Play of the Week
July 10, 2025
Soon Microsoft Copilot will detect emails that are most likely to need a response and pre-generate three options for you to review and select from. The feature, scheduled for September 2025 for customers worldwide, will save time and energy responding to high priority emails with proactive drafts.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for July 10, 2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Lists in Context IQ
Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Lists through the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
ID: 422308 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Teams Channels in Context IQ
Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
ID: 429645 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved Python-powered answers in Copilot in Excel
Copilot in Excel now provides improved direct answers to your data analysis questions, using Python.
ID: 490212 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content suggestions in Word
Select the Suggestions tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a Word document for suggestions on improving the content of the document.
ID: 495828 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Preview of multiple camera view in Teams Rooms on Windows
When multiple camera views are enabled in Teams Rooms on Windows, the preview video on the front-of-room display and the camera settings dialog will show multiple camera views. This feature allows in-room users to be aware of all camera streams that are simultaneously streaming to remote users. This feature is available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 496148 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: SQL-like commands in the search bar
Efficiently narrow down your search results by using SQL-like commands in the search bar. Users can quickly filter messages, files, or conversations with precise queries such as from:username, with:username or in:channel.
ID: 496590 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Document snapshot in Word personalizes output
The document snapshot helps the user focus faster by surfacing the most important information for them based on their personal context.
ID: 497297 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft 365: New Trust Center settings to block file opens using insecure protocols
New settings in Trust Center will allow users to restrict or allow file opens using FTP/HTTP protocols and fallback to FrontPage Remote Procedure Call (FPRPC) protocol.
ID: 497299 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
You can now reference a PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint.
ID: 497536 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
You can now reference an Excel file when you create a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint.
ID: 497538 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
You can now reference an Excel file when you create a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint.
ID: 497539 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
You can now reference a PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint.
ID: 497540 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
You can now reference an PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint.
ID: 497541 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Enterprise and Web Grounding for Draft with Copilot
Draft with Copilot now has access to your enterprise data to help you craft high quality emails grounded in the right context. You will be able to review the sources used to generate your email draft before you send the mail.
ID: 497670 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Copilot Proactive Drafts
Copilot will detect emails that are most likely to need a response and pre-generate three options for you review and select from. Save time and energy responding to high priority emails with proactive drafts.
ID: 497671 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher is in Microsoft Word
Researcher agent is now available in Microsoft Word, empowering you to tackle complex, multi-step research tasks with ease. Whether you’re exploring new topics or synthesizing information, the agent delivers high-quality, accurate insights—helping you work smarter and faster.
ID: 497833 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Quick steps in the pop-out ribbon
Quick Steps are now integrated into the ribbon of email pop-out ribbon in the new Outlook for Windows and Web. Users can access and execute their configured Quick Steps directly while reading emails in separate windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497834 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Play a Sound Rule
You will be able to set up Outlook rules to play a sound whenever an email that matches your chosen conditions arrives – whether it’s from a specific person, includes certain words, or meets any other rule criteria you define. This feature helps you stay alerted to the emails that matter most. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497836 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): List email attachments in M365 Copilot
Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot.
ID: 497909 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) – Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive
Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information. With Embedded support, OCR will scan content in DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and PDFs (scanned and hybrid containing searchable text and images). This will be in addition to support for standalone images
ID: 497912 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Agents usage report
A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair.
ID: 497999 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer
This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later.
ID: 397771 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Use Copilot to select and rewrite specific pieces of text in an email in classic Outlook for Windows
In classic Outlook for Windows, when composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length.
ID: 407380 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: App ratings in in-context surfaces.
Now users will be able to view ratings when they view apps within the in-context store in teams.
ID: 483506 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Custom Dictionary
Tenant administrators can now upload a Custom Dictionary through the M365 Admin Portal’s Copilot Settings page to include tenant-specific terminologies. This enhancement improves entity recognition in Teams meeting transcripts, benefiting both Recap and Copilot’s understanding of the content.
ID: 487428 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Find Text when reading email on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
The ability to find text when reading email on Outlook will be supported. This feature will bear resemblance to F4 on Outlook for Windows, or Ctrl+F in another apps. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 489226 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles
New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data.
ID: 489837 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows
Copilot users will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments in classic Outlook for Windows.
ID: 491020 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access Copilot Chat in your Microsoft 365 apps
Easily access Copilot Chat from the side pane in your Microsoft 365 apps with a commercial Microsoft 365 license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
ID: 494830 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users
Sign language users will benefit from an enhanced meeting experience. Interpreters will be clearly identified in the participant roster and visually distinguished throughout meetings. Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who use sign language will be automatically detected and elevated to active speaker status, ensuring equal prominence with spoken audio participants. This will help create a more equitable and collaborative environment for everyone.
ID: 494843 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Compact Notification Size
Users will now have the ability to change the size of Teams notifications. The compact size takes up less space on the user’s screen and offers a clean, minimalist design.
ID: 496175 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Move to in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web
The “Move To” option is now available in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web, making it easier to organize emails. Quickly move messages to any folder without switching back to the main window. This update ensures a seamless and consistent email management experience. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 484058 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Move to in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web
The “Move To” option is now available in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web, making it easier to organize emails. Quickly move messages to any folder without switching back to the main window. This update ensures a seamless and consistent email management experience. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 484059 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
There are no cancelled updates this week.