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February 14, 2025

Changes are coming to Microsoft Purview eDiscovery export. The biggest export change is when eDiscovery has Standard and Premium cases with unified structure, soon export will also be aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The changes are expected to roll out in March 2025 for DoD, GCC High, and GCC environments.

Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for February 14, 2025

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can now reference files to help generate drafts

When creating a form with Copilot, users can now reference existing documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users can also reference an existing form by pasting the form’s URL into the prompt box. Additionally, Copilot can search and suggest relevant files when generating a form, so users can easily create a draft that meets their needs.

ID: 474658 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms has been refreshed to help users better refine and edit their forms

Copilot in Forms has been revamped to more easily help users refine and modify their forms. Users can now type prompts to Copilot to help with editing and refinement, so they can get tailored suggestions and easily get their forms ready to send.

ID: 474659 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: 475053 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry can ground their agent in files stored in SharePoint

Tenant Graph grounding provides grounding for agents with relevant information from Microsoft Graph, including files stored in SharePoint. This capability is now available to developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry.

ID: 476496 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds

With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to fine tune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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: 477363 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Pronoun Awareness in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon use pronouns from user profiles when responding, creating a more personalized interaction for users.

ID: 478648 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Copilot Chat prompt input box

This update aligns Copilot Chat prompt input box across chat experiences.

ID: 478654 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management for Copilot in Viva Glint

Admins will have the ability to enable or disable Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint for specific users through the M365 admin center.

ID: 478655 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Support for inline videos and GIFs in articles

This adds support for inline videos and GIFs in Viva Engage articles.

ID: 478927 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Export Enhancements

With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com. Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for Ediscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs – same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. Additionally, for Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Other changes coming through are: – Change in Export limits and ZIP folder partitioning – Better Export settings with more options – New reporting capabilities – Enhancements in Results load file

ID: 478929 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot

Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.

ID: 479082 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot

Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.

ID: 479083 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Editing and viewing community ‘info’ revamped

Revamp the community “info” experience to be in line with the existing Engage user patterns. Editing the info, will now be available within the settings experience. Users can read the info from the “About” section additionally.

ID: 479405 Release: Microsoft Viva – 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 Viva: Viva Learning – ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider availability to all Viva Learning users

The ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider will be enabled by default for all Viva Learning users. Administrators will have the ability to manage the visibility of this provider within Viva Learning

ID: 479410 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Create channels with ease

Efficiently create channels directly from the header menu, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. As a channel creator, you will have the flexibility to choose from all the teams you can create a channel in to host your new channel.

ID: 479744 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, 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: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights

Usage reporting for Copilot Academy will be available in Viva Insights via the Analyst Workbench. Users can access these reports through Excel or a PowerBI dashboard.

ID: 479750 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva Learning surfaces personalized according to User skills

Viva Learning surfaces will be personalized based on user-selected skills and inferred skills derived from their role and activity within the Microsoft Graph. This ensures that the learning content is tailored to each user’s unique needs and professional context.

ID: 479751 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – SharePoint results integration in Viva Learning Search

Users will be able to discover relevant internal SharePoint content seamlessly while searching within Viva Learning, ensuring they have access to all pertinent resources in one place.

ID: 479752 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to export policy settings

Insider Risk Management will now supply the ability to export policy configuration settings into a CSV. Any user with admin permissions will be able to export the settings. 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: 479758 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2025

OneDrive: Upcoming change to shared folder experience in Microsoft OneDrive

With this feature update, when a user clicks a link to a shared folder from Teams chat, channels, email, or other places, they will navigate to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This new view, organized by people, will show and allow access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user.

ID: 479965 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Event Recap in Town hall and webinar (Premium)

Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizer, co-organizers and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are also available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses.

ID: 371588 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery

With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click.

ID: 397089 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle

Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption.

ID: 418120 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage)

With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow.

ID: 420333 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared

Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel.

ID: 421188 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: VDI Status Indicator

This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized’, or ‘Not Optimized’), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart).

ID: 423472 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only)

This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices.

ID: 429537 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats

Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work.

ID: 464988 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls

Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls.

ID: 468280 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar

The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections.

ID: 468290 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Delayed simultaneous ring setting

For teams with shared call responsibilities, delayed simultaneous ring will ensure calls configure the intended recipient first, instead of notifying everyone the moment a call comes in. This helps reduce noise and minimizes distractions —especially for roles like delegates and customer service teams.

ID: 468866 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Tag Mentions filter in Activity

To view all your tag mentions, select the tag mentions filter in your activity feed. The ‘@Mentions’ filter allows you to catch up quickly on personal mentions, while the ‘Tag mentions’ filter helps you catch up on the Tag mentions you are part of.

ID: 470598 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025

SharePoint: Pages authoring accessibility checker

SharePoint Accessibility Assistant empowers content creators to ensure their SharePoint Pages meet accessibility standards.

ID: 470603 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the transcription experience in meetings

We’re making improvements to enhance the transcription experience in meetings. First, when transcription, recording, or Copilot are enabled before or during the meeting, users will be prompted to select the spoken language to ensure transcription accuracy. Second, when transcription is enabled (whether by itself or when recording or Copilot are enabled) only the meeting organizer, co-organizers, and transcript initiator will be able to change the spoken language. Next, we’re simplifying the settings by creating a new settings page for meeting spoken language and translation language for live translated captions at Caption settings > Language settings > Meeting spoken language and transcript found at Transcript > Language settings > Meeting spoken language. Lastly, when participants speak a language that doesn’t match the selected language in the spoken language setting, the meeting organizer, co-organizer and initiator will get a notification that the language is mismatched.

ID: 471426 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online

This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more.

ID: 323899 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Set survey be closed at a specific time.

We are removing this Viva Glint item related to ‘Self-Service’ from the Microsoft 365 public roadmap. This decision is part of our efforts to streamline our product offerings and focus on key priorities.

ID: 163985 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience

We are removing this Viva Glint item related to Viva Glint Admin from the Microsoft 365 public roadmap. This decision is streamline this into specific items related to Viva Glint Admin.

ID: 383726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – File Sensitivity Labels in Copilot web grounding chat

After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Copilot web grounding chat responses will now show content sensitivity labels for prompts in which a user has attached or uploaded a Microsoft 365 file like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Business Chat web mode and Microsoft Copilot chat.

ID: 469497 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Outlook: Shared with Me Settings page

This feature will be merged with feature (375635) This creates a new settings page that will give users details on the permissions they have for the Shared folders and mailboxes that they have added to the new Outlook for Windows and OWA. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 473437 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

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