Play of the Week
December 11, 2025
Working with Copilot is getting even easier. Microsoft is rolling out a feature that ensures conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history allowing for a quick return without losing progress. The update is rolling out now for standard multi-tenant, GCC, GCC High, and DoD customers.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for December 11, 2025
Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs
After further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as “launched.” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs.
ID: 482198 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2026
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. This item is still In Development for production release; we apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 491632 Release: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
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 Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Enhanced scope drilldown
Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 495463 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
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: March CY2026
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds
Design and edit images, posters, banners, infographics, text drafts, and forms with Copilot—align them to your brand using kits built by you or your team.
ID: 498548 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2026
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: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support permission sync missed in incremental crawl
Earlier, permissions were synced only in the periodic full crawl which generally ha a default frequency of 1 day for most of the connectors. Now, we have support for doing permission syncs more frequently in an incremental way.
ID: 503570 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can manage access more precisely with support for nested permissions in Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow
Support for hierarchical ACLs for SNOW, Confluence, Jira connectors.
ID: 503587 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Communication Compliance- Alert improvements
Communication Compliance is improving the capabilities and customization of policy alerts. Admins will be able to customize the alert frequency per policy as well as adjust the email alerts frequency and recipients within the policy creation wizard.
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory 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: 529852 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Shortcuts for Pages on Mobile
Mobile users can utilize Copilot Shortcuts with suggested prompts to edit a Page.
ID: 529858 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit a Page using Copilot Chat on Mobile
Mobile users can now use Copilot Chat to edit Pages.
ID: 529859 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Tracking prevention when browsing InPrivate
Microsoft Edge is unifying the tracking prevention experience for non-InPrivate and InPrivate browsing windows. Microsoft Edge will use the same tracking prevention setting as a normal browsing window when in InPrivate mode.
ID: 530578 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Report capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1
Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can avail the benefits of end user reporting of Teams Messages
ID: 531760 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (MAC)
This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams on MAC devices without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network.
ID: 532724 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Draft emails using saved email snippets with Quick Parts for Outlook for Windows and web
Drafting emails is faster and easier with Quick Parts, now available for Outlook for Windows and web. Quick Parts are saved email snippets that can be reused when composing new messages, making it easy to assemble messages with reusable parts.
ID: 532733 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Autocorrect in Teams compose
Users will now have commonly misspelled words automatically corrected in compose.
ID: 534487 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
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Microsoft Teams: Activity in other accounts and organizations
Users can view and respond to activity across multiple tenants without switching accounts. You can triage notifications, reply to chats, and pin tenants to the left rail for quick access.
ID: 534490 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list agent
Enables effortless list creation for Copilot users through prompts, with intelligent schema generation and setup. This agent helps teams to quickly transform structured information and Copilot responses to Microsoft Lists.
ID: 534606 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: AI audio overview support for pages and additional languages
This feature provides additional languages support for AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. Additionally, if the SharePoint Knowledge Agent is available in a site, site pages and news posts will now have the AI audio summary experience.
ID: 535423 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Update Engage community cover photos in Teams for iOS
Admins of communities in Viva Engage will be able to update their community cover photo from Teams for iOS. This is already currently supported on Teams for Android or Windows, Mac, on the web.
ID: 536569 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Title: Ability for IT admins to customize the user notification strings for recording and transcription
IT admins can customize the message and privacy link used to notify implicitly or gain explicit consent from meeting participants for the use of recording, transcription during the meeting.
ID: 536570 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Report a Suspicious Call in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams now includes a capability that lets users flag calls they believe are unusual or suspicious. When a call is reported, the signal helps Microsoft strengthen security measures and reduce future unwanted or malicious call activity. This feature empowers users to actively contribute to real-time threat detection, enhancing organizational safety.
ID: 536573 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Review PDFs using Copilot context menu and AI actions
Copilot makes PDF reviews faster and easier. It explains selected text in plain language and lets you customize the prompt for tailored results—so you spend less time switching between apps.
ID: 536574 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Assignment filters support for Apple declarative device management (DDM)
Admins can use assignment filters when targeting Apple DDM policies.
ID: 536575 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager-Purview Compliance Manager integration with Microsoft Foundry for automated mapping of AI regulations and evaluation of Compliance controls for Foundry Agents
This feature in Purview Compliance Manager shall enable customers to automatically access the compliance posture of Agents created in AI Foundry. Customers can map Agents being created in AI Foundry to compliance regulations and assessments in Purview Compliance Manager and get to know the compliance status and improvement actions to be innovative and compliant.
ID: 536576 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Enterprise New Tab Page experience
A modern experience for the New Tab Page (NTP) on Microsoft Edge for Business.
ID: 536577 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
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Microsoft Entra: Microsoft Security Copilot App Lifecycle Management Agent in Microsoft Entra
Application Lifecycle Management Agent: This agent unifies the entire application lifecycle into one intelligent workflow—replacing multiple
disconnected admin tasks with a single, guided experience. It automatically discovers unmanaged private apps using Global Secure Access telemetry, recommends onboarding them to Microsoft Entra, and handles setup with automated naming, tagging, and least-privilege scoping. After onboarding, the agent continuously monitors app usage and permissions, flags unused high privileged apps and proactively notifies owners with clear next steps via Teams or email. Using the data the agent has gathered, it suggests a phased disablement plan that admins can customize to their risk prioritization preferences.
ID: 536578 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
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Microsoft Edge: Copilot icon visibility
Users can now manage the Copilot icon in their toolbar. To hide the icon, right-click the Copilot icon and select “Hide Copilot”. This will open Settings to toggle the icon’s visibility. Admins can control whether the Copilot icon shows in the toolbar using the Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled policy.
ID: 536579 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Tenant Restrictions v2 (TRv2)
New enforcement to block access from unauthorized Microsoft 365 tenants directly in Microsoft Edge for Business, helping organizations maintain strict compliance and prevent data leakage across tenant boundaries.
ID: 536580 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Select multiple messages to forward
You can now select up to five messages from a chat or channel and forward them together in one message—preserving both context and order.
ID: 536997 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-New cmdlet to remove retention from inactive mailboxes
Today, there is not a way to remove retention policies or labels (called a hold in Exchange) from items in inactive mailboxes in bulk. Now we are introducing a PowerShell cmdlet that enables retention policies or labels to be removed in bulk from these items. This removal will not affect legal holds.
ID: 537204 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Azure AI Foundry integration with Microsoft Purview for AI
Purview enablement in AI Foundry, allows Foundry admins to activate Microsoft Purview on their subscription. Once enabled, AI interaction data from all apps and agents flows into Purview for centralized compliance, governance, and posture management of AI data.
ID: 537271 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Relight images in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Edit or enhance the lighting in uploaded or generated images directly in Copilot Chat and the Create experience.
ID: 537286 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: 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: 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
Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall and Webinar in Teams Rooms on Android
When a Teams Rooms on Android 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: 500378 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Session Persistence Enhancement
This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress.
ID: 500638 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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: December 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
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete Teams transcripts and/or Teams recordings
Introducing a capability to Purview compliance admins via a Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention hold or legal holds to delete content on OneDrive or SharePoint Online such as Teams meeting transcripts and/or recordings earlier than the hold durations to comply with emerging compliance requirements. Leveraging Simulation, authoring approvals, Audit and disposition reviews to set-up and enforce defensible policies.
ID: 518223 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter and multilingual meeting experience
First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken – no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting. Next, a new “preparing” status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion.
ID: 520389 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Collapsible Automatic Replies on Outlook for Android
Now when users receive multiple automatic replies at once, they appear collapsed in the reading pane by default. Users can then expand to see all the automatic replies if desired.
ID: 523207 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Tenant-Owned Domain Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging
Identify if an external user comes from a domain that is impersonating the recipient tenant’s own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
ID: 526780 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Update storyline cover photos in Teams for iOS.
Users will be able to update their storyline cover photo from Teams for iOS. This is already currently supported on Teams for Android or Windows, Mac, on the web.
ID: 526783 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel
Agent Mode lets you build and edit workbooks side by side with Copilot. When you’re updating budgets, creating financial models, or analyzing data, Agent Mode uses Excel’s most powerful tools like tables, charts, PivotTables, and formulas to help you get the job done.
ID: 527835 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps
We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Copilot Chat across web, mobile and desktop.
ID: 533043 Release: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.142 – 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: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
We apologize for the inconvenience. Microsoft has decided not to proceed with New retention actions in Power Automate integration.
ID: 117425 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
Microsoft has decided not to proceed with Power Automate integration with records management
ID: 117523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby
We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 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: March CY2026