Play of the Week
February 7, 2025
Administrators will soon be able to monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature will allow administrators to gain a proactive understanding of version adoption, assess the health of different versions, and access detailed information about devices and users utilizing the latest client versions. This update is scheduled to roll out in March for all clients.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for February 7, 2025
OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (iPhone)
With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them.
ID: 422325 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Forms Copilot can now help you collect responses on your forms
Copilot in Forms can now help you monitor and collect responses for your forms, so you can get the data you need on time. Copilot can send invitations, track your progress, and recommend follow-up actions such as reminders. Say goodbye to manual follow-ups and hello to smarter, stress-free data collection.
ID: 470604 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Ability to use the Graph connector selector when using Teams Toolkit
Developers using Teams Toolkit to author declarative agents can select specific Graph connectors to improve their knowledge grounding.
ID: 474446 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Embedded Knowledge capability support for declarative agents.
Developers and makers can embed knowledge (pdf, doc/docx, ppt) into their declarative agents built with Teams Toolkit for additional grounding capabilities.
ID: 474448 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot
Once you connect your asset library, hosted with Templafy, to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images.
ID: 475055 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP
This allows the customer to use a label for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact.
ID: 476494 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: 477358 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Hold limits increased per hold policy for eDiscovery Premium
The Purview eDiscovery team has increased the limits for Hold policies for eDiscovery Premium in the new purview.microsoft.com portal. The maximum number of mailboxes in a single case hold has been increased from 1,000 to 2,000. This limit includes the combined total of user mailboxes and the mailboxes associated with Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage Groups.
ID: 477367 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center
IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions.
ID: 478609 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center
IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures.
ID: 478610 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Communications Dashboard
A central hub for corporate communicators and network administrators to access information and manage tasks across the communications lifecycle, starting with campaigns, analytics, leader and audiences, and advanced moderation.
ID: 478656 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Theme monitoring
Network admins and corporate communicators can input custom themes of interest and track new conversations that match these themes. Theme monitoring is accessible in the new communications dashboard experience in the advanced moderation page.
ID: 478657 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Keyword monitoring enhancements
Network and Verified admins can setup specific keywords to monitor across conversations in their network. The enhancements include a new, modern experience of the existing functionality. Keyword monitoring will now be accessible in the new communications dashboard experience within the advanced moderation page. The feature is no longer available in the Engage admin center.
ID: 478658 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: February CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Quick Summarizations in eDiscovery
Introducing the “Quick Summarization” feature for eDiscovery in Purview Copilot—designed to streamline case management with an intuitive, at-a-glance overview. This new capability allows users to quickly access a comprehensive summary of eDiscovery cases, holds, and searches, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple tabs to assess status, statistics of completed actions, pending tasks, and ongoing jobs. The “Quick Summarization” feature consolidates this information into a single, easy-to-understand summary. Additionally, similar summary views are available for both Search and Hold within the eDiscovery case. Powered by existing “contextual summary” skill, the system analyzes case/search/hold metadata and generates natural language summaries, providing users with a clear, actionable overview of key details in real-time.
ID: 478928 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Classification improvements on file read access in macOS devices using Endpoint Data Loss Prevention
Data classification on files in macOS devices will be triggered when handling files on read access to improve classification operations.
ID: 478930 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Centralized admin role management from Engage admin center
Manage network admin, verified admin & corporate communicator role enablement/disablement from within the Engage admin center.
ID: 479407 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Advanced moderation access control for corporate communicators
Network admins can choose to enable advanced moderation access for corporate communicators to manage AI themes + keywords detected within the organization.
ID: 479408 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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
ID: 479412 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Direct Routing Call Troubleshooting via SIP Ladder
We are launching the SIP Ladder diagram tool in Teams Admin center to enable admins to troubleshoot their Direct Routing calls in a self-serve way. This feature will be available via the Usage reports page under Teams Admin center. It will also enable admins to view the SIP requests, responses and associated SDP data between Microsoft Teams proxy and the SBC through which the call was routed. This data will be available for all calls made more than 30 minutes and less than 30 days ago.
ID: 479413 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy availability to all Microsoft 365 users
Copilot Academy will be accessible to users without Copilot licenses. Admins will have the option to select their preferred access settings for Copilot Academy.
ID: 479415 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web
With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you open an upcoming meeting that has a summary available, click on “Prepare” and get a detailed briefing of your meeting leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 374723 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization
With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization.
ID: 411138 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows
When attending a meeting using a Teams Rooms on Windows device, users can now start or stop recording without having to join on their companion device. The start/stop recording button will be available on the Teams Rooms on Windows device for all in-tenant meetings. This feature requires the Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 412072 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: OneDrive in Outlook for Mac
Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in Outlook for Mac, for a consistent and fast experience.
ID: 412617 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Best practice configuration monitoring dashboard in Teams admin center
Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure a smooth collaborative experience on Teams. Best Practices dashboard in Teams admin center allows administrators to monitor and promptly address any non-conformance across their organization.
ID: 421185 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Usage reports for bookable desks in the Pro Management portal
IT admins can now access reports on bookable desk spaces in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assist with workspace optimization and planning. Reports include analytics on peripherals, usage, reservations, and occupancy.
ID: 421604 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – AI enabled file summaries on Teams mobile
Quickly get a summary of Word, PPT, and PDF files that were shared with you in chat, without leaving your flow of work. Tap the summary icon on the file, and get a summary generated by Copilot. Now you can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document on a small mobile screen.
ID: 422318 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections experience for Homesite customers
This feature sets the Home site as the default for the Viva Connections experience in Teams desktop. Once implemented, users will be able to access their organization’s Home site through the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. This change will only apply to customers who have not yet configured a Viva Connections experience.
ID: 422815 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Resize Teams window and left and right panes
Adjust the size of your Teams panes to prioritize what is currently most important for you, and/or snap and resize the Teams window with Windows 11 Snap layouts so you can view multiple applications side by side.
ID: 470431 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Delegates can now create new categories for the account owner’s Calendar
Delegates can now create new categories on behalf of the person who granted them permissions. They can also apply said categories to the Calendar of that same person who granted them permissions. Delegates can view the list of the delegator’s Categories by visiting the Accounts > Categories page of the Settings window and selecting the delegator’s account from the dropdown. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 473438 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Move email between mailbox and PST file in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook data files) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able move (drag and drop) emails from a .pst file to a mailbox and vice versa. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 473993 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Community replies and reactions in Teams
Users with the Viva Engage app in Teams will now receive notifications when others reply or react to their posts.
ID: 474126 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Spell check in Viva Learning search
User queries will be spell checked and corrected for all in-app Search.
ID: 162943 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows
Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see.
ID: 402517 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Security Baselines for HoloLens 2
These security baselines represent Microsoft’s best practice guidelines and experience from deploying and supporting HoloLens 2 devices to customers across various industries.
ID: 406909 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID)
For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups.
ID: 414515 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels
Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel’s home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams.
ID: 417153 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365
Use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Business Chat.
ID: 420363 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion
You can now insert a hyperlink in your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialog box.
ID: 420942 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Workplace check-in with Workplace Presence
With Workplace Presence, employees will have the ability to check in to the office in Outlook, Teams, and Places to confirm their work plans, receive check-in reminders, and view others nearby and who planned to come in. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 422717 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Automatically set workplace presence to the building level in Teams
When you connect to peripherals in a bring your own device (BYOD) room or at a bookable desk, your workplace presence in Teams will automatically be set to the building level (if you and your admin have given permission), simplifying coordination with others and enabling AI-assisted booking in the future.
ID: 422807 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams
With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon.
ID: 464175 Release: Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025