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April 3, 2025
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 365 Roadmap Updates for April 3, 2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities
This feature has been delayed, we apologize for the inconvenience. Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. 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: 420939 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Custom user mapping for LMS integration and user sync logs for SAP SuccessFactors
Admins can now specify and edit the user mapping in the LMS setup form. They can also view the latest user profile snapshot in Viva Learning and can also track the historic user profile changes.
ID: 470026 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Teams calendar available to Education customers
The new calendar in Teams will be available to Education customers. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, the new Teams calendar will be enabled by default, and users can turn it off from the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams.
ID: 481281 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules for scenarios like auto publishing Microsoft 365 certified agents and perform bulk cleanup of unused agents.
Admins will have the ability to set up rules for various scenarios, such as automatically publishing all Microsoft 365 certified agents and performing bulk cleanups of agents that are no longer in use.
ID: 481518 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot creates an automatic presentation summary
When you open a presentation, Copilot will automatically create a summary, making it easy to understand the content quickly.
ID: 482542 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 Insider Risk Management (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: 483485 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document
Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments.
ID: 483519 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot
When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template.
ID: 485179 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot
When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template.
ID: 485180 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot
When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template.
ID: 485181 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot advanced text analysis in Excel
Copilot can now analyze text by identifying themes or sentiments, cite examples in the data, and insert a column with theme/sentiment labels.
ID: 485188 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Select camera in pre-join and during meeting
Users can select an internal or external camera, or keep it turned off, before joining or during Teams meetings.
ID: 485713 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams Button Support on Multiple Connected Peripheral Devices
You can now use the Teams button across peripheral devices without having to manually select a specific device in the Teams devices settings. This ensures a more seamless experience navigating across multiple certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral USB devices (with a wire or a dongle) connected to the same host device (such as your laptop). For example, you can use the Teams button on headset A to bring up the meeting pre-join screen, then use the Teams button on headset B to join the meeting, and then use the Teams button on your connected speakerphone to raise hand in the meeting, etc.
ID: 485714 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Unified experience for Copilot Dashboard and Viva Insights analyst workbench
A new, unified experience for leaders, delegates and analysts that combines the Copilot Dashboard and advanced Copilot reports in Viva Insights analyst workbench into one application.
ID: 485734 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Â AI Admin role has permissions to manage agents
As an AI Admin, you manage agents with various capabilities including creating and overseeing Copilot connections that index data in Graph and perform actions, controlling which makers can build these connections and regulating the data sources used, maintaining observability over all connections, approving or denying agents, pre-installing them without requiring consent, and viewing them in Microsoft 365 admin center integrated apps page.
ID: 485735 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Streamlined, unified role-based access controls (RBAC) for Teams device management
IT admins now benefit from unified role-based access controls across the Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management portals. This streamlines device management ensuring smooth transitions between portals and consistency in environment management.
ID: 485760 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2025
Excel: Python in Excel for the web (GCC)
Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature release, eligible users with access to Excel for the web will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.
ID: 485764 Release: Excel – GCC Tags: May 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.
ID: 485770 Release: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to view inferred skills and course recommendations
Learners would be able to select skills for learning, view inferred skills and courses recommendations based on inferred skills. Inferred skills are generated by taking users activity in M365 ecosystem into account.
ID: 485780 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Support AAD based security groups across Viva learning
Support AAD based security groups across Viva learning.
ID: 485781 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices
When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).
ID: 486366 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
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: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall
With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 486535 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for BYOD spaces
BYOD spaces now support additional room and desk peripherals, including docking stations and webcams. This enables users to seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for a higher-quality experience. IT admins will receive an expanded view and detailed reports for peripherals associated with BYOD spaces in the Pro Management Portal, when a particular BYOD space has a Teams Shared Devices license.
ID: 486693 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android
Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers.
ID: 486694 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Company-wide prompt publishing
Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant.
ID: 486695 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI- additional Microsoft Copilot integrations
Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI support for Fabric Copilot and Security Copilot.
ID: 486697 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Administrator will be able to manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard settings.
Expanding the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard admin settings to AI Administrator role which is the newly announced Entra role. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions.
ID: 486700 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town hall usage reports in TAC will have all the relevant usage data related to town hall events in the tenant.
When Town hall was released, there were some columns/data related to each Town hall event that were missing in the TAC usage reports for IT Admins. Now all the relevant usage related data are added to the town hall usage reports available in the TAC portal for Admins.
ID: 486706 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word
This feature is available to tenants that enable SharePoint eSignature in the Microsoft Admin Center and have Word clients on the Current Channel.
ID: 486707 Release: SharePoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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: 486820 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Line key support for shared line and call transfers
This feature will enable you to assign shared lines to a line key and view the boss and delegates of the line along with their presence on Teams Phone devices with touch screens. This feature allows delegates to pick up calls on behalf of the boss by pressing the line key and join active calls. Additionally, users will be able to assign the transfer action to the line key, enabling them to transfer active calls by simply pressing that line key.
ID: 486829 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Call quality reports for BYOD rooms in the Pro Management portal
As with Microsoft Teams Rooms, admins can now access detailed call quality reports for BYOD rooms with associated peripherals in the Pro Management portal. These reports include call history and session details that help diagnose network, audio, and video issues. Reports in the Pro Management portal requires a Teams Shared Devices license for the room.
ID: 486830 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Report a Conversation in new admin center
Report a Conversation feature configuration will soon be available in the new Engage admin center, moved from the legacy Yammer admin center. This feature allows admins to set-up a reporting mechanism for Engage conversations in their network. There are no changes to the end-user experience.
ID: 486831 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
SharePoint: Dashboard in Sites
The dashboard layout webpart will be available on all sites and pages. Currently the dashboard webpart is limited to Home Sites, it will be extended to Team Sites and Communication Sites
ID: 486832 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance (Premium)
This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator—assigned by the compliance department—is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting, the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions.
ID: 486833 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Outlook: Grid keyboard navigation in Month View via error keys in new Outlook for Windows and Web
When focused on the calendar grid, you will be able to navigate the time slots on the calendar via left/right/up/down arrow keys in month view. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 486838 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: June 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: August CY2025
SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators
Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.
ID: 486861 Release: SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt with a co-worker
Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.
ID: 486949 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft 365 App: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC-H and DoD
The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps and services. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to “Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise”.
ID: 486984 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Excel: Expanded eligibility for Python in Excel
Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. With this release, we are expanding the eligibility for Python in Excel to include users with Microsoft 365 commercial licenses that only have access to the Microsoft 365 online apps, such as Office 365 E1 or Microsoft 365 Business Basic. Previously, Python in Excel was exclusive to users with paid Microsoft 365 commercial licenses that provided access to the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, such as Office 365 E3 and E5 licenses. As a part of this feature, users with access to Excel will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.
ID: 487129 Release: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Monitoring in the Edge management service
The Edge management service offers an overview of insights about your managed Edge instances and suggests actions you can take. For out-of-date devices, you can easily schedule updates or notify users to update their browsers to avoid workflow interruptions.
ID: 487443 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting
Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., Which products had the highest sales?), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.
ID: 325873 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices
Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call.
ID: 416292 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000
Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
ID: 429538 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Outlook: Setting to toggle comma as recipient delimiter
By default, Outlook Web and the New Outlook support separating recipients by using either a semicolon or a comma. This new setting allows users to choose if the comma should be used as a recipient separator or instead allowed as part of the contact name. This is helpful for organizations where contacts follow the “Last name, First name” format. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 470020 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Analytics available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Analytics is designed to empower every IT and business leader to measure adoption and business impact of Copilot and agents with out-of-the-box experiences in Copilot Dashboard and customizable reporting for deeper analysis against your KPIs. With Viva Insights included, IT admins and analysts can now tailor advanced prebuilt Copilot reports with their business data or create custom reports with organizational attributes, longer usage data sets, and more granular controls.
ID: 471002 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: End user cards in Viva Connections
Employees can now create their own cards that connect to other tools and destinations on Connections dashboard.
ID: 472021 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Engage Communities app in Teams mobile
New, mobile-first experience to participate in communities aligned to personal interests and job functions.
ID: 475969 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones
This feature allows you to configure custom contacts and speed dial on the
line key of touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. It
enables you to swiftly access frequently dialed numbers and contacts,
incorporating one-touch/press dialing and effortless management of contact
lists on touch devices.
ID: 476486 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Support for file upload
Viva Amplify will support authors uploading a file with a list of emails to make it easier for the Outlook channel to reach large audiences.
ID: 477369 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Separate role added for downloading the original file evidence for Endpoint
Microsoft Purview has introduced a new separate role for downloading the original evidence for Endpoint. It is applicable for both Customer Managed and Microsoft Managed storage when you try to download the evidence using Purview or XDR portal.
ID: 478660 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Semantic search support for in-app Searches
Semantic search capability understands context and nuances of user queries, providing more accurate and relevant results.
ID: 479749 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements
We are introducing several enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include a comprehensive case-level data source view, the ability to retry failed locations for a more complete search statistics estimate, and the capability to view process reports across all cases. Users will also be able to duplicate search and copy search from hold or hold from search within the same case, reusing the data sources and queries. Additionally, customers will be able to access a more comprehensive reporting in all process reports including information like compliance boundary, encryption settings and more.
ID: 482558 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – New Outlook for Windows
The Microsoft 365 apps usage report will include usage metrics for the new Outlook for Windows. This feature allows organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. The report provides detailed metrics on the number of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 466738 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Introducing the SCO Setting in Walkie Talkie app for Enhanced Battery Life on older Bluetooth headsets
This feature introduces SCO (Synchronous Connection-Oriented) user setting in the Walkie Talkie app. This feature is designed to manage the Bluetooth headset connection to optimize battery life. When a Bluetooth headset is connected to the Walkie Talkie app, the SCO setting controls whether the microphone remains constantly connected or disconnects after a period of inactivity. This helps in reducing battery drain by allowing the headset to disconnect when not in use and reconnect when needed. The user control feature allows users to set a timeout period after which the Bluetooth headset will automatically disconnect if there is no activity. While the SCO setting is turned on, users may experience a slight delay in transmission as the headset reconnects. However, once the headset is reconnected, users will hear a sound indicating that they can start transmitting on the app. This brief delay is a small trade-off for the substantial battery savings on older Bluetooth headsets.
ID: 476733 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for the Walkie Talkie app on iOS
This feature adds the wired support to Walkie Talkie on iOS. It adds support for both specialized PTT headsets and generic headsets.
ID: 476734 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – New Allow and Off modes for each activity
The two new modes are Off and Allow. For Off, Endpoint DLP will not trigger events or Alerts and will not trigger notifications. Admins can use this enforcement mode to configure restrictions for a specific group. With Allow, Endpoint DLP will not trigger Alerts and will not trigger notifications but will trigger events in Activity explorer.
ID: 480731 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025