Play of the Week
June 19, 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 19, 2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights: Copilot Business Impact Report
A new Power BI report helping you explore the relationship between Copilot usage and KPIs from your business data.
ID: 410775 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): See a summary from Copilot of the latest changes and comments in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint backstage view.
Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them.
ID: 489826 Release: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices
Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users on devices. Adding DoD/GCC/GCC high expected dates
ID: 493750 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint
Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
ID: 494831 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint
Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
ID: 494832 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint
Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
ID: 494833 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection – Support for Cross Cloud Protected Files
This feature will enable customers working across cloud boundaries – worldwide cloud to GCC High or Microsoft 365 operated by 21-Vianet, to share files protected with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels. Recipients in the other cloud will be able to view, edit, print, and more based on rights assigned by the document owner.
ID: 495000 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 1)
This feature release Always-on diagnostics, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on Windows OS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on the devices, eliminating the need to reproduce issues when submitting investigation requests to Microsoft. It allows for the collection of detailed traces over extended periods (up to 90 days). While raising tickets to submit investigation requests to Microsoft regarding Microsoft Endpoint DLP, customers can share enhanced diagnostic information with Microsoft without needing to reproduce the exact scenario.
ID: 495683 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation
Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations
ID: 496136 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation
Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations
ID: 496137 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation
Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations
ID: 496138 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: Rule to display desktop alert
Create rules that trigger a desktop alert when specific emails arrive. This makes it easier to stay on top of important messages without missing a beat. Look for the new “Display a Desktop Alert” action when setting up or editing your rules. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496141 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Rule to display desktop alert
Create rules that trigger a desktop alert when specific emails arrive. This makes it easier to stay on top of important messages without missing a beat. Look for the new “Display a Desktop Alert” action when setting up or editing your rules. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496142 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Folder Deletion Warning for Rules
Outlook will show warning when you try to delete a folder that’s used in a rule. This helps prevent accidental rule breakage and ensures your email flow remains uninterrupted. You’ll be prompted to review or update affected rules before the folder is removed. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496143 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: Folder Deletion Warning for Rules
Outlook will show warning when you try to delete a folder that’s used in a rule. This helps prevent accidental rule breakage and ensures your email flow remains uninterrupted. You’ll be prompted to review or update affected rules before the folder is removed. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496144 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy Tips & Override for Outlook Mobile
Outlook Mobile now supports Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy tips, helping users avoid accidental data leaks. When sensitive content is detected, users are alerted with inline tips or pop-ups, based on admin-configured rules. This update aligns DLP behavior across all Outlook clients for consistent compliance enforcement.
ID: 496146 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Agent-Level Controls for Pay-as-you-go
This feature introduces admin controls for managing AI agents on a consumption basis within Microsoft 365 Copilot. Administrators can specify which users can access particular agents through pay-as-you-go, control which agents are available for metered consumption, and establish billing policy for each agent. Initially focusing on declarative agents in M365 Copilot Chat and SharePoint, this enhancement enables organizations to effectively manage AI consumption costs and scale intelligent capabilities according to business needs.
ID: 496363 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat access to page content will soon extend to work across multiple open tabs
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge will soon be able to answer contextual questions about a user’s open window. This extends the existing capability which can only access the open page. All existing user settings and policies and DLP considerations will continue to be respected.
ID: 496364 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Title: Simultaneous role-specific Town hall and webinar views in Teams Rooms on Windows
In Teams Rooms on Windows, both attendees and presenters for Teams Town halls and webinars can now simultaneously enjoy unique experiences in the same room. This new feature sets the in-room viewing experience on the front of room display to attendee view by default so presenter-specific features, such as the green room and backroom chat, or off-stage presenters are hidden. Presenters in the room can still see their view on the console and manage everything smoothly without distracting the audience. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 496368 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Outlook: add attachments while offline in the new Outlook for Windows
We are adding more functionality to offline mode in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to add attachments while drafting your email without an internet connection. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496371 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2025
Outlook: New Outlook Support For GCC-High and Sovereign Clouds
New Outlook will support the connection of accounts in special environments such as Microsoft 365 GCC High, Microsoft 365 DoD, and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet (China). In this release, all mailboxes connected to new Outlook will need to be hosted in the same special environment. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 496375 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – On demand classification for files on Windows devices
This capability will enable organizations to scan files on Windows devices for sensitive information to meet data discovery requirements for regulatory purposes and inform data security posture accordingly.
ID: 496593 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat
Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.
ID: 496596 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps
Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.
ID: 496652 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat module UI refresh
Copilot Chat is designed to provide a streamlined UI, making it easy to get started and achieve your goals quickly. It offers a helpful, understanding, and personalized experience, allowing you to search for past interactions, content, agents, or pages with ease.
ID: 485716 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills is now available
We’re excited to launch People Skills, an AI-powered service that delivers personalized skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365. Using advanced inferencing, it helps organizations identify skill gaps and promote upskilling. With People Skills, individuals can easily share a current view of their skills and more easily connect with others. People Skills data enriches people-based experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot and in the Microsoft 365 profile card and editor.
ID: 485726 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Profile cards in the new Outlook for Windows display people details stored in PST files
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 click on a person to view their details stored in a .pst file on the profile card . Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485752 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Call quality reports for BYOD rooms in the Pro Management portal
As with Microsoft Teams Rooms, admins can now access detailed call quality reports for BYOD rooms with associated peripherals in the Pro Management portal. These reports include call history and session details that help diagnose network, audio, and video issues. Reports in the Pro Management portal requires a Teams Shared Devices license for the room.
ID: 486830 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Monitoring in the Edge management service
The Edge management service offers an overview of insights about your managed Edge instances and suggests actions you can take. For out-of-date devices, you can easily schedule updates or notify users to update their browsers to avoid workflow interruptions.
ID: 487443 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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
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): 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