for Copilot Academy will be available in Viva Insights via the Analyst Workbench. Users can access these reports through Excel or a PowerBI dashboard.
ID: 479750 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for historical imports
This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to perform historical imports into the Viva Glint platform. This alternate reduces the number of needed files and offers a simplified user experience to bring historical data into Viva Glint.
ID: 479755 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Introducing the New Republish Feature in Viva Amplify
We’re excited to launch Republish, a new feature that keeps your content fresh, extends its reach, and maximizes engagement across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Outlook, and Teams. Update existing published content in a few clicks, re-share key messages to new audiences or channels, correct errors and refine your messaging —all without starting from scratch. Republish in Viva Amplify makes content management effortless.
ID: 480722 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Agent usage statistics per SharePoint site
SharePoint agents’ usage statistics will be available for every SharePoint site. This will be available on the site analytics page for the site owner persona. This will also include analytics on how many times source files are cited. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 480725 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights
Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 480726 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: SharePoint agent usage statistics across all SharePoint sites
SharePoint agents’ usage statistics would be aggregated across all SharePoint sites and available for the tenant admin persona.
ID: 480729 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Loop workspaces for Microsoft 365 GCC
Loop workspaces and the full Loop app experience are available to Microsoft 365 GCC customers at loop.cloud.microsoft.
ID: 481154 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365: Long-term retention period for M365 Backup
This creates the ability to set longer term retention periods to restore beyond one year.
ID: 481834 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – CSOD permissions sync in Viva Learning
Access permissions to learning content set in CSOD using Organizational Units are honored and reflected in Viva Learning.
ID: 482186 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Room recommender
If no room is booked for a meeting, this AI feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before start when two or more attendees are in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. It considers location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. You can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the invite for everyone. A Teams Premium license is required for the meeting organizer to enable this feature, which is available in Teams Mobile on iOS. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 482191 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Share apps from app bar via right click
Allow users to right-click and share apps directly from the app icon on hover, while using the app.
ID: 483355 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Personalization settings
Microsoft Purview is launching a new Personalization page which will help users personalize their individual experience on Purview.
ID: 483884 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer
With this update, IRM 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 3rd 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: 484084 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Query Editor
The Advanced Review Set Query Editor empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data. This tool enhances data analysis by offering insights such as identifying top item types, spotting patterns, and trends within the review set. Reviewers can utilize powerful query constructs like complex filtering, pattern-based text extraction, and data format parsing to analyze and find key information specific to their case or organization. The results can then be visualized using time charts, histograms, and other flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data’s story.
ID: 484086 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Authoring with M365 Copilot
Viva Pulse authors can now work with M365 Copilot to add a question, rewrite a question, and create a survey from scratch to quickly create and send their surveys to their teams to collect feedback. M365 Copilot can seamlessly capture the author’s needs to recommend survey questions that fit their unique scenario. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 484851 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy 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: 484854 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Investigations
Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations empowers data security teams to find and mitigate data risk from sensitive data exposure using generative AI-powered deep content analysis enriched with activity signals.
ID: 485707 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams
Customers will now be able to move content seamlessly from public and private channels in a third-party solution to Teams standard channels. A new first-party Migration tool on Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to connect the third-party solution workspace, plan, and perform content migration to Teams.
ID: 485709 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Rules-Based Enablement of Third-Party Teams Apps in Teams Admin Center
This feature allows M365 administrators to define specific criteria for approving third-party Teams applications within their tenant. Administrators can select from a list of predefined, safe criteria, ensuring that only trusted and compliant applications are made available under this rule.
ID: 485712 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to import emails from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485739 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to import emails from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485740 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Forward as attachment emails in a PST file in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to forward as an attachment emails in a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485750 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows
The template feature in the new Outlook allows users to create and save email templates for quick and consistent communication, streamlining the process of sending repetitive messages. Additionally, it allows for the seamless import of templates saved as .oft files. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 485758 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Efficient Review with Advanced Minimization Algorithms
Sophisticated algorithms analyze the review set and pick out the best set of documents to review while hiding redundant information. A new analytics relationship view and detailed reports for each analytic run through the new unified reporting format allow you to have confidence in the results. The analytical information is available in both our new insights experience and export load files, allowing you to easily adopt this efficiency boost into any workflow.
ID: 485766 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business
With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt. Starting with some of the top consumer GenAI apps (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek), admins will be able to block typed prompts containing sensitive data. The inline protection capability complements existing endpoint DLP controls for uploading or pasting sensitive content in the browser.
ID: 486368 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in Outlook for Mac
We will be adding declarative agents support in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in Outlook for Mac.
ID: 486696 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Investigation 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.
ID: 486827 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content
Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group.
ID: 486828 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to import calendars and contacts from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 486839 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to import calendars and contacts from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 486840 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Copilot suggests how you should RSVP to meeting requests
Copilot suggests how users should RSVP to meeting requests, based on meeting importance, availability, and working hours. With help from Copilot, users can streamline meeting request triaging, increase the number of triaged meetings, and reduce the time required for triaging.
ID: 487412 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Control Settings for agents with actions in Teams Toolkit
To give admins control over whether agent makers can publish advanced agents (agents with actions) for their tenants, we are introducing a new control in the M365 admin center. This control specifically applies to advanced agents created from Teams Toolkit. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 487847 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Full Submissions experience in GCC
We are bringing GCC admin and user submission experience to parity with WW capabilities.
ID: 488097 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Onboard to the Places Directory with AI
Seamlessly onboard to the Places Directory by using a new and improved AI-powered Initialize-Places PowerShell script. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488102 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC-H and DoD sovereign clouds
GCC-H and DoD sovereign cloud customers will be able to use features in Excel run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data found on the Data tab.
ID: 488142 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Excel – GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Automatically update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi
When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.
ID: 488800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby
Enhance in-office collaboration with Microsoft Teams’ new @nearby mention type. Easily notify teammates who are physically present in the office, streamlining communication and fostering real-time connections. Perfect for quick discussions or impromptu meetings, @nearby keeps your team aligned and efficient. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488801 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Inline discovery of sensitive data shared over the network
Extension of Microsoft Purview policies to the network by integrating Purview with your existing Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. Through this integration, admins can intercept and inspect traffic flowing through the network layer to identify the presence of sensitive data and enforce DLP policies on it.
ID: 488807 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Access: Add zoom slider magnification to Microsoft Access
Access will add magnification slider (10% to 500%) in lower right of the application, similar to the feature in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It will also be keyboard accessible and available on the ribbon.
ID: 489227 Release: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration – Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint
An intuitive report that highlights the relationships between employee sentiment items and the workplace patterns and drivers that shape engagement. This feature eliminates the need for custom analysis, enabling users to share out of the box actionable insights with leaders—accelerating decision-making to drive meaningful actions across the organization
ID: 489229 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Adding support for viewing Sensitivity labels applied to a Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) Protected PDF
Enterprise customers can view sensitivity labels applied to MIP protected PDF to be well informed of the data classification to enable them to handle such sensitive documents. This change will be available in the new PDF viewer on Microsoft Edge.
ID: 489232 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints
OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator can be used for 30 days and will not scan images for sensitive content.
ID: 489454 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: Document Libraries – A new forms experience for streamlined document collection
Introducing native forms within SharePoint Document Libraries to streamline document collection. Users can create custom forms directly in libraries for seamless file uploads and metadata submission. Forms can be shared as links within the organization, facilitating document collection without additional access. This integration enhances productivity by simplifying workflows and improving user experience.
ID: 489834 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator
IRM admins can now select any Communication Compliance (CC) Policy alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select any custom CC policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for these CC policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admins can review if there are any alerts for the user within CC under the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to CC.
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: 489838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Offline Support for Calendar – Create, Edit and Delete Event support for GCC-M
We are adding more offline functionality in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to create, edit, and delete events in your calendar when not connected to the internet. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 490060 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Introducing a new feature that brings interactive agents into your Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero state prompts and history support for seamless interactions. Currently, only agents built on Copilot support sessions, meaning they can remember the context of previous interactions within the same session for more relevant responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support. All agents from BizChat/Copilot Studio are now available for use in your meetings and calls. This feature allows secure testing and iteration, inviting colleagues for feedback without affecting sensitive data or production channels.
ID: 490564 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile
DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
ID: 491016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile
DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
ID: 491017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Operational dashboard to gain insight on EPM status and elevations.
The dashboard focuses EPM insights on rollout status as well as elevations in the environment and suggestions for new rules to create.
ID: 491027 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see”
Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In “Manage what attendees see” users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License.
ID: 491633 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: Permissions report for a given user – SharePoint admin center
This report, under Data access governance within SharePoint admin center, provides SharePoint admin with a list of sites where the given user has direct and indirect permissions at a site/lib/folder/file level
ID: 492621 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing
We’re now introducing the third generation of the Microsoft 365 sharing experience designed to make collaboration simpler, smarter, and more secure by default. At the heart of this update is the new hero link, a single, powerful link that controls access to your files. Whether you copy a link, share via email, or send the URL from your browser, you now have a seamless and consistent way to share and stay in control of your files.
ID: 492622 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New configuration option in Collection Policies for targeted detection of Enterprise AI app interactions
This category will empower admins to precisely control and optimize the signals and data collected across enterprise AI apps in Purview solutions, enable better compliance with local regulations, reduce noise from SITs and user activities that aren’t relevant to your organization to improve resource efficiency, and control ingestion of prompts and responses. These apps include ChatGPT Enterprise, apps built on Azure AI service, and Microsoft Entra-connected AI apps.
ID: 492623 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Exchange: Exchange Online Moderation approval requests via Actionable Messages
The Exchange Online Moderation feature gives message moderators the ability to Approve or Reject sending a moderated message to its intended recipients via a special email message form that includes Approve and Reject buttons in the Outlook Desktop or Outlook on the web toolbar. However, the ability to approve or reject a moderated message currently isn’t supported on Outlook for iOS, Outlook for Android, or Outlook for Mac. With this update to use Actionable Messages for moderation approval messages, moderators with mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online will now be able to approve or reject moderated messages via all the Microsoft email clients: from Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android.
ID: 492743 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal
Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview.
ID: 493319 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Delete survey cycles
This feature enables Glint Admins to delete survey cycles within a configured program. When a cycle is deleted, all associated data—including reporting—will be removed from the platform. The feature is intended for removing obsolete or test cycles that are no longer needed.
ID: 493324 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC
Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration.
ID: 493742 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Custom permissions UI enhancements in Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler
This feature borrows the familiar custom permissions menu in Office and replaces the existing custom permissions UI in the Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler. The new menu enables viewer, restricted editor, editor and owner permissions to be assigned to multiple groups at the same time.
ID: 493749 Release: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Attachments preservation for users on hold
Enables cloud attachment preservation for users put on infinite hold so that file versions shared are preserved across any OneDrive or SharePoint site. This is a new capability which is different from the existing capability of applying label to cloud attachments and links present in OneDrive and SharePoint and shared in Exchange, Teams, Viva Engage and Copilot
ID: 493752 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow
Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “All risk factors” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX.
ID: 493755 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event
Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within 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 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: 493756 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event
Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within 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 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: 493757 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
OneDrive: Transfer ownership of departing employees’ files with ease
We’ve made it easier to manage files when employees leave—account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced “Move and keep sharing” feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during employee offboarding.
ID: 493946 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Organizers reply privately to individuals
Allows Engage event organizers to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.
ID: 493949 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup capabilities available in GCC
We are bringing Microsoft 365 Backup Service capabilities to GCC. Microsoft 365 Backup is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users.
ID: 494517 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps
You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands. Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more.
ID: 495002 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Open Teams’ apps in new window
Organize your work environment to fit your needs. Users can open Teams’ apps, like Chat, Calls, Activity and more in separate windows, allowing users to view and interact with these apps simultaneously.
ID: 495003 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: October CY2025
Outlook: Editor (Proofing and Spellcheck)
Automatic spelling and grammar checking when composing an email message. Corrections are underlined on the draft, and clicking on them reveals suggested corrections.
ID: 495466 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Insert Graphic
When composing a message in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, there will be a new Graphics button under the Insert ribbon tab. This opens a panel that will allow users to search and pick from a large selection of emoji, stock photos, and stickers, which are inserted into the message when selected. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495467 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Show teammates’ calendars in the left navigation pane
Users can now see their teammates’ calendars (including peers, direct reports, and managers) automatically displayed in the left navigation pane of the new outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495468 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: A Refreshed Profile Flyout Experience for Better Clarity and Actionability
We’re updating the Microsoft Edge profile flyout to deliver a cleaner, more intuitive experience. The refreshed design makes it easier to distinguish between work and personal profiles, manage credentials, and quickly access key settings—all within a polished interface that supports modern browsing needs. With streamlined sign-in, clearer profile types, and organization branding preserved, this update enables a more efficient and trustworthy experience for customers.
ID: 495833 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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: 496141 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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
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: December 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
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Agent-Level Controls for Pay-as-you-go
This feature introduces admin controls for managing AI agents on a consumption basis within Microsoft 365 Copilot. Administrators can specify which users can access particular agents through pay-as-you-go, control which agents are available for metered consumption, and establish billing policy for each agent. Initially focusing on declarative agents in M365 Copilot Chat and SharePoint, this enhancement enables organizations to effectively manage AI consumption costs and scale intelligent capabilities according to business needs. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 496363 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall and Webinar in Teams Rooms on Windows
When a Teams Rooms on Windows is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 496368 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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: October CY2025
Outlook: New Outlook Support For GCC-High and Sovereign Clouds
New Outlook will support the connection of accounts in special environments such as Microsoft 365 GCC High, Microsoft 365 DoD, and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet (China). In this release, all mailboxes connected to new Outlook will need to be hosted in the same special environment. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496375 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – On demand classification for files on Windows devices
This capability will enable organizations to scan files on Windows devices for sensitive information to meet data discovery requirements for regulatory purposes and inform data security posture accordingly.
ID: 496593 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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
Outlook: Expand and collapse folders when moving emails
Users can now expand and collapse folder trees in the move/copy email dialog. This makes it easier to navigate large folder structures and find the right destination faster, improving efficiency and control during email triage. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497418 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Account Manager
Users can use the new Account Manager feature to learn more about their Microsoft account, display their profile picture, and add new accounts (if permitted by their organization).
ID: 497546 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Import Non-M365 data into review set for modern eDiscovery
Microsoft Purview modern eDiscovery experience now enables legal and compliance teams to import non-Microsoft 365 data directly into review set as part of the modern eDiscovery workflow. This feature allows organizations to consolidate all their data into a single secure review environment for streamlined review.
ID: 497638 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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 – GCC Tags: October 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: November CY2025
Outlook: Play a Sound Rule
Users can set up Outlook rules to play a sound or show a desktop alert whenever an email that matches your chosen conditions arrives, whether it’s from a specific person, includes certain words, or meets any other rule criteria you define. These features help you stay alerted to the emails that matter most. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497836 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October 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: March CY2026
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 Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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 Teams: Share meeting recap to SharePoint
Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details.
ID: 498494 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Add “Summarize” and “Explain” Copilot actions in PDF reader
Microsoft Edge will expand its existing “Ask Copilot” integration in the built-in PDF reader by introducing two new actions — “Summarize” and “Explain.” These options will allow users to generate a concise overview or simplify complex content within a PDF or selected portion. The new actions build on the existing “Ask Copilot” integration and follow the same enterprise controls and policies.
ID: 498641 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Additional granular RBAC controls to manage Antivirus, Firewall, BitLocker, and Endpoint Detection and Response endpoint security workloads
Expanded granular RBAC controls to manage Endpoint Security workloads. The ‘Security baselines’ permission previously included all security policies and now all security workloads have their own permission set
ID: 498899 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer
This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance.
ID: 498915 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer
This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance.
ID: 498916 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Pulse follow-ups for Glint surveys
Empower managers and leaders to gather additional context and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey by sending a personalized Pulse that uses M365 Copilot to tailor the Pulse to the team’s needs based on the Glint survey results. With Copilot-powered Pulse follow-ups, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the team’s progress to-date, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.
ID: 498917 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Wait on Send for oversharing dialog in New Outlook
New Outlook for Windows will now support Wait on Send for Oversharing.
This feature allows admins to block sending of emails in case DLP policy evaluation is not completed for labeled or sensitive content. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 498920 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Customizable Oversharing dialog for DLP in New Outlook
New Outlook for Windows will now support ability to show customizable oversharing dialog for Data Loss Prevention. The support will be to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 498921 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements
Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.
ID: 498922 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Viva Glint – Action Taking Analysis Report
Introduction of a new report that provides transparency into platform activity by dashboard users. Metrics such as report views, Team Conversations completed, Focus Areas created, and more will be visible and filterable with this report.
ID: 498923 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection- Scan existing files in SharePoint and OneDrive for business for sensitive information
This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for business for sensitive data.
ID: 499076 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Unattended Remote Help for Windows – Remote Sign-in
Remotely access devices over the cloud without requiring end user involvement by signing in with credentials.
ID: 499154 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Endpoint Privilege Management Virtual Account Support
EPM will introduce a per-rule option to run elevated apps with the original user’s identity context, preserving app data, save locations, and preferences. This offers a more personalized app runtime experience compared to the default virtual account.
ID: 499155 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Support approvals can now be requested by non-primary users of a device.
We’re updating Endpoint Privilege Management to allow users who are not assigned as the primary user of a device to initiate support approval requests. Previously, these requests would fail, but with this change, they will be processed successfully.
ID: 499156 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: AI workflows in Teams Workflows app & SharePoint document libraries
With AI workflows in the Workflows app for Teams & SharePoint document libraries, you can build custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive.
ID: 499420 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention — Always-on diagnostics for macOS endpoints (Phase 1)
This feature release ‘Always-on diagnostics’, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on macOS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on onboarded Mac devices, eliminating the need to reproduce issues when submitting investigation requests to Microsoft. It allows for the collection of detailed traces over extended periods (up to 90 days). While raising tickets to submit investigation requests to Microsoft regarding Microsoft Endpoint DLP, customers can share enhanced diagnostic information with Microsoft without needing to reproduce the exact scenario.
ID: 499432 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Excel: =COPILOT Function
Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data
ID: 499658 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Excel: =COPILOT Function
Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data.
ID: 499660 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Flexible targeting of Storyline Announcements
We’re introducing more flexible and precise targeting capabilities in Viva Engage, starting with Storyline Announcements. This new feature allows leaders and their delegates to define a custom audience at the time of posting, without relying on pre-configured Leader Audiences. Audiences can be built, and saved for reuse, using organizational attributes such as department, job title, or country, existing groups like M365 Groups, distribution lists, or security groups, and even individual users by name. This flexibility enables more relevant communication, helping leaders reach the right people with the right message. Notifications and delivery channels, including Teams and email, will continue to follow existing Storyline Announcement behavior, ensuring a seamless experience for recipients. This feature is designed to help leaders tailor communications to specific departments, locations, or groups, enhancing engagement and relevance across the organization.
ID: 499895 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: January CY2026
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: November 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
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 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: October CY2025
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: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance
We are updating private channels to align with compliance model for all channels. After this change, compliance policies applied to the team (M365 Group) will apply to all channels in the team – across standard, private, and shared. Private channels will no longer need user level targeting of policies different from other channels, and private channel compliance messages will no longer be copied to user mailboxes, relying on a dedicated, internal mailbox per channel like shared channels. In addition, limits for private channels will be increased so each team can have more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit per team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels.
ID: 500380 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Custom search folders
Users can create Custom Search Folders in Outlook to automatically surface emails that match specific criteria such as sender, subject keywords, categories, date ranges, among others. Search folders update in real time and give you a focused view of the messages that matter most, without moving them from their original location. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500392 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: See progress when running rules manually in the new Outlook for Windows and Web
When you choose “Run Rule Now” in Outlook, you’ll now see a visual progress indicator in both the message list and the rules page, showing that the rule is actively being applied. This helps confirm the action is in progress especially for large mailboxes, so you’re not left wondering if anything is happening. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500395 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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 Management
ID: 500396 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: App Deployment in Teams Admin Center
We’re introducing a new admin setting that replaces the Installed apps section in app setup policies, enabling more streamlined per-app deployment control. With controls to pre-install the app for : all users, specific users and groups, or no users.
ID: 500637 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Organization chart in the Profile Card for Web and Desktop
With the new org chart users will not only be able to contextaulize a person, they will also be able to scroll through visited profiles, see a manager’s reports counts, and more.
ID: 500696 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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 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: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Graph APIs for Standard eDiscovery Cases
Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses.
ID: 500869 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
SharePoint: Updated Document Library User Experience
We’re updating the SharePoint document library experience to more closely align with the user experience in OneDrive – while making it easier than ever before to access the valuable functionality unique to document libraries. When you’re working in a document library, we’ve brought custom views and filters front and center – just like in OneDrive. We’ve also redesigned the command bar to help you take action, faster. All your view customization tools are now grouped under one simplified menu, making it easy to apply conditional formatting or organize items by metadata in seconds.
ID: 500870 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – 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 Management.
ID: 500894 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents
Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied. Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled
ID: 500895 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] No-Code Publishing for Azure AI Foundry Agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store
Developers can now publish Azure AI Foundry Agents directly to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store with a simplified, no-code experience.
ID: 501112 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Gracefully handle Foundry agents that will either be blocked or will work with sub-optimal experiences
Gracefully handle Foundry agents that will either be blocked or will work with sub-optimal experiences
ID: 501113 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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 Backup for organizations in Intune
Windows Backup for Organizations will be generally available in Intune with controls for backing up and restoring backups in OOBE. Backup and restore experience of user settings, especially for enterprises transitioning to Windows 11.
ID: 501437 Release: Microsoft Intune – 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: 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: 501450 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video recap in Copilot Chat
Video recaps in Copilot Chat makes it easy to catch up on recorded meetings directly in Copilot Chat. It identifies and extracts key topics from transcripts, provides AI generated narration to summarize discussions, and pairs these with 20–40 second video snippets highlighting impactful moments of your meeting.
ID: 501452 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search
Find meetings—and everything connected to them, in seconds.
Copilot Search makes it effortless to locate any meeting, even if you only remember a few details. Just type what comes to mind—like “last week’s design review”, “budget sync with marketing”, or “next quarterly planning session”—and Copilot instantly finds the right event.
Copilot doesn’t just show you the meeting invite. It brings together the full context: who attended, what was discussed, what files were shared, and what follow-ups were assigned.
Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming meeting or trying to recall what was decided in a past one, Copilot gives you a complete, connected view—all from a single search bar.
ID: 501454 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: 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: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Recovery Lock management for macOS
This feature adds the ability to manage the password used to access the macOS recovery partition. Configuring a recovery OS password prevents users from booting company-owned devices into recovery mode, reinstalling macOS, and bypassing remote management.
ID: 501457 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November 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: January CY2026
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 3rd 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: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Customize AI-generated notes in meeting recap
Users can now customize the AI-generated notes in meeting recap, instantly transforming meeting notes into the format that works best for each person. Choose from built-in options like Speaker Summary or Executive Summary to quickly surface the details that matter most. Users can even create and save their own custom templates with a simple prompt, so meeting notes always match the way each user prefers to work.
ID: 501540 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
The new page in the Pro Management portal provides proactive recommendations based on your organization’s environment and upcoming events that can impact devices, such as support or certification expirations. Admins are prompted to update device and account data enabling rich insights from the portal, and guidance based on space and device usage data is coming soon. This feature helps admins maintain smooth operations and plan and budget efficiently. At least one Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Devices license is required for access.
ID: 501546 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October 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 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): Replace stock video footage with AI-Generated Images in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Easily swap stock visuals for AI-generated images in your videos using the Create experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Powered by OpenAI’s latest image generation model, this feature helps you tailor content, explain concepts more clearly, and help make your videos stand out.
ID: 501570 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can create and deploy custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors across Microsoft 365.
Admins can create custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors in the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre and deploy them across Microsoft 365. This will allow admins to surface their organization’s custom data in Microsoft 365 Copilot via these MCP-based connectors.
ID: 501585 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Updated Regional Benchmarks for employee feedback
Viva Glint will refresh its Country & Region external benchmark suites for 2025. These updated benchmarks provide organizations with more accurate and current comparative insights into employee feedback across geographies, enabling better-informed decisions and more relevant action planning.
ID: 501590 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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
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 Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies
Microsoft Purview Endpoint data loss prevention is expanding coverage to Copilot + PCs initially to support Recall snapshots and determining whether policies exist to prevent capture of windows containing restricted sensitivity labels and Sensitive information types (SITs). Purview admins will author Endpoint DLP custom policies to integrate with Windows Copilot + PC Recall setup by Intune admins for Copilot + PC devices exclusively.
ID: 502519 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Improvements in call transfer experience on Teams Phone devices
New call controls and streamlined transitions enable simple and seamless transfers for Teams Phone users on Android devices.
ID: 502521 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via macOS native experience
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that enables Mac users to share their screen or specific windows using the built-in native macOS sharing experience. This is Mac only, user opt-in experience.
ID: 502523 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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), GCC Tags: January CY2026
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): [Copilot Extensibility][Search UX] Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results
Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results.
ID: 502533 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Unique Counting of EDM Matches
Providing a new mode to count EDM Matches where each row is counted once in addition to the current behavior where each primary element is counted once
ID: 502551 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 in Copilot Studio (embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot experience)
Create GPT-5-powered agents using Copilot Studio (lite), the embedded agent-building experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
ID: 502552 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Calendar mini-month date selection updates
Users can now perform the following actions on the mini-calendar in the #newoutlookforwindows, allowing them to view custom date selections on their calendar. Click and drag to select multiple weeks at a time. Using Shift+click or CTRLl+click will select non-consecutive dates. Moving months via the arrow icons in the mini-month will also update the main calendar surface.
ID: 502562 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Permission and Privilege level of Apps and Agents
Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view the permissions requested by an app or agent—these permissions define what organizational data the app can access. This feature enhances that experience by showing the risk rating of each permission and the overall privilege level of the app or agent, helping admins better secure organizational data and make faster, more informed approval decisions.
ID: 502842 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate icons using AI in Copilot Studio lite
A picture is worth a thousand words. Before, Copilot Studio agent builders would need to use the default icon or manually upload their own image. This process meant browsing the web for an image, asking different teams for icons, or manually drawing one. Users can now use AI to describe how the icon should look like, thus helping inform end users of the agent’s function more easily, with more expression. Users can now generate icons using AI in the lite version of Copilot Studio in M365. Users can enter custom prompts or use the description of the agent to generate the icon. Alternatively, users can manually upload their own icon or select from a set of pre-created icons. Icons are capped at 1 MB (192px).
ID: 502864 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Graph APIs for App & Agent Inventory and Details.
Microsoft 365 will introduce new Graph API endpoints designed to empower IT administrators and developers with robust programmatic access to app and agent management across Copilot, Teams, Outlook, and other MetaOS hosts.
Key Features:
• Inventory API: Retrieve a comprehensive inventory of all apps and agents within your tenant, with advanced filtering by type (1P, 3P, LOB, Shared), host (Copilot, Outlook, Teams, Office), last updated date, and more. This enables bulk management, compliance checks, and streamlined governance for large organizations.
• Details API: Access detailed metadata for any specific app or agent, including availability, deployment status, supported hosts, creator information, version, sensitivity, categories, and capabilities (such as Graph connectors, knowledge sources, and plugin actions). This supports auditing, lifecycle management, and integration into existing IT workflows. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 502875 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Security and Compliance information for more Apps and Agents
Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view security and compliance data for apps and agents that are Microsoft 365 certified or publisher attested.This enhancement expands that visibility to include apps and agents that are not certified or attested.Where available, this data is sourced from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) and helps admins more easily and quickly evaluate whether an app or agent meets their organization’s trust requirements.
ID: 503102 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows
When in a meeting with another Teams Rooms on Windows that has multiple cameras, you can switch camera views in that room via the participant panel on the console, or video tile on a touch board, to optimize your views.
ID: 503104 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Availability Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center
Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage agents and apps that work across Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot will be able to apply their changes consistently across all these surfaces. Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, app and agent availability will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 copilot.
ID: 503105 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Call history Admin control
Teams admins can now control whether Teams meetings and calls appear in users’ iPhone call logs.
ID: 503106 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Domain exclusion for web grounding
This feature will allow admins to specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 503144 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: User Schema Enhancements – Delete Attributes
This feature enables Viva Glint admins to delete custom user attributes directly in the platform. This empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.
ID: 503148 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Policy Setting to Require Explicit Consent for Recording and Transcription in Teams 1:1 Calls
We’re expanding the capability to require explicit consent for recording and transcription to include 1:1 calls in Microsoft Teams. A new setting in the Teams Calling policy allows admins to enforce this requirement before recording or transcription can begin. When a user with the policy initiates recording, transcription, or both in a 1:1 call, the other participant is automatically muted, with their camera and content sharing turned off. The participant will see a prompt asking whether they consent to be included in the recording and transcription.
ID: 503295 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town halls through ‘Manage what attendees see’ [Teams Premium]
The enhanced “Manage what attendees see” experience enables organizers to take their Town hall presentations to the next level. Organizers and presenters can apply layouts, backgrounds, theme colors, and name tags to deliver events that are polished, professional, and highly engaging. This feature is available to organizers with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 503299 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Authoritative content management for Microsoft 365 Copilot Search
Specify and manage SharePoint sites deemed as authoritative content to enhance their relevance and ranking in Microsoft 365 Copilot Search. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, under Copilot > Search > Authoritative content, add and manage up to 100 SharePoint sites. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 503553 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Email messages
Organizational Messages now includes Email as a delivery channel, expanding beyond existing surfaces such as the Windows Taskbar, Windows Notifications, Windows Spotlight, and Teams Popovers.
ID: 503562 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Action Segments
Action Segments empowers IT Admins to target Organizational Messages using dynamic, pre-defined usage segments. This behavior-based targeting approach goes beyond existing static group definitions, ensuring messages reach the most relevant users.
ID: 503563 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices
Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices.
ID: 503564 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Adding protection against malicious sideloaded extensions
Microsoft Edge will detect and revoke malicious sideloaded extensions.
ID: 503593 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents
Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents.
ID: 503772 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention-Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents
Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied. Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled.
ID: 503780 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search for meetings organized by a specific person
: This feature allows users to search for and find meetings using Copilot Chat that were organized by a specific person to make it easier to review and manage their calendar.
ID: 503859 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security
Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.
ID: 505444 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Apps in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams
Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific shared channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts.
ID: 505791 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365: PAYGO consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs
Use the new PAYGO consumption-based meter to pay for your extra SharePoint storage needs. This reduces the operational overhead associated with purchasing extra storage packs and more seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Archive.
ID: 506743 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft 365: Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup
Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup enables administrators to configure backups by granular scopes—such as departments, geographic locations, or member firms—and manage pay-as-you-go charges across multiple Azure subscriptions. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), department-specific backup administrators can be assigned, ensuring management control, and tailored backup management aligned to organizational boundaries.
ID: 506744 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection-Aggregate option in Export-ContentExplorerData cmdlet
The Aggregate parameter switch returns the folder level aggregated numbers instead of returning details at the item level. You don’t need to specify a value with this switch.
Using this switch significantly reduces the export time. To download the items in a folder, run this cmdlet for specific folders.
When you use this switch with the TagName, TagType and Workload parameters, the command returns the following information:
SiteUlrs: OneDrive and SharePoint.
UPNs: Exchange Online and Teams.
The count of items stamped with that tag.
ID: 506745 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection-Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer
This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email inside content explorer.
ID: 506746 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Miracast support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices
In addition to Teams Cast and HDMI ingest; you are able to share wirelessly using Miracast with Teams Rooms on Windows devices including touch boards. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 506748 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins
Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time.
ID: 506750 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New Create module with Word, Excel and PPT templates
New Create module within M365 Copilot App to access Word, Excel and PPT templates.
ID: 506847 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Sharing Copilot Notebooks
Users can share a Copilot Notebook they’ve created with others. All references, instructions, and context in the shared notebook will be accessible to collaborators, while your chats remain private.
ID: 506851 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Desktop Visual Search
Quickly send images to Bing Visual Search from the Edge Desktop Search Bar to identify images, people, animals, and shows; extract, copy, and translate text while keeping its format. Solve questions quickly in various subjects and get trusted information to boost your knowledge. Discover products, fashion, recipes, identify a location and more. Available on Windows devices. Admins can control availability to this feature using the VisualSearchEnabled policy.
ID: 508519 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Tab Search
Tab Search helps users stay organized by letting them quickly find and reopen recently closed tabs or search across all open ones in a single view. From the same menu, they can also enable Vertical Tabs, access the AI-powered Organize Tabs feature, and open Workspaces.
ID: 508520 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows
When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 508521 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find Exactly What You Need, Faster
Now you can filter your search as you type. Use person and source filters right in the Search box to refine results instantly. Get smart suggestions and see only what matters, all without leaving the box.
1. When “person” or “source” is typed, a list of relevant filter suggestions appears. This helps auto-complete the filter expression and enables effective pre-scoping.
2. Once filters are applied in the Search box, all subsequent suggestions are refined based on those filters.
ID: 508529 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint
Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you’re refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more.
ID: 508530 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – General Availability for the GCC High environment
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will be generally available for the GCC High environment, and it will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC High compliance boundary.
ID: 509107 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Open channels in a new window
You can now open channels in a separate window to stay on top of multiple conversations at once.
ID: 509110 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
PowerPoint: Find and add company approved images in PowerPoint with Organization Images.
Browse your company’s approved logos, icons, and photos right inside PowerPoint—no need to search elsewhere. Stay on brand and compliant with easy access to your organization’s asset library and connected image sources.
ID: 509111 Release: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Add references to your Copilot Notebooks from the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app
Users can quickly add references to a Copilot Notebook through the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app.
ID: 510099 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Enhanced Search Experience in Win32
After executing a search in classic Outlook, users will have the option to easily opt into seeing an AI generated summary of their search results in their Copilot side pane. They can ask further questions in their chat, navigate to cited files and emails, or go back to their email experience easily.
ID: 510107 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Enforce DLP protection upon new content before its saved
Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share.
ID: 511791 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Communication Compliance-Timeline view of user activity
This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user’s potentially risky interactions. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user’s history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.
ID: 511792 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video Overview in Copilot Notebooks
Video overviews in Copilot Notebook generate concise, Copilot-powered videos with narration, visuals, diagrams, and text overlays—making it easy to summarize the content of your Notebook.
ID: 511793 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
OneNote: Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Web
Users will now have access to their Copilot Notebooks on the web version of OneNote.
ID: 511797 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enhancements to variant limits and detection groups
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management variant limit is being increased from 3 to 10 per indicator and an overall limit of 100 across all indicators. Along with this, the number of items in one detection group is being increased from 200 to 500.
ID: 511798 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Optimizing Version History for lists and libraries
We’re improving version history for SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries generated with grid view editing. This change improves reliability, reduces storage, and streamlines the user experience by consolidating multiple edits into one where possible. Automation rules and flows, if configured with item level edits, will also now trigger more efficiently.
ID: 511800 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Analytics
New analytics experiences available that complement the new Viva Engage Events.
ID: 511812 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report
Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies.
ID: 511816 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Users can search for their settings in the Teams settings app
Within the Teams Settings app, we are now allowing the user to search for their desired setting through the search text box.
ID: 512427 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks
Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.
ID: 512430 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: 1080P Resolution in Teams Town Halls
Teams town hall will soon bring 1080P resolution to Teams town hall. This enhancement brings a sharper appearance with more visual clarity to videos, images, and other visual assets within your online events. This feature is available for town halls created by organizers with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 513270 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone who has an email address
Start a chat with anyone who has an email address, even if they’re not on Teams! They’ll receive an email inviting them to join your chat session as a guest. You’ll be able to chat, share files, and start calls all within Teams!
ID: 513271 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams
Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration.
ID: 513274 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements
Align the community feeds default experience with expected user behaviors; support triage and content review for users who want to read every message in a community.
ID: 513275 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Hide a user in Viva Engage
The hide user feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center.
ID: 513276 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Block posts with theme moderation
Theme moderation in Engage will soon offer an option to block message creation if content aligns with a theme. This change expands on the previous release to monitor and mute content based on themes.
When a theme is blocked, users will see a message explaining why their message can’t be published. Users can edit or discard the message.
Admins and corporate communicators can control where blocks happen across storylines and communities. Leaders, corporate communicators, and network/verified/Engage admins cannot be blocked regardless of theme.
ID: 513277 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru for Internal Knowledge and Insights
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru with Copilot connectors to retrieve internal knowledge and team insights.
ID: 513281 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enable Microsoft 365 Copilot Integration with SharePoint Server
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to SharePoint Server with Copilot connectors to query and manage enterprise documents.
ID: 513284 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.
You can now adjust the length of your presentation, the tone of your narrative, the style of your slides, and leverage AI-generated images when creating with Copilot.
ID: 513430 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.
You can now adjust the length of your presentation, the tone of your narrative, the style of your slides, and leverage AI-generated images when creating with Copilot.
ID: 513431 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365: Cloud Update – Rollback All Devices
Use rollback all devices to quickly revert updates for all device managed by cloud update and on the latest N-0 release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
ID: 515152 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Tickets to triage and resolve customer issues with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Tickets to triage and resolve customer issues with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515157 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515158 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Aha! to manage product features and customer ideas with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Aha! to manage product features and customer ideas with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515159 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with 15Five to surface team priorities and recognition with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with 15Five to surface team priorities and recognition with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515160 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with PagerDuty to access escalation policies and on-call schedules with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with PagerDuty to access escalation policies and on-call schedules with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515161 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query GitLab Merge Requests and Content with Copilot
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to GitLab with Copilot connectors to query knowledge base content and merge requests
ID: 515162 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Integrates with Adobe Experience Manager
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Adobe Experience Manager with Copilot connectors to query and summarize web content.
ID: 515164 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Coda Docs and Wikis with Copilot Connectors
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Coda with Copilot connectors to query collaborative documents and wikis.
ID: 515165 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Miro Visuals with Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Miro with Copilot connectors to query visual boards and diagrams.
ID: 515166 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Structured Data via Copilot Connectors for PostgreSQL
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to PostgreSQL with Copilot connectors to query structured data
ID: 515167 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Connector for DataStax Now Available
Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to DataStax with Copilot connectors to query insights from distributed databases.
ID: 515168 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515175 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Trello to organize boards and cards with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Trello to organize boards and cards with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515176 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515177 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Shortcut to manage agile development workflows with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Shortcut to manage agile development workflows with Copilot Connector.
ID: 515178 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams
Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on ‘Add agents and bots’ from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group.
ID: 515465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Channel agent to 3P MCP tool orchestration in Teams channels
Agent-MCP Orchestration in Teams enables Channel agent to work with select third-party MCP servers, such as GitHub, Asana and Atlassian (JIRA). This setup allows collaborative workflows that mirror real human teamwork. When a user asks Channel Agent a question, the agent can collaborate with other tools to gather information or complete tasks, transparently showing each step of its reasoning along the way.
ID: 515466 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Agent Support in Copilot Notebooks
With Agents in Notebooks, use the specialized skills and knowledge of Agents on the content that matter most to your task at hand, whether it’s transforming complex data into clear insights and visualizations with Analyst, or creating stunning designs with Designer.
ID: 516041 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: PDF Viewer Performance Improvement and Minor Visual Updates
The PDF Viewer in Microsoft Edge is migrating to WebUI2, enhancing responsiveness and introducing a series of subtle visual upgrades aimed at improving overall usability and utility. This migration ensures UI coherence with the rest of the browser while maintaining the same user experience.
The update focuses on improving underlying performance, consistency in design elements, and a smoother interaction without altering any existing workflows for users.
ID: 516043 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot voice support in Word & PowerPoint.
Chat in Work and PowerPoint now supports voice. Users can talk and interact with Copilot to brainstorm ideas, create content, and analyze information. Same as text, voice understand documents, work and web context.
ID: 516569 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – Add Sample to Review Set
This feature allows users to add only a sampled subset of search results to a review set, rather than adding the entire query output. Users can configure sampling parameters—such as confidence level and sample size—to ensure the subset meets their review objectives while reducing unnecessary data ingestion.
ID: 516578 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story’s narrative
Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides.
ID: 518212 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story’s narrative
Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides.
ID: 518213 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story’s narrative
Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides.
ID: 518214 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): App Navigation Pane Update
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app now has a simpler, cleaner navigation. Key updates include an expanded chat history, quick actions to create new Notebooks and Agents, and intuitive feature grouping so users can find what they need faster and unlock more AI value.
ID: 518222 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Android
When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Android, users will see a preview experience where they can use M365 Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the file. If users wish to edit the document, they will transition to the standalone Word, Excel, or PowerPoint app. PDF scenarios are not affected. The feature will begin a phased rollout in December.
ID: 518290 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to 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: 520772 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot for GCC Moderate
We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, and user-level activity insights (anonymized by default). #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 481835 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Calendar support for copying, cutting, and pasting events and appointments
Customers can now copy, cut, and paste meetings and appointments on their calendar in the new Outlook using CTRL+C, CTRL+X, and CTRL+V keyboard shortcuts. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 483489 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments
Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 488808 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Built-in PDF reader powered by Adobe engine
Microsoft Edge will launch the new version of the built-in PDF reader that’s powered by Adobe’s PDF rendering engine. The new PDF reader ensures that there’s no loss of functionality and delivers an enhanced PDF experience. This experience includes richer rendering, improved performance, strong security for PDF handling, and greater accessibility.
ID: 489231 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint
The new Workflows app is to provide an experience that is both simpler and faster to enable everyday Teams and SharePoint users to create automations in three steps or less.
ID: 491632 Release: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Benchmarks
Compare Copilot active usage with benchmarks in Copilot Dashboard. External benchmarks will provide a reference for how usage compares to other companies. Internal benchmarks will enable users to compare similar groups, within your company. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 495464 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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: October 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: October CY2025
Outlook: Global Address List Redesign
The Global Address List, or Address Book, is getting a major visual redesign to make it easier to navigate, show more contact information in the search results list, improve its accessibility, and improve its appearance overall. This window is accessible via the To/Cc/Bcc buttons in the email compose form. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 498897 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: eSignature – Free Text Field Support
SharePoint eSignature users would be able to add custom free text fields to their request documents. This new eSignature field can be used to request information (such as address, full name, etc.) from signers.
ID: 499024 Release: SharePoint – 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: October 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: October 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: October 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: November 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: 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: 500631 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad
When users on iPhone and iPad 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, the file will be uploaded to chat. 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: 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 Teams: Audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing available for Gov clouds
IT administrators for Gov cloud customers now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Microsoft Purview Portal. Available for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD cloud environments.
ID: 500893 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October 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
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: 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 Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms on Android
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: 502525 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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: Forwarded Messages Links
When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation.
ID: 503099 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speed Up App Reviews with Trust-Based Filters
This feature enables IT Administrators in Teams admin center to view and easily filter apps and agents by specific industry standards, certifications and compliance attributes such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. This will help with more streamlined app evaluation workflows, enabling faster decisions and broader access to trusted apps across the organization.
ID: 503100 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automated Investigation & Response (AIR) Platform Modernization – User Submission Playbook
We are modernizing the AIR platform for increased scalability and speed of AIR investigations to deliver the user submission playbook faster including quicker verdicts and faster resolutions.
ID: 503108 Release: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-tasking for Meetings
Teams on iPad will now support a separate popout window for meetings, enhancing multi-tasking capabilities.
ID: 503109 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook
Easily summarize your email and attachments with Copilot chat in a single click. This will be available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who have pinning enabled. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 503316 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Metadata Field Enhancements in Process Reporting
Introducing enhancements to metadata reporting in item.csv exports and Add To Review set CSVs, including new fields such as error details, isEncrypted, and sensitivity label. These updates provide clearer, more detailed insights into items processed during export and review workflows.
ID: 506220 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Websocket Support for Tunnel MAM (iOS)
WebSocket support for Tunnel enables secure, real-time communication for apps using WebSockets. It supports JavaScript WebSockets through web views but doesn’t fully support iOS native APIs like NSWebSocket.
ID: 491026 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.140 – Improved Navigation to Extension Surfaces
To improve visibility and discoverability, Microsoft Edge is introducing two navigation improvements for extensions. First, if a user has at least one enabled extension, the puzzle icon will be persistent on the toolbar. Second, from the Settings and more menu, the Extensions option will allow users to reach edge://extensions and the Edge Add-ons Store directly.
ID: 497141 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.141 – Real-time video translation
If you’re learning a new language, or just like to watch foreign videos with subtitles in your preferred language, Microsoft Edge can help. With real-time video translation in Edge, you can watch videos in a different language with translated audio dub. Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, hardware configuration (minimum 12 GB RAM and 4-core CPU), region, and platform. Availability is limited to select markets. Admins can control availability to this feature using the LiveVideoTranslationEnabled policy.
ID: 503301 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot – usage intensity
To give organization administrators and adoption managers better visibility into usage intensity of Microsoft 365 Copilot , the Copilot usage report will be updated to include the tenant-wide count of prompts submitted in total and per-user average. The report will include a count of prompts submitted and the active usage days per user for the selected time period (anonymized by default).
ID: 503860 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Microsoft Tunnel – Gateway Scaling
Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5000 to over 20,000 per server. CANCELED – This feature is no longer planned.
ID: 178921 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats
*The roadmap item is no longer accurate. We will publish an update in the future.
Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later.
ID: 374335 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Real-time notifications (Live Activities) for Teams meetings on iOS lock screen
We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1).
ID: 412616 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report
We will not be proceeding with this feature at this time and will provide a new Roadmap ID when available.
Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 488104 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025