Play of the Week
May 8, 2025
Teams Audit Events for Meetings 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. Microsoft Purview Audit logs offer administrators the ability to 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. The update is coming in June 2025 for GCC environments.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for May 8, 2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer
This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email within purview content explorer. This will help admins with their investigation process
ID: 485765 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration – Employee engagement and work patterns analysis and reporting
This feature provides an intuitive out-of-the-box report that shows the relationships between employee sentiment item and their work pattern drivers influencing employee engagement, allowing HR users to share insights with leaders easily without customization or running their own data analysis.
ID: 489229 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -User Schema Enhancements: Self-Serve Renaming for Custom Hierarchies
This feature enables Viva Glint admins to rename existing hierarchies and hierarchy levels within the user schema. By providing a self-service capability, admins can easily manage and update the structure of user data without requiring external support.
ID: 489835 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Silent test call
Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience.
ID: 490055 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) 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 Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group
This feature enables policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a group. DG expansion refers to the process of expanding Distribution Groups (DG) to ensure all recipients are evaluated for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. This feature allows organizations to evaluate rules based on recipients contained in distribution groups, increasing the confidence that users will receive relevant warnings while drafting emails with sensitive content.
ID: 491014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group
This feature enables policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a group. DG expansion refers to the process of expanding Distribution Groups (DG) to ensure all recipients are evaluated for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. This feature allows organizations to evaluate rules based on recipients contained in distribution groups, increasing the confidence that users will receive relevant warnings while drafting emails with sensitive content.
ID: 491015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June 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: 491017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Backfill for SharePoint Sites
We are thrilled to announce a powerful new feature that allows tenant admins to select an existing SharePoint Online (SPO) site and backfill OCR for documents already present in the library. This means you no longer need to move all your documents to a new site to ensure they are OCRed and protected.
We plan to release a private preview at end of May, if you would like to enable this feature please reach out the feature team and we will enable the feature on your tenant.
Only files without OCR will be processed, ensuring efficient use of resources and preventing double charges for unchanged documents. This update streamlines your workflow, making it easier to manage and protect your documents.
ID: 491023 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Websocket Support for Tunnel MAM (iOS)
WebSocket support for Tunnel enables secure, real-time communication for apps using WebSockets. It supports JavaScript WebSockets through web views but doesn’t fully support iOS native APIs like NSWebSocket.
ID: 491026 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Operational dashboard to gain insight on EPM status and elevations.
The dashboard focuses EPM insights on rollout status as well as elevations in the environment and suggestions for new rules to create.
ID: 491027 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Customization of app installs with Enterprise Application Management
Script installer offers you a way to have more control and customization around Win32 (including in EAM catalog) app installations. You now have the option to use a PowerShell script in place of command line configurations to install your app.
ID: 491028 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September 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) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center​
Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users’ devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs.
ID: 491439 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Outlook: Unverified Senders- warn users about spoofing and impersonation attempts
When you receive messages from senders we weren’t able to verify as safe, you’ll see a tag in the message list and a ribbon on the reading pane warning you to be cautious when interacting with it.
ID: 491471 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Call Waiting Beep Enabled on Desktop
Call Waiting Beep is a feature designed to provide a subtle notification tone when a user is already on a call and a second call comes in. This gentle alert ensures the user is aware of the incoming call without being overly disruptive.
ID: 491472 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization in Edge for Business Context Menu
Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce a Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat summarization menu item to our context menu. This feature will help users quickly unpack and ask questions about their open page.
ID: 491473 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity Label support in Engage
Your organization can now manually apply Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Sensitivity label support in this new application will allow admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage. End users will be able to manually apply labels to Engage communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls.
ID: 491918 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025
Outlook: Custom Instructions for draft with Copilot
Give Copilot some instructions about your emails – like the tone, length, greeting – so your Copilot generated drafts sound more like you want them to. #newoutlookforwindow
ID: 366572 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Live transcription on Teams Rooms on Windows
You can control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes each speaker’s name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, the translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 423088 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows
While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 423089 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery
View in Teams Rooms on Windows
The updated Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows arranges all participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes video on the meeting stage, offers additional layout options, optimizes for single and dual displays, and provides a unified meeting experience across both Teams Rooms and desktop.
ID: 468277 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can enable transcription in multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium)
We’re introducing a new organizer-level control that no longer requires all meetings to have one common spoken language to be set across all participants. Meeting organizers with Copilot or Teams Premium licenses will see a new control in meeting options called ‘Enable multilingual speech recognition.’When this is enabled before a meeting, each meeting participant will be able to set their own spoken language during the meeting, and the meeting transcript can accurately reflect each participant’s language of choice.
ID: 473434 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support
Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications.
ID: 472913 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Occupancy status on Teams panels
Teams panels can now smartly utilize signals from Teams Rooms devices or occupancy sensors paired with panels to indicate when a room is in use (e.g. LED glow), so you’re not surprised to find an available room is actually occupied.
ID: 474441 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center
IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions. Additionally, it provides visibility on recency of client versions. Administrators can now proactively view insights and address issues preventing users from automatically updating to the latest and most secure version of the Teams client.
ID: 478609 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center
IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures. Administrators are equipped with detailed information on issues, insights, and mitigation tools to promptly and effectively address any potential client health problems.
ID: 478610 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Create channels with ease
Efficiently create channels directly from the header menu, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. As a channel creator, you will have the flexibility to choose from all the teams you can create a channel in to host your new channel.
ID: 479744 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Report a Message for External Collaboration
Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats.
ID: 481147 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings responses can be exported to Word and Excel
Now, certain responses from Copilot in Teams meetings will have an option to edit in Word or Excel. The edit in option for Word will be available for Copilot responses that are long (more than 1300 characters) and will automatically open a Word document with the response written. The edit in option for Excel will be available for Copilot responses that are formatted in a table, and will automatically open an Excel file with the formatted response added. Copilot responses can only be exported if the meeting policy for the meeting is set to allow copying or forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, transcript, and Copilot responses. The export capability will also inherit the sensitivity label of the meeting (sensitivity labels are available to Teams Premium users).
ID: 481352 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Team’s team
Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Copilot Chat, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery.
ID: 483951 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams Button Support on Multiple Connected Peripheral Devices
You can now use the Teams button across peripheral devices without having to manually select a specific device in the Teams devices settings. This ensures a more seamless experience navigating across multiple certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral USB devices (with a wire or a dongle) connected to the same host device (such as your laptop). For example, you can use the Teams button on headset A to bring up the meeting pre-join screen, then use the Teams button on headset B to join the meeting, and then use the Teams button on your connected speakerphone to raise hand in the meeting, etc.
ID: 485714 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity Labels for Loop Components
Sensitivity labels for Loop components – Users can set/apply/view sensitivity labels to loop components to classify and protect content based on its sensitivity level. The labels help enforce policies such as encryption, access control, and content marking to ensure that sensitive information is handled appropriately.
ID: 487437 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Customizable organizational statement for authors and responders
Organizations can provide employees with guidelines based on their company policies as survey authors and respondents, along with default Pulse privacy guidance.
ID: 488105 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Edge: v.136 – Elevating top settings and improving settings page navigability
To make finding browser settings more efficient, Microsoft Edge is introducing three navigation improvements to Edge Settings. We are making no changes to the functionality of any setting and all settings will remain on the same page as they are today but will be behind clickable sections. The first is introducing quick access to the most used actions on the landing page of Edge Settings. Second, each densely populated page Privacy, search, and services; Appearance; Cookies and site permissions; System and performance will feature quick access to its most used actions. Third, for these same pages, each section will now click-through to its respective sub-settings (similar to a table of contents).
ID: 416093 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft 365: Create Dynamic rule-based backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup
Create backup policies for your SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange data based on distribution lists and security groups memberships, and have the tool automatically update these policies based on dynamic membership changes.
ID: 464989 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types
Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope.
ID: 473460 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider availability to all Viva Learning users
The ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider will be enabled by default for all Viva Learning users. Administrators will have the ability to manage the visibility of this provider within Viva Learning
ID: 479410 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy availability to all Microsoft 365 users
Copilot Academy will be accessible to users without Copilot licenses. Admins will have the option to select their preferred access settings for Copilot Academy.
ID: 479415 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva Learning surfaces personalized according to User skills
Viva Learning surfaces will be personalized based on user-selected skills and inferred skills derived from their role and activity within the Microsoft Graph. This ensures that the learning content is tailored to each user’s unique needs and professional context.
ID: 479751 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Windows 365: Users can authenticate to Windows 365 using passkeys (FIDO2) on Android
This allows Windows 365 users to use passkeys (FIDO2) on Android. This feature will align with Windows App on Android GA.
ID: 481153 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components
Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email. Update: we are cancelling this feature. We apologize for any inconveniences this might cause.
ID: 122238 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Copilot summarization notification
The feature displays an Omnibox notification when users enter into a reading mode eligible page in Edge and offers them the option to open Copilot in the sidebar to generate a summary of the content. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We are continuing to add other Copilot features in Microsoft Edge.
ID: 399939 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Graph: Graph API – New Outlook for Windows usage
New Outlook for Windows usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. This will facilitate the creation of customized reports and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in new Outlook for Windows usage of Microsoft 365 apps usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows, as well as flags indicating usage of the new or classic Outlook per user over the specified time period. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 475245 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Controls for XPIA risk from external emails in Copilot Chat
Tenant admins will now be able to control which emails can be used by Copilot for summarization, providing deterministic protection against XPIA attacks from unfamiliar domains. End users will also be equipped with UX features to see excluded emails due to policy and appropriate warnings/labels for external emails.
Requesting to cancel this roadmap item as its duplicate of 489221
ID: 488798 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025