Play of the Week
April 24, 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.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for April 24, 2025
Outlook: Custom Instructions for draft with Copilot
Give Copilot some instructions about your emails – like the tone, length, greeting – so your Copilot generated drafts sound more like you want them to. #newoutlookforwindow
ID: 366572 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Excel: Enable “View Side by Side” on Mac
You can now quickly compare worksheets in the same workbook or in different workbooks by viewing them side by side with synchronous scrolling and reset window positioning on Mac.
ID: 367423 Release: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Simplified App Control policy creation experience (curated workflow)
Configure an App Control policy with built-in toggles in the console that expose all App Control for Business capabilities.
ID: 397885 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Collaborative authoring
Multiple authors can collaborate on a Viva Amplify publication at the same time.
ID: 413115 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Additional Teams publishing capabilities (also for frontline workers)
You will be able to publish your messages to any Teams channel and to frontline workers through Teams channels using our new Amplify communicator in Teams. To iterate on this, we are also working on publishing to 1:1 chat.
ID: 477368 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices
Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users.
ID: 479760 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
ID: 482601 Release: SharePoint, 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, 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: 483949 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Fix all spelling and grammar issues with Copilot
One-click solution to fix spelling and grammar errors in the document
ID: 483954 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Copilot Pages on your mobile phone
Create Copilot Pages from Copilot Chat on your mobile phone to continue working on the go.
ID: 485720 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Copilot Pages from Copilot Chat on your mobile phone
Create Copilot Pages on your mobile phone to continue working on the go. Pages shared in Microsoft 365 are interactive and automatically synchronized for seamless collaboration.
ID: 485721 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly launch the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your iOS device
Press the Action button or ask Siri to launch Copilot on your iOS device.
ID: 485724 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Apply watermark to PDF
OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it.
ID: 485796 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sessions Grouped by Time frame
This feature will provide users conversation history list structure through grouping conversations by time frame to make it easy for users to visually parse.
ID: 486464 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Shared with Me Settings page
New Settings page will give users details on the permissions they have for Shared folders and mailboxes they have added in the new Outlook for Windows and web.
ID: 486836 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Use table of contents in PDF
OneDrive for Web can now display a table of contents if it’s already in your PDF. You can click on the line item to jump directly to the location of that page.
ID: 486859 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Department Graph
New graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displaying the departments of users interacting with AI apps.
ID: 487441 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Place Management portal
Places Admins can use a user-friendly interface to manage their Places directory data such as create, view and edit buildings, floors, sections, rooms and desks.
ID: 487860 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Full Submissions experience in GCCM
We are bringing GCC-M 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 – Graph API support for directory objects
Microsoft Places will now support Graph API to allow CRUD (Create, read, update and delete) operations on Places directory objects
ID: 488101 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Built in Admin role support
Microsoft Places will deliver built in admin roles to help delegate to day-to-day management of Places.
ID: 488103 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report
Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights.
ID: 488104 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
SharePoint: Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries
When you select an item in OneDrive on the Web, the Copilot button appears, offering a range of actions you can perform on that item. The same feature and actions are coming to document library views in SharePoint and Teams.
ID: 488297 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups
Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted.
ID: 488298 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups
Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted.
ID: 488299 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Controls for XPIA risk from external emails in Copilot Chat
Tenant admins will now be able to control which emails can be used by Copilot for summarization, providing deterministic protection against XPIA attacks from unfamiliar domains. End users will also be equipped with UX features to see excluded emails due to policy and appropriate warnings/labels for external emails.
ID: 488798 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Book desks from maps
The refreshed desk booking experience supports desks configured individually or as part of a pool. It puts maps front and center, with support for fixtures, but continues to work without maps. The same experience will be accessible from the calendar (in New Outlook, Teams and OWA) and from the Places app (on the web, or as a Connected app in Teams and Outlook), and will adapt to mobile/small screens.
ID: 488802 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – New options for desk mode configuration
Desks can now be configured for different modes, depending on the immediate needs of the Places administrator; configurations can be changed at any time. Available desk modes include: Offline (the desk cannot be booked by anyone, also default for individual desks); Assigned (individual desks can be assigned to specific users); Bookable (the desk can be booked, subject to availability/available capacity and configured policies; and Walk-up (the desk can only be booked in person and requires the user to be physically present at the desk, subject to availability/available capacity and configured policies).
ID: 488805 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Find and book desks near colleagues
The refreshed desk booking experience allows users to find where their colleagues are planning to sit on a map and book a desk nearby. Each user is in control and can decide whether to share their desk booking information with others.
ID: 488809 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC
Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets.
ID: 489216 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Search Skill (Copilot in Engage)
Engage Copilot now uses search skills to find and summarize relevant posts, with citations and direct links.
ID: 489220 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Find Text when reading email on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
The ability to find text when reading email on Outlook will be supported. This feature will bear resemblance to F4 on Outlook for Windows, or Ctrl+F in another apps. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 489226 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Changes to case creation process in Purview portal when confirming alerts from Defender XDR portal and content retention periods in cases
With this release, alerts confirmed from the Defender XDR portal (security.microsoft.com) will not result in automatic case creation in the Purview portal. To create a case, Insider Risk Management analysts or investigators must manually click on the “”Confirm all alerts & create case”” button in the Purview portal from the alert that was previously confirmed through Defender XDR. When a case is created for a specific user based on the generated alert, related content such as online files and emails, is made available in the Content explorer tab. Additionally, any new content that generates or adds to an alert is included in the Content explorer for review during up to the 30 days from the creation of the Case. After these 30 days, new content identified for the user based on alerts will NOT be added to the Content explorer. To access new content, the existing case must be closed and a new Case created.
ID: 489228 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint
Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages.
ID: 489230 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July 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 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: May CY2025
SharePoint: Improved processing status experience for Content AI models in SharePoint Online
We’re introducing a new activity pane in SharePoint Online to help users track and troubleshoot Content AI model processing. Starting with document translation and autofill, users will be able to view real-time status (in progress, completed, failed) for individual files, bulk selections, or the full library. Completed status will include enriched details like language codes, glossary usage, and column extraction counts. This new pane will eventually replace the current processing status column, providing a more consistent and actionable experience.
ID: 489453 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
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
Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium]
Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
ID: 489808 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Export Team Summary report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides
Managers will be able to export default sections from the Team 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: 489811 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town halls in DoD
Set up and host large scale events across a DoD organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 489812 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge for Business will soon integrate an entry point into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from the address bar
Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce an easy way for users to get summaries of their open page from the address bar using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This feature seeks to help users more easily understand relevant content and save time.
ID: 489822 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view
Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot.
ID: 489828 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Create, Delete, Rename, and Move Folders
You will now be able to more easily create, delete, rename, and move folders on mobile. From your inbox, tap the Edit icon in the sidebar. Tap on any folder to create a subfolder, or rename, move, and delete that folder. You can also rearrange and nest your folders by dragging and dropping them.
ID: 489831 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web Search Query
Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, AI interactions can be filtered to show interactions that contain a web search query and the contents of the web search query are shown.
ID: 489836 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles
New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data.
ID: 489837 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Timeline view of user activity
This feature offers 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. 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 that may result in a data security or compliance incident. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.
ID: 489840 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint DLP – Protect shadow files for OneDrive
Admins can protect OneDrive shadow files, that are not locally synced on an endpoint device. This feature has a dependency on Just-in-time (JIT) to provide the interim protection.
ID: 489842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Voice Applications Settings for Authorized Users in GCC High and DoD (Premium)
Voice applications policies allow you to create and assign voice application policies to authorized users. Voice application policies control what configuration changes an authorized user can make to the auto attendants and call queues they’re authorized for. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.
ID: 490056 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education
The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. This is an optional opt-in experience.
ID: 490057 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Jump to a row in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
We’re making it possible to jump to a row in the Message List by typing. For example, while sorted by “From”, you’ll be able to type “Philip” to jump to the first row where the sender is “Philip”. #outlookforwindows
ID: 490058 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Outlook: Ability to copy non-linked attachments
When this rolls out, customers will be able to copy and paste non-linked attachments only in supported locations without having to save to device or cloud storage.
ID: 490063 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Publish to Viva Engage
Campaign members can now additionally publish their publication to Viva Engage.
ID: 185105 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web
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: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints
With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.
ID: 410397 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot
Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail’s importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot’s priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 411302 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance
This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
ID: 417483 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Separate policies to control transcription for Town halls and Webinars
Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses.
ID: 473886 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Separate recording policies for Town halls and Webinars
Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable recordings. Previously, the recording policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the recording policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses.
ID: 473887 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work
Now, instantly get suggestions for slide templates to use while creating slides in PowerPoint. Insert a new slide or start typing the slide name or type of slide and see suggestions in the Copilot Suggestions pane.
ID: 475054 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhancing usability for the frontline
We are enhancing the default experience for Frontline Workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. These updates include adding the Viva Engage experience into the Tailored Frontline App Experience and renaming Viva Connections to Home for greater clarity.
ID: 481280 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for calls from chat and Meet now meetings now available for GCC High
Intelligent meeting recap will be available in GCC High for impromptu calls and meetings, like those started from Meet now and calls started from chat. You can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends. This capability will be available for users with a Teams Premium or M365 Copilot license.
ID: 481353 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP support – Just-in-time on MacOS
You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope.
ID: 483354 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Control When Shared Content Is Visible to Attendees in ‘Manage what attendees see’
An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to control when shared content is visible to attendees. This capability is available for Meetings, Webinars and Town halls.
ID: 483486 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: 2-click view of encrypted emails in New Outlook
New Outlook for Windows will now support a two-click view for encrypted emails. This feature enables admins to require user confirmation before allowing access to encrypted emails. Admins can find the “”TwoClickMailPreviewEnabled”” setting in the Microsoft Azure directory. Alternatively, admins can access and set the value for this setting using the Microsoft PowerShell cmdlet “”-Set-OrganizationConfiquration”” in the Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell.
#newoutlookforwindows
ID: 483883 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Group messages as conversation for PST files 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 group messages as conversation for emails within .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities, #newoutlookforwindows, #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485736 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Reply and forward 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 reply and forward emails in a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485741 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
PowerPoint: Refreshed Placeholders in PowerPoint on Desktop
Placeholders in PowerPoint are getting refreshed to look more modern and provide clear guidance on the object that can be inserted. Image placeholders now allow you to pick from a variety of sources to insert an image. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are rolling this out early to resolve an issue that some customers were experiencing
ID: 485770 Release: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Central community membership approval experience revamped
The centralized community membership approval experience undergoes a revamp to make it easier for community admins to manage approval requests for all communities they administer, in ONE single place.
ID: 479406 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP
Currently, you can create a Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign it to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release features based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for the same user on different devices.
ID: 480732 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Copilot highlights important meetings to prep for
After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. In this update, Copilot in the calendar will highlight important meetings to prep for today and in the upcoming week with a reason for the recommendation. Users can use Prepare with Copilot to get started.
ID: 481515 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025