Play of the Week
April 10, 2025
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.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for April 10, 2025
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: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work context suggestions in Copilot Chat ContextIQ menu
Copilot Chat will suggest prompts and work context you have access to as you type in the prompt, helping you find relevant information for your conversations.
ID: 481135 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint agent web part
SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages.
ID: 481512 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Role-based Copilots (Copilot for Sales) can extend Summarize in classic Outlook for Windows
This feature enables licensed users to use a role-based Copilot (like Copilot for Sales) to provide content for Copilot in Outlook’s Summarize experience. This roadmap item tracks availability in classic Outlook for Windows.
ID: 481560 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agents in Copilot Chat available on Edge Sidebar
Use agents in Copilot Chat on Edge Sidebar to simplify tasks.
ID: 482410 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Calendar support for copying, cutting, and casting events and appointments
You 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: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Select some text, and instantly get helpful options from Copilot
The Copilot icon in your document margin gives you a variety of actions you can take on your selected text. One click lets you rewrite, get editorial coaching, and more.
ID: 483952 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft 365: Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team
Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery App, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery App.
ID: 485183 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference People from your enterprise in Copilot in Word
Users can now reference People from your enterprise while generating content in Word.
ID: 485722 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings
Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document.
ID: 485729 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings
Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document.
ID: 485730 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Data Assessments
Data assessments in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by viewing default assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.
ID: 485767 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP: – App or App Group Restriction support for Edge browser
Previously, Purview Admins could not restrict Edge browser access to sensitive files through Restricted apps or app groups. With this feature, apps or app groups can be configured to be blocked in Edge, including a message showing policy violation info.
ID: 485769 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI
Microsoft Purview AI Hub has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI). Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts.
ID: 485771 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP Mac device management support for additional MDM solutions
Endpoint DLP is extending support to Mac devices managed by additional third party MDM solutions other than the currently supported JAMF or Intune.
ID: 485798 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios
For endpoint DLP customers trying to override a DLP soft warning policy tip. In its current implementation, the end-user must re-initiate the print job for the intended result; whereas with this enhancement the override will be stored for a period of time and execute the print job.
ID: 486369 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Edge to enforce USB, network, and printer group restrictions on files
Purview Admins can now use either Removable USB device, Network Share, and/or Printer groups within DLP policies, these restrictions are now extensible to the Edge browser experience.
ID: 486370 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows with Cloud IntelliFrame
If facial recognition is enabled in organization policies and you’ve enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms on Windows using Cloud IntelliFrame will recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature available with Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 486692 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
PowerPoint: Email Notification Context Previews for Files Protected with Microsoft Purview
Notification emails for mentions, tasks, comments, and replies will now contain context previews even when the source document is encrypted, and the email will inherit the document’s security policies.
ID: 486822 Release: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Word: Email Notification Context Previews for Files Protected with Microsoft Purview
Notification emails for mentions, tasks, comments, and replies will now contain context previews even when the source document is encrypted, and the email will inherit the document’s security policies.
ID: 486825 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhancements to global exclusions in IRM settings
In this update, we are making the below enhancements to IRM exclusions to reduce alert noise. 1. Keyword logic update for email – An email will be excluded from scoring only when all the attachments match the keyword exclusions or email subject matches the keyword exclusions. This will be helpful to reduce the email signature noise which commonly contains keyword “image”. 2. Keyword exclusions on both target and source file paths – For signals like file copied to removable media, keyword exclusions apply on both target and source file paths. 3. File path exclusions for removable media – We will start supporting file path exclusions for removable media. 4. Exclusion support for browser – Domain exclusions are now supported for browsing indicators. 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: 486826 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April 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: July CY2025
Outlook: Edit from This and All Following Events
You can now edit a recurring event from a certain date forward by selecting “This and All Following Events”
ID: 486835 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Outlook: Change how Shared Mailboxes are displayed in the folder pane
To conform with the behavior of classic Outlook for Windows, we are moving Shared Mailboxes to be displayed in the same way that Accounts are displayed and adding a Shared icon to give users a visual distinction between standard mailboxes and Shared Mailboxes. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 486837 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hunting on Teams Messages
We are introducing three new Advaned Hunting tables designed to facilitate hunting of Teams messages containing URLs within your organization.
ID: 487411 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Specify who can manage the screen in Town hall
A new option in Town hall lets organizers designate who can manage the screen during the event. Now selected individuals will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience.
ID: 487432 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Detect sensitive content that’s being shared in meetings
Screen content shared during a meeting is protected by detecting sensitive content and alerting the presenter and organizers when it appears.
ID: 487433 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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.
ID: 487847 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Integrated apps
Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared apps in the Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly in the Shared agents tab.
ID: 487857 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP
This allows the customer to DLP to protect for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact when using Microsoft Purview Information Protection client to apply sensitivity label to these file types.
ID: 487859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Unified attachment flow on Teams Mobile
Introducing a new content picker for Teams Mobile! Attach any type of content, whether files or media, from the paperclip icon in the compose overflow menu. Our unified attach flow makes it easy and intuitive to attach content from any source location.
ID: 488091 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Bi-directional Calendar Syncing between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams
Businesses using Google Workspace for email and calendaring can now enable bidirectional synchronization with Microsoft Teams through the Teams Admin app. This enhanced sync ensures that events created in either platform are seamlessly reflected in both, improving scheduling efficiency and minimizing the risk of missed meetings. With this update, all calendar events including incoming, outgoing, existing, and new are fully synchronized. This feature is being rolled out gradually. When rollout is complete, you can sync up to 50,000 users per tenant.
ID: 488093 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Clipchamp: Windows Widget
With Microsoft Clipchamp Windows widget, Windows 11 users will have a quick way to launch screen recording, camera recording and create video projects.
ID: 488099 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Clipchamp: Camera Update
Camera in our editor will be updated to a newer version with improved recording controls and command bar options.
ID: 488100 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Customizable organizational statement for authors and responders
Organizations can provide employees with guidelines based on their company policies as survey authors and respondents, along with default Pulse privacy guidance.
ID: 488105 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Compliance to support Generative AI Applications 
Detection, processing and storage of interactions done on Enterprise AI and AI applications such as Security Copilot, Copilot Studio and others under Microsoft Purview Data Compliance solutions including Data Lifecycle Management, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance will begin using a pay-as-you-go pricing model on May 1 in preparation for general availability. Microsoft Purview Audit will only use pay-as-you-go pricing for audit logs related to non-Microsoft Enterprise AI and AI applications. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat data (with or without a Copilot license) will not be impacted by these new pay-as-you-go meters.
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory and compliance violations (for example 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 ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 488495 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Queues App to add Monitor Whisper Barge and Takeover
Authorized users will be able to enter into a monitoring session with selected agents for private coaching. They can listen to customer calls, whisper to the agents for private message, even barge into or takeover the call.
ID: 473884 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Quick sharing of files in Teams
Share a file from a chat conversation, Shared tab or a channel post to 1:1 chats, group chats, or channels with fewer clicks. When files are shared, their permissions are maintained, ensuring that recipients have the appropriate access rights. You can add additional information to your message and @mention recipients for greater clarity and alignment.
ID: 475852 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications on web
You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen when using Teams on web. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity.
ID: 480720 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Simplified Notes pane in meetings
We are updating the Notes pane in meetings to streamline the design and make key controls more clear. First, we are renaming the header from “Meeting Notes” to “Notes” to match the pane’s name in the meeting toolbar. Second, the file-level controls like “Open in new window” and “Copy component” are combined into a single header at the top for simplicity. As part of the single header, the control to open the component in the Loop web app will be found in the ellipses menu in the top header and no longer in the Pages icon.
ID: 482398 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Sort by category
This adds the ability to sort by category in Outlook for Mac.
ID: 416092 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.136 – Authorized Group Setting in Microsoft Edge for Business
The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for “Printer groups,” “Removable USB device groups,” and “Network share groups” in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance.
ID: 422502 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.136 – Feature Usage Data Sync
Edge Sync, which enables users to synchronize their Edge user data across multiple devices, is now launching a new sync data category called Feature Usage. This new category will allow users to synchronize data regarding their utilization of Edge features across all their devices.
ID: 464208 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025