Microsoft Viva: Skills Scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights

With Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights, leaders can unlock powerful skills insights for their teams—driven by People Skills data. Copilot enables leaders to explore their organizations skill distribution, identify individuals with specific capabilities, and generate dynamic visual reports to support strategic decision-making.

ID: 415453 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

Once you integrate your organization’s assets into a Sharepoint OAL (Organization Asset Library) you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images

ID: 475064 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with lobby chat

Now meeting organizers can send one-way messages to attendees in the lobby via the lobby chat. The Lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings, have more control over meetings with external participants, and external attendees are well informed about the meeting upon meeting start.

ID: 480716 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

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: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public

In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management.
1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains: This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident.

2. Sending email with attachments to self: This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user’s personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident.
Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these new indicators in the data leaks or data theft policy template.

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: 483520 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries

With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user’s prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness and control over the process.

ID: 483965 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC

The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more.

ID: 485705 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2025

Outlook: Export mailbox to PST file 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 export an entire mailbox (emails, calendars, and contacts) or a specific mailbox folder to a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.

ID: 485737 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Outlook for Windows

Classic Outlook for Windows will suggest meeting options based on your meeting details, helping you easily schedule meetings with optimized settings from within the scheduling form.

ID: 487858 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced Take Action experience in Threat Explorer

SecOps can take multiple actions like purge emails, inline submissions, and tenant level block actions together through a single Take Action wizard.

ID: 488094 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Threads in channels

Threads in channels allow you to start a side conversation within a channel and focus on specific topics while keeping the main conversation clutter-free. You can reply to specific messages and create a separate thread, helping to minimize distractions and foster better collaboration.

ID: 488300 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint

Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages.

ID: 489230 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Town halls in DoD

Set up and host large scale events across a DoD organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.

ID: 489812 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: AI assistant for admins in the Pro Management portal

IT admins can optimize their time and resources by utilizing the Pro Management Portal AI assistant. It offers comprehensive answers to questions about Teams meeting spaces and management solutions and delivers data and insights specific to inventory in the organizations environment. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro and does not require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

ID: 489821 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town hall screen management privileges in Teams Rooms on Windows

When the Teams Room on Windows is a co-organizer or a presenter in a town hall, privileges can be granted to start or end the event, manage what attendees see, and promote attendees as presenters, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro.

ID: 490050 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education

The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. This is an optional opt-in experience.

ID: 490057 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Outlook: Ability to copy attachments that are not links

When this rolls out, customers will be able to copy and paste attachments that are not links only in supported locations without having to save to device or cloud storage.

ID: 490063 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

SharePoint: Modern SharePoint Page Templates

The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions.

ID: 490565 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Meeting Audit Events in GCC

Teams Audit Events for Meetings, including MeetingDetail and MeetingParticipantDetail, will soon be available in GCC. This enhancement will provide administrators with comprehensive insights into meeting activities, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency. MeetingDetail: Captures detailed information about meetings, including start and end times, meeting subject, and organizer details. MeetingParticipantDetail: Logs participant information, including join and leave times, participant roles, and any changes in participant status during the meeting. Audit logs are accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, where administrators can search, filter, and export audit data for detailed analysis. These logs are essential for maintaining compliance, investigating incidents, and ensuring the security of Teams activities.

ID: 491010 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP

Currently you can create Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release feature based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different devices.

ID: 491011 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Outlook: Event Updates

If an organizer updates an event that you have been invited to, you will now see Event Updated in the email and the updated location if applicable.

ID: 491018 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.

ID: 491635 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.

ID: 491636 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.

ID: 491637 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Exchange: New Message Trace in Exchange Online

Admins can access the new Message Trace and its capabilities by default when navigating to the Exchange admin center > Mail flow > Message Trace. Admins can also leverage the new Message Trace PowerShell cmdlets Get-MessageTraceV2 and Get-MessageTraceDetailV2. We have added key improvements such as support to query up to 90 days of historical data for message trace summary report (near real-time query), subject search capability, and more.

ID: 495489 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Viva Glint Dashboard

Enable managers and leaders to gather additional information and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey. By leveraging a Pulse survey that recommends questions based on the top strengths and opportunities identified in the org-wide Glint survey, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the teams progress to-date in addressing key focus areas, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.

ID: 396563 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts

Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.

ID: 401124 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User exclusion

This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM policies. 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: 412942 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Policy scoping enhancements

With this release, Insider Risk Management administrators can include or exclude specific users, groups, and adaptive scopes within policies. We are also adding support for non-mail enabled Security Groups within IRM policies.

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: 484081 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : MDM-independent support for Endpoint DLP on MacOS devices

Endpoint DLP is extending support to MacOS devices independent of the MDM solution used to deploy (previously supported through JAMF or Intune).

ID: 484137 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Outlook: Reply and forward emails in a PST file 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 reply and forward emails in a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.

ID: 485742 Release: Outlook – GCC 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: June 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

Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API

The new Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API enable customers and ISVs to export Copilot interaction data for processing in their security and compliance (S+C) applications. This new Interaction Export API captures the user prompts and Copilot responses in the Copilot private interactions and provide insights into the resources Copilot has accessed to generate the response. It will be available in Public Cloud for General Availability.

ID: 491631 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Add cycles to a custom blank recurring program

This feature enables Glint Admins to add cycles to programs created using the “custom blank recurring” program type. Previously unavailable, this capability is now supported for both existing and newly created programs.

ID: 493325 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

SharePoint: Pages – Author inline comments

Author inline comments enables users to collaborate, provide feedback, and track issues within a page or news post.

ID: 394691 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats

Purview Data lifecycle Management will be providing a capability to configure separate retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps in GCC and DoD by June 2025. As Copilot got announced in Gov clouds in Nov 2024, we are going ahead with Separate retention policies for Copilots right from the outset. Hence the earlier feature of separating Copilots from Teams chat is not applicable for Gov clouds.

ID: 472024 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025

Outlook: Role-based Copilots (Copilot for Sales) can extend Summarize in classic Outlook for Windows

This feature enables licensed users to use a role-based Copilot (like Copilot for Sales) to provide content for Copilot in Outlook’s Summarize experience. This roadmap item tracks availability in classic Outlook for Windows.

We are cancelling this feature, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 481560 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Â AI Admin role has permissions to manage agents

This roadmap item is being removed as the feature was delivered in March under different communications. We apologize for the inconvenience. 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