Play of the Week
March 20, 2025
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will include risky AI usage as a trigger to monitor insider risks like IP theft, data leakage, and security violations, starting in August 2025. This feature will launch for Commercial users first, with GCC and GCC High to follow.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for March 20, 2025
Microsoft Viva: Detailed error description for LMS setup failures
LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures.
ID: 477822 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): In Copilot Pages, the Chat can now be used to modify the Page
When a Chat and a Page are open side by side, prompts within the Chat can now be used to modify or add to the contents of the Page.
ID: 478647 Release: Microsoft Loop, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: Design ideas for quick links webpart
Design Ideas now provides formatting suggestions for the quick links webpart. This includes suggesting icons and images for a given link, as well as showing how the webpart would look with different card sizes, for single quick link webparts in a section.
ID: 482411 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot creates an automatic presentation summary
When you open a PowerPoint presentation, Copilot will automatically create a summary, making it easy to understand the content quickly.
ID: 482541 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Reply To header
Users will be able to toggle a “Reply to” field in the email compose form, which will allow them to add one or multiple addresses which will be used as the recipients for any replies to that message. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 483487 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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 365 Copilot: Work from your recent prompts in Draft with Copilot
Based on what you’re typing, Copilot in Word shows your most recent prompts, which you can use as-is or modify in Draft with Copilot.
ID: 483821 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Personalization settings
Microsoft Purview is launching a new Personalization page which will help users personalize their individual experience on Purview.
ID: 483884 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: October CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Collection policies support in IRM
With this update, IRM will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. For device indicators based IRM policy, required collection policies will be automatically created in the background.
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 to manage security and compliance. 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: 484082 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM
With this update, the generative AI apps indicators will be supported as triggers in Risky AI usage policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the generative AI apps indicators are used to determine risk score.
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: 484083 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer
With this update, IRM will support the discovery of sensitive files and text shared to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer. This capability is based on integration with 3rd party network partners (with data being captured via network layer).
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: 484084 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priority content support for Risky AI usage
With this update, Risky AI usage policy template will support priority content. Customers can define Sensitive Info Types (SITs), Trainable Classifiers, Sensitivity Labels as priority content, and get alerted only when the activity matches the selected priority content.
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: 484085 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text in Teams Meetings and Calls
Real-Time Text (RTT) lets participants type in the meeting while others’ speech is transcribed in real time. Whether for accessibility reasons or simply a preference to chime in via text, RTT ensures seamless, instant communication for everyone. It enables effective collaboration for all users, including those who prefer typing over speaking, and can be especially useful in situations where speaking is difficult or not possible.
ID: 484119 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Townhall concurrent attendees increase to 100,000
Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 100,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 50,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 100,000 concurrent attendees by selecting the Max Capacity limit to be as high as desired up to 100,000. Reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption) is recommended for every event. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
ID: 484124 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft events from Teams Rooms on Windows
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows can now join Microsoft events (webinars, town halls, structured meetings) as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for all events. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 484125 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams Town hall Organizer/Co-Organizer/Presenter Join as Attendee
Event crew members will soon be able to join a live Town hall as an Attendee during the event to monitor the experience for viewers.
ID: 484126 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Designer is now part of Copilot, enhanced with new template and slide suggestions
Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities.
ID: 484843 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Authoring with M365 Copilot
Viva Pulse authors can now work with M365 Copilot to add a question, rewrite a question, and create a survey from scratch to quickly create and send their surveys to their teams to collect feedback. M365 Copilot can seamlessly capture the author’s needs to recommend survey questions that fit their unique scenario.
ID: 484851 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage – Create articles and questions more easily with the updated “Create new” button.
We are excited to announce the addition of two post creation options—Article and Question—to the centralized creation button in Viva Engage for premium users. Starting April 2025, a Viva Engage premium licensed user will be able to create an article or a question post type directly by clicking on the “Create new” button, easing the process of creation of these post types, while also helping users discover them quicker. Kindly note that this roll out does not entail adding new types of content creation, but brings forth a unified and easier way to create these post types when a user is already licensed to use them.
By ‘Viva Engage premium licensed user’, we mean this feature is available for users licensed to the Microsoft Viva Suite or the Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities Suite.
ID: 484852 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook for Mac
DLP policy tips for Microsoft Outlook for Mac provide real-time notifications to users when their email contains sensitive information that violates organizational policies. Users can see policy tips directly in the mail tip UI and have the option to remove non-compliant recipients or override the policy if necessary. This feature ensures compliance by alerting users to potential data loss risks before sending emails.
ID: 484853 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile
DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
ID: 484854 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it
When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow up prompts to ask Copilot that build on the prior response. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or even reformatting the content into a table if appropriate.
ID: 325858 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Admin Center Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting
We are expanding the existing Meeting chat control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, In-meeting only for everyone and In-meeting only except anonymous users. In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called Meeting chat under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the Meeting chat setting: (1) On for everyone (2) On for everyone but anonymous users (3) Off (4) In-meeting only for everyone (5) In-meeting only except anonymous users. Admins can select the In-meeting only values to disable participants ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these In-meeting only values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active.
ID: 422808 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Queues App adding Service level for Realtime stats
Service level is now available as part of Queues App realtime stats. Authorized users will be able to review the Service level metric and adjust staffing accordingly.
ID: 472023 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Outlook: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME in new Outlook for Windows
New Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) signing and encryption as an outcome of sensitivity labels. Admins can use set label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 482201 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create allow directly in Tenant Allow/Block List
Admins can create an allow inside the Tenant Allow/Block List to override bulk, spam, and regular confidence phish verdicts directly.
ID: 406165 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Detailed error description for LMS setup failures
LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures.
ID: 414517 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI
Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses.
The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity, including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts, both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.
ID: 469509 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: March CY2025
Outlook: Support Import and Export of S/MIME digital certificates in New Outlook for Windows
Users who do not have S/MIME digital certificates installed now can use Import functionality to install S/MIME certificate files into their Windows machine. Similarly, Export functionality can be used to export S/MIME certificates with new password. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 479748 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse data available in Insights Analyst Workbench
HR analysts and admins can access aggregated Pulse survey results across the organization and slice and dice the survey results to analyze Pulse survey results by organizational attributes (Ex. organizational hierarchy, job level, job function, geographic location, etc.).
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ID: 407637 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025