Play of the Week
June 12, 2025
Live captions in Microsoft will soon be scrollable, allowing users to review past conversation with more flexibility and over a larger surface area. Also, copying captions will be disabled by default to protect sensitive information and support compliance. The final improvement will be that ff transcription isn’t enabled, users who attempt to open the live transcript panel will see a banner suggesting they switch to live captions for real-time comprehension. These updates are expected in July for all customers.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for June 12, 2025
Microsoft Teams: Apply partial settings for Android devices using configuration profiles in the Teams admin center
In the Teams admin center, admins can now modify, review, and apply configuration settings to Android devices without overriding other settings ensuring only the desired changes are made.
ID: 313800 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: July CY2025
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.
ID: 491632 Release: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Shared spaces insights in the Pro Management portal
The new shared spaces insights page in the Pro Management portal provides IT with customized utilization insights, including time-series data visualizations, for shared spaces beginning with Teams Rooms. The feature uses calendar data and occupancy signals from Teams Rooms to track usage with filters for location, business hours, days of the week, and date ranges making it easy to see how spaces are being used. Future updates will include desk and BYOD room spaces. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 493318 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Browser support on Teams Rooms on Windows touch boards
Teams Rooms on Windows-based touch boards, including the Surface Hub 3, now feature a private browsing mode with Microsoft Edge. This functionality allows users to access websites and line-of-business web applications on touch boards both during meetings and outside of them. IT administrators can manage browsing policies to ensure a secure and safe browsing experience.
ID: 494148 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Continue editing in Outlook from Copilot Chat
When Copilot detects that you’re trying to write an email like saying Draft an email to my team thanking them for their hard work on Project you’ll see an Edit in Outlook button. The ‘Edit in Outlook button will open a draft in Outlook, with the subject, message, and recipients filled in, so you can review and send it with ease.
ID: 494510 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catchup on important emails in Copilot Chat
Copilot Chat helps you stay on top of your inbox by highlighting important and actionable emails such as messages from your manager, leadership, top collaborators, or emails containing tasks when you use prompts like What’s hot in my inbox? or What were the important emails from last week?
ID: 494515 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup capabilities available in GCC
We are bringing Microsoft 365 Backup Service capabilities to GCC. Microsoft 365 Backup is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users.
ID: 494517 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Frontier and Microsoft agent user request approval flow in Microsoft 365 admin center
For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request.
ID: 494809 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Edge: New Autofill Personal Information Settings Configuration
A web form field collection consent toggle will be available in Autofill settings (edge://settings/autofill/personalInfo). This will allow users to consent to Microsoft Edge collecting web form field labels (e.g., “First Name,” “Email”) to improve Autofill suggestion accuracy. Only field labels are collected and not user-entered data. This new setting is manageable via existing policies in Autofill (e.g., AutofillAddressEnabled, AutofillMLEnabled). AutofillAddressEnabled is the parent setting for AutofillMLEnaled. The AutofillMLEnabled policy is the parent of this new setting, thus turning off the AutofillMLenabled policy will turn off this setting.
ID: 494844 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps
You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands. Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more.
ID: 495002 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot
Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495260 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Copilot surfaces important emails in new priority view
Copilot makes it easy to identify high-priority emails and emails that need a reply, by offering a priority view directly within your Outlook inbox.
ID: 495261 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Usability and privacy improvements for live captions and live transcript in meetings
Introducing enhancements to live captions and live transcripts in Microsoft Teams to make meetings more intuitive, accessible, and privacy-focused. Live captions are now scrollable, allowing users to review past conversation with more flexibility and over a larger surface area. Next, copying captions is disabled by default to protect sensitive information and support compliance. Additionally, the live transcript panel won’t open automatically with features that trigger transcription like recording, giving users greater control over their layout. Lastly, If transcription isn’t enabled, users who attempt to open the live transcript panel will see a banner suggesting they switch to live captions for real-time comprehension. These updates streamline the experience while supporting accessibility and privacy.
ID: 495454 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Show teammates’ calendars in the left navigation pane
Users can now see their teammates’ calendars (including peers, direct reports, and managers) automatically displayed in the left navigation pane of the new outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495468 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Unified building and endpoint metadata for reporting
Teams Administrators can now use a single, unified process to upload and maintain the building and endpoint metadata that enriches calling and meeting reports. This new process replaces Reporting Labels and ensures that the building and endpoint information you upload is used in both Tenant Admin Center and Call Quality Dashboard.
ID: 495830 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September 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 when you try to download the evidence using Purview or XDR portal.
ID: 495831 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Edge: A Refreshed Profile Flyout Experience for Better Clarity and Actionability
We’re updating the Microsoft Edge profile flyout to deliver a cleaner, more intuitive experience. The refreshed design makes it easier to distinguish between work and personal profiles, manage credentials, and quickly access key settings all within a polished interface that supports modern browsing needs. With streamlined sign-in, clearer profile types, and organization branding preserved, this update enables a more efficient and trustworthy experience for customers.
ID: 495833 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Edge: AI-powered History search
Enhanced search finds sites in your History even when you use a synonym, phrase, or typo. After this feature is turned on, sites you visit will be shown in enhanced history search results. An on-device model is trained using your data, which never leaves your device and is never sent to Microsoft. Admins can use the EdgeHistoryAISearchEnabled policy to disable this feature.
ID: 495834 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business from showing in the toolbar
Edge for Business will now have a dedicated policy (EdgeMicrosoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled) to enable and disable Copilot in Edge from showing in the Edge toolbar.
ID: 496140 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Manage GDPR requests in Engage admin center
You can now manage GDPR deletion requests directly within the Engage admin center, streamlining the process and reducing reliance on the legacy Yammer admin center. This update centralizes compliance actions in one modern interface.
ID: 496147 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: new scenarios enabling in Microsoft 365 Monitoring
Microsoft Entra monitoring in Microsoft 365 admin center’s Service Health Dashboard is updated with additional organization level monitoring.
ID: 496176 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut
Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself.
ID: 369345 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes and Loop Components for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD
Teams Notes and Loop components are now available in Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments, enabling real-time collaboration in chats and meetings. Loop components allow users to co-author tables, action items, and lists directly in chats, while Collaborative Notes let meeting attendees co-create and collaborate on their meeting agendas, notes, and action items. As Loop components, these features stay up-to-date across all shared locations, and assigned tasks automatically sync with Microsoft To Do and Planner for seamless task management.
ID: 418119 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: June 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: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot summary for transferred calls
When a call is forwarded/transferred to another colleague, users can prompt Copilot to automatically summarize the context, open questions, etc. for the call as a briefing for the receiving colleague. This feature ensures that the recipient is well-informed about the previous conversations related to the transferred call, enhancing their understanding and preparedness.
ID: 484123 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral support for BYOD spaces
With room and desk peripheral support expanded to include docking stations and webcams, Teams users can seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for enhanced experiences in bring your own device (BYOD) spaces. IT admins can benefit from automatic association of devices to a space, device inventory, and detailed reports for peripherals in the Pro Management portal. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview.
ID: 486693 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town hall usage reports in TAC will have all the relevant usage data related to town hall events in the tenant.
When Town hall was released, there were some columns/data related to each Town hall event that were missing in the TAC usage reports for IT Admins. Now all the relevant usage related data are added to the town hall usage reports available in the TAC portal for Admins.
ID: 486706 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance (Premium)
This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator—assigned by the compliance department is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting, the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions.
ID: 486833 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Create, Delete, Rename, and Move Folders
You will now be able to more easily create, delete, rename, and move folders on mobile. From your inbox, tap the Edit icon in the sidebar. Tap on any folder to create a subfolder, or rename, move, and delete that folder. You can also rearrange and nest your folders by dragging and dropping them.
ID: 489831 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls
Introducing a new feature that brings interactive agents into your Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero state prompts and history support for seamless interactions. Currently, only agents built on Copilot support sessions, meaning they can remember the context of previous interactions within the same session for more relevant responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support. All agents from BizChat/Copilot Studio are now available for use in your meetings and calls. This feature allows secure testing and iteration, inviting colleagues for feedback without affecting sensitive data or production channels.
ID: 490564 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: External group chat policy enforcements for max two orgs
Facilitate creation and maintenance of external group chats with bilateral policy enforcement where members in the chat can belong to a maximum of two tenants. Allow tenant admins to control bilateral chat policy and apply it to users and groups.
ID: 490566 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent available in Teams
The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience.
ID: 490740 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Set New Ringtones in Teams Mobile
This feature allows you to customize and select different sounds for various types of calls, helping you better manage your alerts and distinguish between different incoming communications. For users with Microsoft Teams Phone, this also includes calls for forwarded and delegated calls.
ID: 491438 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API
Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.
ID: 169083 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Category Shortcuts in the New Outlook for Windows
Easily organize your inbox with quick-access category shortcuts! The shortcuts you loved in Classic Outlook will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, making it easier than ever to categorize emails. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 483508 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Add folders from a .pst file to Favorites 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 only able to add folders from a .pst file to Favorites. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485754 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Hardware backed attestation – enhanced for Windows 11
This will enhance the Windows compliance policy – device health by adding five additional hardware attestation settings specific to Windows 11 using advanced platform security features like Memory Integrity and Access Protection, firmware protection, virtualization-based security, and Early Launch Antimalware protection.
This feature is no longer planned and is being removed from the roadmap.
ID: 387499 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Showing aggregate Likes on prompts
See the amount of likes for prompts in your organization in Copilot Prompt Gallery.
ID: 400711 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Viva, OneNote, Outlook, SharePoint, Whiteboard, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025