Microsoft Teams IT admins now benefit from unified role-based access controls (RBAC) across the Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management portals. This streamlined device management ensures smooth transitions between portals and consistency in environment management. RBAC is rolling out now for customers worldwide including GCC High.

Teams Audit Events for Meetings will soon be available in GCC. This enhancement will provide administrators with comprehensive insights into meeting activities, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency. Microsoft Purview Audit logs offer administrators the ability to search, filter, and export audit data for detailed analysis. These logs are essential for maintaining compliance, investigating incidents, and ensuring the security of Teams activities. The update is coming in June 2025 for GCC environments.

Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon leverage insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users will have the ability to view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time. The added functionality is coming in May 2025.

More detailed activity reports are coming to the Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal. A new feature will offer a comprehensive timeline view of a user’s potentially risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.

An update is coming for new Outlook for Windows to improve the support of .pst files. Soon users will be able to click on a person to view their details stored in a .pst file on the profile card. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. The update is currently rolling out for customers worldwide.

You can now customize which corner your Microsoft Teams notification appears on your screen. This allows you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience. The update is coming this month for all customers.

In SharePoint, the dashboard layout webpart will be available on all sites and pages, later this month for commercial customers. Currently the dashboard webpart is limited to Home Sites, it will be extended to Team Sites and Communication Sites.

Microsoft Teams admins can now create and assign multiple meeting themes to a customization policy, allowing meeting organizers who are assigned to a customization policy the ability to select from different meeting theme options while scheduling their meetings. This is available for those with a Teams Premium license worldwide.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will include risky AI usage as a trigger to monitor insider risks like IP theft, data leakage, and security violations, starting in August 2025. This feature will launch for Commercial users first, with GCC and GCC High to follow.

The secure password deployment feature in the Edge management service will enable admins to send encrypted shared passwords to certain users, allowing them to log in to websites without ever seeing the actual passwords. This secure deployment reduces the risk of unauthorized access and enhances the organization’s overall security posture. The new feature will be available worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) in April 2025.