Play of the Week
November 26, 2025
350+ Microsoft Roadmap updates on the week of Thanksgiving, ahead of a busy december period, including Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights and adding calendar support in Outlook Oline Archive.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for November 26, 2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy
Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 68688 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD)
Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 85606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac
AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the MacOS and many of its applications. We will add support for this feature in the new Outlook for Mac.
ID: 88537 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations
All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
ID: 89975 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports
Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 93268 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds)
Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.
ID: 93269 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: iOS app multiple managed accounts
Allows people to use a single device with multiple managed accounts to access company information through Teams iOS app, with Outlook to follow.
ID: 109560 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities
Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in.
ID: 115482 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.
ID: 117425 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)
Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.
ID: 117523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets
This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.
ID: 117569 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections
Allow customers to bring their own user activity
indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business
applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks.
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: 122278 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations – single device
Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user’s device before they even realize there’s a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device.
ID: 124890 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint
Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to
extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions
defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.
ID: 139457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).
ID: 160010 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration
Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing customers to assess their compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services with resource-level testing and cloud-specific guidance.
ID: 167331 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope
Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 168843 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios
New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 169212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. 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: 171185 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights
The Communication
Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of
policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items
in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps
you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay
updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over
communication compliance. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ID: 172016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope
Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies.
ID: 172024 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization
Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization.
ID: 176155 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements
This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.
ID: 181825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions
Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.
ID: 336046 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Exchange: Adding support for Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD
We are adding inbound support for SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD. Look for another roadmap item for inbound support in WW and GCC, and one for outbound support of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC.
ID: 361914 Release: Exchange – GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation
Physical Windows devices will be attested at enrollment that enrollment credentials are stored in the hardware of the device. Administrators can view device attestations in the new Device attestation status report and manually force attestation from that report.
ID: 378649 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match
This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.
ID: 380721 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365
High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online.
ID: 382633 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search
Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.
ID: 384092 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization
To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).
ID: 386900 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization
To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).
ID: 386901 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE
Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool.
ID: 389857 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
ID: 392328 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label
Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.
ID: 392456 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label
Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.
ID: 392457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies
The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail.
ID: 392838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users
Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.
ID: 392839 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search
Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.
ID: 392842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips
ID: 394279 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives
Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit.
ID: 395793 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator
Microsoft Edge will include an AI theme generator, that allows users to input a text prompt and generate a series of images to preview as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image on the Edge new tab page, and applying the image’s dominant color to the browser frame. Admins can restrict access to this feature using the AIGenThemesEnabled policy.
ID: 396289 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv
As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips
ID: 396575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Universal Print: Logs and alerts
With a new Azure Monitor integration, Universal Print customers can send detailed diagnostic logs to a Log Analytics workspace to conduct troubleshooting and configure custom alerts.
ID: 396782 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments
Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected.
ID: 398711 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Publish analyst reports to Viva Insights App
Viva Insights analysts will be able to publish reports they have created to specific recipients in the Viva Insights app.
ID: 398974 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop
With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.
ID: 399928 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Improved elevation detection
This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.
ID: 399933 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New ChatGPT Enterprise connector to discover and bring prompts and responses into the scope of Purview features
Using the unified Purview portal, organizations will be able to establish a connection to their ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces to discover, collect, and store contents of interactions of users with ChatGPT Enterprise into the scope of Purview capabilities and policies.
ID: 401125 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats
When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat.
ID: 401127 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers
Microsoft Purview Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is now available for all new onboarding customers. IB v2 has enhanced architecture which enables the following new features:
Large-scale segment support: The segment limit in organizations has increased to 5,000.
Multi-segment support: Users can be assigned to up to 10 segments.
Flexible user discoverability: Organizations can now choose to allow IB-protected users to discover each other while adhering to IB communication and collaboration policies.
ID: 402516 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Import support for data files in Outlook
This feature adds support for importing PST files into Outlook for Mac. Support for OLM data files will include both importing and exporting data.
ID: 405754 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment
Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment (ADE) ensures targeted apps and policies can get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup. ETG will only be part of new iOS/iPadOS enrollment policies. Admins can add a static Entra ID group into the enrollment policy, so devices will be part of that group upon enrollment, reducing latency of targeted policies and apps.
ID: 406907 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions
Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.
ID: 408533 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future.
ID: 409534 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints
Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.
ID: 410247 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Integrated apps and Copilot extensions
The Teams app usage report will be renamed to the Integrated Apps usage report and redesigned with new metrics and charts. These will provide insights into apps enabled for Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Copilot extensions) in your organization. The report will feature two sections: App Usage and User Activity. Insights will be organized by Publishing Type (Line-of-business apps, Microsoft partner apps, and Microsoft apps), Host Product (Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Copilot), and Platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web). Additionally, the report will include views of app and user details. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 410248 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Calendar support in Online Archive
Add calendar support in Online Archive.
ID: 410249 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center
Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center.
ID: 410396 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network
Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues.
ID: 414513 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Automatically display auto-mapped calendars
Users will be able to automatically see their auto-mapped calendars when toggling from classic Outlook to the new. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 415168 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Sort by Flag option
We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
ID: 416091 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook
Delegate access for mailbox and folders can be granted from the new Outlook app. Users will be able to view the permissions granted for a mailboxes and folders. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 417063 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites
Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 417481 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Rewrite by Copilot in Edge is being upgraded to include enterprise data protection compliance standards
Rewrite by Copilot in Edge, which lets users edit typed text for tone, format, and length within an open page in Microsoft Edge, is being updated to include enterprise data protection for commercial customers. Once Rewrite is available, users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID will have enterprise data protection when using the feature in Microsoft Edge.
ID: 420335 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on container label of a group/site/team
This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 421192 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Admin usage reports for Loop
View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.
ID: 421611 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces
Manage retention and deletion workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces like Copilot Pages when users leave the organization. Notify and provide temporary access to other employees or administrators to save important data before deletion policies take effect.
ID: 421612 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – User accessible recycle bin for Loop workspaces
When users delete a Loop workspace, owners can restore it from a recycle bin in Loop.
ID: 421615 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces
This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group’s geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator’s preferred data location.
ID: 421616 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.
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: 422503 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces
Ensure via optional IT admin policy that new shared Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Teams enabled Microsoft 365 Group.
ID: 422725 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events
Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 422817 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Mail Merge (Advanced) on Outlook on the Web and new Outlook for Windows
Mail Merge (Basic) will be improved upon to allow fields to be replaced by values per email address. When Mail Merge (Advanced) is launched, not only will every recipient receive their own email with only their email address in the recipients list, but the emails can further be personalized to include content such as their name. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 423047 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage
Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations.
ID: 429876 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 Backup
Perform file-level browse/search and then restore using Microsoft 365 Backup. With this enhancement you will be able to browse for files across in a site from available daily restore points and apply filters to narrow results, restore at the original location by overwriting existing content or to a new place by creating a copy of the content.
ID: 464991 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include – stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action. Currently this feature is only available for OneDrive and SharePoint workloads.
ID: 464996 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Automated device enrollment without user affinity for visionOS and tvOS
Support for visionOS and tvOS through automated device enrollment for userless enrollment with Microsoft Intune Suite including Intune Plan 2
ID: 468887 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365
Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
ID: 468888 Release: Excel, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: New enrollment policies experience for iOS/iPadOS ADE
These enrollment policies for iOS/iPadOS contains enrollment time grouping, improved UI, and removes automatic deployment of the Company Portal app and deprecated settings.
ID: 469032 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies in Exchange
The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail
ID: 473493 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User analytics
With this feature, insights will be generated for potentially risky behaviors at a user level and will be surfaced across the following experiences:
1) Insider risk management context in DLP alert investigation
2) Insider risk management context in Communication compliance alert investigation
3) Insider risk management context in Microsoft Defender XDR user entity page
4) Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR
User analytics will cover all eligible users in the tenant including users not in the scope of any Insider risk management policy. Customers can enable/disable user analytics in their tenant from Insider Risk Management settings.
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: 475058 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Support for multicloud environments
Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and GitHub. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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: 475858 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on activities that may lead to a data security incident in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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: 475859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites
This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees.
ID: 476488 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds
With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to fine tune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts.
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: 477363 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving
This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.
ID: 477371 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2026
Outlook: Support for enhanced calendar-sharing architecture in the New Outlook for Windows and Web
This update improves the reliability of calendar sharing and ensures that the events seen by delegates are always up to date. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 477373 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Multi-language posts
Authors of Viva Engage posts will be able to add multiple manually written translations to a single post.
ID: 478924 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Access: Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors
Remove the 22-inch size limit and modernize Access forms and reports work well on large format monitors and provide responsive behavior for different form factors.
ID: 478926 Release: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights
Usage reporting for Copilot Academy will be available in Viva Insights via the Analyst Workbench. Users can access these reports through Excel or a PowerBI dashboard.
ID: 479750 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for historical imports
This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to perform historical imports into the Viva Glint platform. This alternate reduces the number of needed files and offers a simplified user experience to bring historical data into Viva Glint.
ID: 479755 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Introducing the New Republish Feature in Viva Amplify
We’re excited to launch Republish, a new feature that keeps your content fresh, extends its reach, and maximizes engagement across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Outlook, and Teams. Update existing published content in a few clicks, re-share key messages to new audiences or channels, correct errors and refine your messaging —all without starting from scratch. Republish in Viva Amplify makes content management effortless.
ID: 480722 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Agent usage statistics per SharePoint site
SharePoint agents’ usage statistics will be available for every SharePoint site. This will be available on the site analytics page for the site owner persona. This will also include analytics on how many times source files are cited. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 480725 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights
Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 480726 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: SharePoint agent usage statistics across all SharePoint sites
SharePoint agents’ usage statistics would be aggregated across all SharePoint sites and available for the tenant admin persona.
ID: 480729 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Loop workspaces for Microsoft 365 GCC
Loop workspaces and the full Loop app experience are available to Microsoft 365 GCC customers at loop.cloud.microsoft.
ID: 481154 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Copilot Pages – View, edit & share in Outlook Mobile
Continue working with Copilot and colleagues while on the go, with the ability to view, edit and share Pages on mobile.
ID: 481821 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365: Long-term retention period for M365 Backup
This creates the ability to set longer term retention periods to restore beyond one year.
ID: 481834 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – CSOD permissions sync in Viva Learning
Access permissions to learning content set in CSOD using Organizational Units are honored and reflected in Viva Learning.
ID: 482186 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Room recommender
If no room is booked for a meeting, this AI feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before start when two or more attendees are in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. It considers location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. You can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the invite for everyone. A Teams Premium license is required for the meeting organizer to enable this feature, which is available in Teams Mobile on iOS. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 482191 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
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: March CY2026
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: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Query Editor
The Advanced Review Set Query Editor empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data. This tool enhances data analysis by offering insights such as identifying top item types, spotting patterns, and trends within the review set. Reviewers can utilize powerful query constructs like complex filtering, pattern-based text extraction, and data format parsing to analyze and find key information specific to their case or organization. The results can then be visualized using time charts, histograms, and other flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data’s story.
ID: 484086 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
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. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 484851 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – 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: 484854 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams
Customers will now be able to migrate content seamlessly from Slack public and private channels to Teams shared, public, and private channels. A new first-party migration tool in the Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to review which Slack channels they wish to migrate, then perform content migration to Teams.
ID: 485709 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center
This feature allows Microsoft 365 administrators to enable Microsoft 365 certified SaaS applications within their tenant through org-wide settings for third-party apps. Admins can choose to allow a subset of applications that have already been verified against industry security and compliance standards. This ensures organizations can confidently adopt apps while maintaining governance and reducing approval overhead.
ID: 485712 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox 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 import emails from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485739 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox 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 import emails from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 485740 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Efficient Review with Advanced Minimization Algorithms
Sophisticated algorithms analyze the review set and pick out the best set of documents to review while hiding redundant information. A new analytics relationship view and detailed reports for each analytic run through the new unified reporting format allow you to have confidence in the results. The analytical information is available in both our new insights experience and export load files, allowing you to easily adopt this efficiency boost into any workflow.
ID: 485766 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2026
Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in Outlook for Mac
We will be adding declarative agents support in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in Outlook for Mac.
ID: 486696 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Investigation integration
Launch a pre-scoped Data Security Investigation (DSI) from an IRM case. When a data security admin identifies a risky user who needs deeper investigation, they can launch a pre-scoped investigation directly from an IRM case, allowing them to view content analysis related to that user and better assess post-incident data impact.
ID: 486827 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content
Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group.
ID: 486828 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox 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 import calendars and contacts from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 486839 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox 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 import calendars and contacts from .pst file to mailbox. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
ID: 486840 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Control Settings for agents with actions in Teams Toolkit
To give admins control over whether agent makers can publish advanced agents (agents with actions) for their tenants, we are introducing a new control in the M365 admin center. This control specifically applies to advanced agents created from Teams Toolkit. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 487847 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Full Submissions experience in GCC
We are bringing GCC admin and user submission experience to parity with WW capabilities.
ID: 488097 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Onboard to the Places Directory with AI
Seamlessly onboard to the Places Directory by using a new and improved AI-powered Initialize-Places PowerShell script. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488102 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC-H and DoD sovereign clouds
GCC-H and DoD sovereign cloud customers will be able to use features in Excel run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data found on the Data tab.
ID: 488142 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Excel – GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Automatically update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi
When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to automatically update their work location to reflect the building they’re working from.
This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in.
ID: 488800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby
Enhance in-office collaboration with Microsoft Teams’ new @nearby mention type. Easily notify teammates who are physically present in the office, streamlining communication and fostering real-time connections. Perfect for quick discussions or impromptu meetings, @nearby keeps your team aligned and efficient. #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 488801 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration – Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint
An intuitive report that highlights the relationships between employee sentiment items and the workplace patterns and drivers that shape engagement. This feature eliminates the need for custom analysis, enabling users to share out of the box actionable insights with leaders—accelerating decision-making to drive meaningful actions across the organization
ID: 489229 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Adding support for viewing Sensitivity labels applied to a Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) Protected PDF
Enterprise customers can view sensitivity labels applied to MIP protected PDF to be well informed of the data classification to enable them to handle such sensitive documents. This change will be available in the new PDF viewer on Microsoft Edge.
ID: 489232 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints
OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator can be used for 30 days and will not scan images for sensitive content.
ID: 489454 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Document Libraries – A new forms experience for streamlined document collection
Introducing native forms within SharePoint Document Libraries to streamline document collection. Users can create custom forms directly in libraries for seamless file uploads and metadata submission. Forms can be shared as links within the organization, facilitating document collection without additional access. This integration enhances productivity by simplifying workflows and improving user experience.
ID: 489834 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator
IRM admins can now select any Communication Compliance (CC) Policy alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select any custom CC policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for these CC policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admins can review if there are any alerts for the user within CC under the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to CC.
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: 489838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Offline Support for Calendar – Create, Edit and Delete Event support for GCC-M
We are adding more offline functionality in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to create, edit, and delete events in your calendar when not connected to the internet. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 490060 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls
After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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: September CY2026
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: 491016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
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: January CY2026
SharePoint: Permissions report for a given user – SharePoint admin center
This report, under Data access governance within SharePoint admin center, provides SharePoint admin with a list of sites where the given user has direct and indirect permissions at a site/lib/folder/file level
ID: 492621 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing
We’re now introducing the third generation of the Microsoft 365 sharing experience designed to make collaboration simpler, smarter, and more secure by default. At the heart of this update is the new hero link, a single, powerful link that controls access to your files. Whether you copy a link, share via email, or send the URL from your browser, you now have a seamless and consistent way to share and stay in control of your files.
ID: 492622 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2026
Exchange: Exchange Online Moderation approval requests via Actionable Messages
The Exchange Online Moderation feature gives message moderators the ability to Approve or Reject sending a moderated message to its intended recipients via a special email message form that includes Approve and Reject buttons in the Outlook Desktop or Outlook on the web toolbar. However, the ability to approve or reject a moderated message currently isn’t supported on Outlook for iOS, Outlook for Android, or Outlook for Mac. With this update to use Actionable Messages for moderation approval messages, moderators with mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online will now be able to approve or reject moderated messages via all the Microsoft email clients: from Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android.
ID: 492743 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: ZAP Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1
Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can avail the benefits of Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) and zapped admin quarantine for zapped Teams messages.
ID: 492985 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal
Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview.
ID: 493319 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC
Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration.
ID: 493742 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Custom permissions UI enhancements in Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler
This feature borrows the familiar custom permissions menu in Office and replaces the existing custom permissions UI in the Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler. The new menu enables viewer, restricted editor, editor and owner permissions to be assigned to multiple groups at the same time.
ID: 493749 Release: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Attachments preservation for users on hold
Enables cloud attachment preservation for users put on infinite hold so that file versions shared are preserved across any OneDrive or SharePoint site. This is a new capability which is different from the existing capability of applying label to cloud attachments and links present in OneDrive and SharePoint and shared in Exchange, Teams, Viva Engage and Copilot
ID: 493752 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow
Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “All risk factors” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX.
ID: 493755 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event
Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management 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: 493756 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event
Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management 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: 493757 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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: December 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: February CY2026
Microsoft Places: Microsoft Places Support to GCC cloud
Microsoft Places features will now be available in GCC cloud
ID: 495465 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: March CY2026
Outlook: Insert Graphic
When composing a message in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, there will be a new Graphics button under the Insert ribbon tab. This opens a panel that will allow users to search and pick from a large selection of emoji, stock photos, and stickers, which are inserted into the message when selected. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 495467 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November 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), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December 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: December 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: January CY2026
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. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 496363 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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
Outlook: Account Manager
Users can use the new Account Manager feature to learn more about their Microsoft account, display their profile picture, and add new accounts (if permitted by their organization).
ID: 497546 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Import Non-M365 data into review set for modern eDiscovery
Microsoft Purview modern eDiscovery experience now enables legal and compliance teams to import non-Microsoft 365 data directly into review set as part of the modern eDiscovery workflow. This feature allows organizations to consolidate all their data into a single secure review environment for streamlined review.
ID: 497638 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Play a Sound Rule
Users can set up Outlook rules to play a sound or show a desktop alert whenever an email that matches your chosen conditions arrives, whether it’s from a specific person, includes certain words, or meets any other rule criteria you define. These features help you stay alerted to the emails that matter most. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497836 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard
As a Microsoft Purview user, you’ll be able to view outages, service issues, and advisories that might impact your services. This new dashboard will combine the services and solutions health of Purview, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Cloud Services in one central place in the Purview portal, eliminating the need to go to several places to find this information.
ID: 497944 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places Support to GCCH and DoD
Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work. Places helps organizations reimagine flexible work with AI, enables employees to connect more easily in person so that they can make the most of in-office days.
ID: 497998 Release: Microsoft 365 – GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Unread News Notifications in Connections
After further review, this has been delayed to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Users will receive a weekly notification in the Connections apps in Microsoft Teams on mobile and desktop linking them to relevant SharePoint news that they might have missed in the preceding week. This unread news will be available in the “News” tab in the Connections app under the “unread” pill.
ID: 498323 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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: 498491 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Share meeting recap to SharePoint
Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details.
ID: 498494 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Add “Summarize” and “Explain” Copilot actions in PDF reader
Microsoft Edge will expand its existing “Ask Copilot” integration in the built-in PDF reader by introducing two new actions — “Summarize” and “Explain.” These options will allow users to generate a concise overview or simplify complex content within a PDF or selected portion. The new actions build on the existing “Ask Copilot” integration and follow the same enterprise controls and policies.
ID: 498641 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Additional granular RBAC controls to manage Antivirus, Firewall, BitLocker, and Endpoint Detection and Response endpoint security workloads
Expanded granular RBAC controls to manage Endpoint Security workloads. The ‘Security baselines’ permission previously included all security policies and now all security workloads have their own permission set
ID: 498899 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer
This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance.
ID: 498915 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer
This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance.
ID: 498916 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Pulse follow-ups for Glint surveys
Empower managers and leaders to gather additional context and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey by sending a personalized Pulse that uses M365 Copilot to tailor the Pulse to the team’s needs based on the Glint survey results. With Copilot-powered Pulse follow-ups, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the team’s progress to-date, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.
ID: 498917 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Wait on Send for oversharing dialog in New Outlook
New Outlook for Windows will now support Wait on Send for Oversharing.
This feature allows admins to block sending of emails in case DLP policy evaluation is not completed for labeled or sensitive content. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 498920 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Customizable Oversharing dialog for DLP in New Outlook
New Outlook for Windows will now support ability to show customizable oversharing dialog for Data Loss Prevention. The support will be to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 498921 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements
Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.
ID: 498922 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Viva Glint – Action Taking Analysis Report
Introduction of a new report that provides transparency into platform activity by dashboard users. Metrics such as report views, Team Conversations completed, Focus Areas created, and more will be visible and filterable with this report.
ID: 498923 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection- Scan existing files in SharePoint and OneDrive for business for sensitive information
This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for business for sensitive data.
ID: 499076 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Unattended Remote Help for Windows – Remote Sign-in
Remotely access devices over the cloud without requiring end user involvement by signing in with credentials.
ID: 499154 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Support approvals can now be requested by non-primary users of a device.
We’re updating Endpoint Privilege Management to allow users who are not assigned as the primary user of a device to initiate support approval requests. Previously, these requests would fail, but with this change, they will be processed successfully.
ID: 499156 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention — Always-on diagnostics for macOS endpoints (Phase 1)
This feature release ‘Always-on diagnostics’, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on macOS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on onboarded Mac 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: 499432 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Export Executive Summary report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides
Managers will be able to export the default sections from the Executive Summary report in Viva Glint directly to editable PowerPoint slides. This enhancement allows for easier and quicker consumption of this report outside Viva Glint, compared to the previous export method which included static screenshots.
ID: 499661 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Flexible targeting of Storyline Announcements
We’re introducing more flexible and precise targeting capabilities in Viva Engage, starting with Storyline Announcements. This new feature allows leaders and their delegates to define a custom audience at the time of posting, without relying on pre-configured Leader Audiences. Audiences can be built, and saved for reuse, using organizational attributes such as department, job title, or country, existing groups like M365 Groups, distribution lists, or security groups, and even individual users by name. This flexibility enables more relevant communication, helping leaders reach the right people with the right message. Notifications and delivery channels, including Teams and email, will continue to follow existing Storyline Announcement behavior, ensuring a seamless experience for recipients. This feature is designed to help leaders tailor communications to specific departments, locations, or groups, enhancing engagement and relevance across the organization.
ID: 499895 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365: Backup Activity Logs
In product monitoring logs to track all activities related to backup policy configuration & restore related tasks. This will help admins with troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and auditing capabilities.
ID: 500019 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
OneNote: Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels in OneNote
Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels in OneNote will allow users to classify and protect OneNote Sections with the same compliance standards available across Microsoft 365 apps. Users will be able to apply labels directly within OneNote, ensuring sensitive content is encrypted, access-controlled, and compliant with the organization’s policies.
ID: 500020 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for DoD
Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters.
ID: 500242 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall and Webinar in Teams Rooms on Android
When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 500378 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Custom search folders
Users can create Custom Search Folders in Outlook to automatically surface emails that match specific criteria such as sender, subject keywords, categories, date ranges, among others. Search folders update in real time and give you a focused view of the messages that matter most, without moving them from their original location. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500392 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: See progress when running rules manually in the new Outlook for Windows and Web
When you choose “Run Rule Now” in Outlook, you’ll now see a visual progress indicator in both the message list and the rules page, showing that the rule is actively being applied. This helps confirm the action is in progress especially for large mailboxes, so you’re not left wondering if anything is happening. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500395 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management
We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management
ID: 500396 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Organization chart in the Profile Card for Web and Desktop
With the new org chart users will not only be able to contextaulize a person, they will also be able to scroll through visited profiles, see a manager’s reports counts, and more.
ID: 500696 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Updated Document Library User Experience
We’re updating the SharePoint document library experience to more closely align with the user experience in OneDrive – while making it easier than ever before to access the valuable functionality unique to document libraries. When you’re working in a document library, we’ve brought custom views and filters front and center – just like in OneDrive. We’ve also redesigned the command bar to help you take action, faster. All your view customization tools are now grouped under one simplified menu, making it easy to apply conditional formatting or organize items by metadata in seconds.
ID: 500870 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management
We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management.
ID: 500894 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents
Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied. Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled
ID: 500895 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Windows Backup for organizations in Intune
Windows Backup for Organizations will be generally available in Intune with controls for backing up and restoring backups in OOBE. Backup and restore experience of user settings, especially for enterprises transitioning to Windows 11.
ID: 501438 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Windows Quality Update management policies
Manage individual Windows quality updates including non-Security and out of band updates. Choose which update types to automatically approve and the rollout options for those approvals.
ID: 501449 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Windows Quality Update management policies
Manage individual Windows quality updates including non-Security and out of band updates. Choose which update types to automatically approve and the rollout options for those approvals.
ID: 501450 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Intune settings available in Catalog and Account Protection template for Adminless feature
Adminless settings able to be configured in settings catalog and account protection template.
ID: 501456 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – 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: 501538 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer
With this update, Insider Risk Management 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: 501539 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Intune: Autopilot device preparation for Windows 365 Frontline shared general availability
Admins can use Windows Autopilot device preparation to provision their Windows 365 Frontline shared devices.
ID: 501559 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Updated Regional Benchmarks for employee feedback
Viva Glint will refresh its Country & Region external benchmark suites for 2025. These updated benchmarks provide organizations with more accurate and current comparative insights into employee feedback across geographies, enabling better-informed decisions and more relevant action planning.
ID: 501590 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management: Data Security Investigations integration
Launch a pre-scoped Data Security Investigation (DSI) from an IRM case. When a data security admin identifies a risky user who needs deeper investigation, they can launch a pre-scoped investigation directly from an IRM case, allowing them to view content analysis related to that user and better assess post-incident data impact. 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: 501781 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies
Microsoft Purview Endpoint data loss prevention is expanding coverage to Copilot + PCs initially to support Recall snapshots and determining whether policies exist to prevent capture of windows containing restricted sensitivity labels and Sensitive information types (SITs). Purview admins will author Endpoint DLP custom policies to integrate with Windows Copilot + PC Recall setup by Intune admins for Copilot + PC devices exclusively.
ID: 502519 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: New sharing panel in meetings – improved content discovery and ease of sharing
The sharing panel in today’s meetings is the default place for content discoverability and sharing. New sharing panel UI is crafted with intent of modernising and simplifying default tasks such as window sharing, but also for easier discovery of sharing options and more discoverable file sharing.
ID: 502520 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via macOS native experience
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that enables Mac users to share their screen or specific windows using the built-in native macOS sharing experience. This is Mac only, user opt-in experience.
ID: 502523 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for MacOS on Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365
This feature allows MAC endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance.
ID: 502524 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Similarity Clusters in AIR
We are expanding the auto-remediation capabilities in Automated Investigations and Response (AIR) to fully automate the remediation of malicious similarity clusters. Earlier this year, we introduced auto-remediation for malicious URL and file clusters. Building on that foundation, this enhancement enables AIR to automatically approve all pending remediation actions it generates—eliminating the need for manual intervention and streamlining the response process for SOC teams. This advancement significantly reduces response time and operational overhead, allowing security teams to focus on higher-priority threats.
ID: 502528 Release: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Calendar mini-month non-consecutive date selection updates
You can now use Shift+Click or CTRL+Click to select non-consecutive dates in the calendar mini-month. This will allow you to easily view and take action on the dates you care about. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 502562 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows
When in a meeting with another Teams Rooms on Windows that has multiple cameras, you can switch camera views in that room via the participant panel on the console, or video tile on a touch board, to optimize your views.
ID: 503104 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: New third-party enriched properties available for customizing profile cards
Customers can now customize their M365 profile cards by adding new properties such as Cost Center, Role, Employee Type, Employee ID and Division. These properties will show in the Contact Information section and can be ingested from external sources like HR systems, so that users’ profiles are enriched with relevant information.
ID: 503111 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: User Schema Enhancements – Delete Attributes
This feature enables Viva Glint admins to delete custom user attributes directly in the platform. This empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.
ID: 503148 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New Policy Setting to Require Explicit Consent for Recording and Transcription in Teams 1:1 Calls
We’re expanding the capability to require explicit consent for recording and transcription to include 1:1 calls in Microsoft Teams. A new setting in the Teams Calling policy allows admins to enforce this requirement before recording or transcription can begin. When a user with the policy initiates recording, transcription, or both in a 1:1 call, the other participant is automatically muted, with their camera and content sharing turned off. The participant will see a prompt asking whether they consent to be included in the recording and transcription.
ID: 503295 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Remove users from closed survey
This feature will enable Viva Glint Admins to remove survey participants from surveys. The selected survey must have a closed status, and this action will be irreversible.
ID: 503302 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Graph API support for Working Hours and Location
We’re adding support in Microsoft Graph to read and write users’ Working Hours and Location #MicrosoftPlaces
ID: 503315 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Expanded Conditions for Conditional Formatting in the New Outlook for Web and Windows
The new Outlook for web and Windows now offers expanded Conditional Formatting options, allowing you to highlight emails based on size, read/unread status, presence of attachments, flag settings, categories, or importance. These enhanced rules make it easier to identify critical messages at a glance and visually organize your folders. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 503551 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Email messages
Organizational Messages now includes Email as a delivery channel, expanding beyond existing surfaces such as the Windows Taskbar, Windows Notifications, Windows Spotlight, and Teams Popovers.
ID: 503562 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Action Segments
Action Segments empowers IT Admins to target Organizational Messages using dynamic, pre-defined usage segments. This behavior-based targeting approach goes beyond existing static group definitions, ensuring messages reach the most relevant users.
ID: 503563 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices
Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices.
ID: 503564 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Adding protection against malicious sideloaded extensions
Microsoft Edge will detect and revoke malicious sideloaded extensions.
ID: 503593 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Data Security Alert Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) introduces the Security Copilot Alert Triage Agent in IRM that analyzes and prioritizes IRM alerts so analysts can understand and act on their most urgent alerts first. On top of prioritizing critical alerts for analysts to triage first, alert triage agent will provide a summary of findings to help users understand what are the riskiest activities that make this alert critical to review. IRM correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. IRM 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: 503764 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention-Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents
Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied. Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled.
ID: 503780 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security
Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.
ID: 505444 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365: PAYGO consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs
Use the new PAYGO consumption-based meter to pay for your extra SharePoint storage needs. This reduces the operational overhead associated with purchasing extra storage packs and more seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Archive.
ID: 506743 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Miracast support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices
In addition to Teams Cast and HDMI ingest; you are able to share wirelessly using Miracast with Teams Rooms on Windows devices including touch boards. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 506748 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins
Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time.
ID: 506750 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplified Agent Creation experience
Drastically simplified first run experience and guide users quickly from idea to success.
Faster responses and improved performance for a smoother experience. Familiar, intuitive flow that mirrors Copilot’s simplicity.
ID: 506848 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Desktop Visual Search
Quickly send images to Bing Visual Search from the Edge Desktop Search Bar to identify images, people, animals, and shows; extract, copy, and translate text while keeping its format. Solve questions quickly in various subjects and get trusted information to boost your knowledge. Discover products, fashion, recipes, identify a location and more. Available on Windows devices. Admins can control availability to this feature using the VisualSearchEnabled policy.
ID: 508519 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Tab Search
Tab Search helps users stay organized by letting them quickly find and reopen recently closed tabs or search across all open ones in a single view. From the same menu, they can also enable Vertical Tabs, access the AI-powered Organize Tabs feature, and open Workspaces.
ID: 508520 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows
When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 508521 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook
Users can manually select text and ask Copilot to help provide relevant information.
ID: 508524 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Open channels in a new window
You can now open channels in a separate window to stay on top of multiple conversations at once.
ID: 509110 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Add Search results as references to your Copilot Notebooks in the M365 Copilot app
Users can quickly add a Search result as a reference to a Copilot Notebook within the M365 Copilot app.
ID: 510100 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Enhanced Search Experience in Win32
After executing a search in classic Outlook, users will have the option to easily opt into seeing an AI generated summary of their search results in their Copilot side pane. They can ask further questions in their chat, navigate to cited files and emails, or go back to their email experience easily.
ID: 510107 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Enforce DLP protection upon new content before its saved
Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share.
ID: 511791 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
OneNote: Copilot Notebook in OneNote iPhone and iPad
Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad.
ID: 511794 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Alert Classification Property for DLP Alerts on Purview Portal
This feature introduces the ability to classify DLP alerts directly in the Purview portal. In addition to assigning a status, customers can now categorize alerts as True Positive, False Positive, or Benign Positive. This capability helps security teams better organize, track, and manage alerts, enabling more accurate reporting and efficient incident handling.
ID: 511795 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
OneNote: Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Web
Users will now have access to their Copilot Notebooks on the web version of OneNote.
ID: 511797 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enhancements to variant limits and detection groups
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management variant limit is being increased from 3 to 10 per indicator and an overall limit of 100 across all indicators. Along with this, the number of items in one detection group is being increased from 200 to 500.
ID: 511798 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Optimizing Version History for lists and libraries
We’re improving version history for SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries generated with grid view editing. This change improves reliability, reduces storage, and streamlines the user experience by consolidating multiple edits into one where possible. Automation rules and flows, if configured with item level edits, will also now trigger more efficiently.
ID: 511800 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Onboarding emails for Leaders
This feature introduces automated, role-targeted onboarding emails for Leaders to drive discovery of the Copilot Dashboard in Viva insights.
ID: 511801 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Analytics
New analytics experiences available that complement the new Viva Engage Events.
ID: 511812 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage Frequent Contributor Analytics
Updating analytics related to frequent contributors to include more metrics and an enhanced design.
ID: 511814 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report
Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies.
ID: 511816 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Planner: Project Manager agent in basic plans
Project Manager agent will now be available for M365 Copilot licensed users in all Planner plans, including basic plans.
ID: 511820 Release: Planner, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2026
Planner: Custom Templates
Custom templates let you create reusable, pre-designed layouts tailored to your organization’s needs, ensuring consistency and saving time. They provide flexibility to standardize content while allowing easy customization for specific scenarios.
ID: 512431 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Planner: Task chat and mentions in basic plans
Task chat lets team members collaborate directly on tasks using rich text, formatting, and mentions – making it easier to discuss work and notify teammates on what needs attention.
ID: 512432 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Live meetings indicator for channels
Introducing a new indicator in channels to help users find meetings occurring live within the channel and join them.
ID: 513272 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: M365 Agent Access Insights for SharePoint and OneDrive sites
Rich insights on agents accessing content in SharePoint and OneDrive sites as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.
ID: 513273 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams
Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration.
ID: 513274 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements
Align the community feeds default experience with expected user behaviors; support triage and content review for users who want to read every message in a community.
ID: 513275 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Hide a user in Viva Engage
The hide user feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center.
ID: 513276 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Block posts with theme moderation
Theme moderation in Engage will soon offer an option to block message creation if content aligns with a theme. This change expands on the previous release to monitor and mute content based on themes.
When a theme is blocked, users will see a message explaining why their message can’t be published. Users can edit or discard the message.
Admins and corporate communicators can control where blocks happen across storylines and communities. Leaders, corporate communicators, and network/verified/Engage admins cannot be blocked regardless of theme.
ID: 513277 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Planner: Available in Outlook
Planner in Outlook brings all your tasks, plans, and the new Project Manager agent directly into your inbox, so you can manage work where you already work.
ID: 513278 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.
You can now adjust the length of your presentation, the tone of your narrative, the style of your slides, and leverage AI-generated images when creating with Copilot.
ID: 513422 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365: Cloud Update – Rollback by Group
Use rollback by group to selectively revert updates for specific device or user groups managed by cloud update. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
ID: 515151 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: Cloud Update – Rollback All Devices
Use rollback all devices to quickly revert updates for all device managed by cloud update and on the latest N-0 release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
ID: 515152 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Update user labels to show familiarity with external users
Trust Indicators are visual badges next to external users in Microsoft Teams that show a person’s trust level. They help you quickly see if someone is internal, external, a guest, or anonymous. This lets you collaborate confidently with users from external organizations and avoid sharing sensitive information with the wrong audience.
ID: 515169 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Auto-Archive for Exchange Online
A new capability called Auto-Archiving for Exchange Online will enter public preview in November 2025 (currently under private preview for selected customers). When a user’s mailbox utilization exceeds 95% of its quota and archive mailbox is present, this feature automatically moves the oldest items excluding those tagged with “Never Move to Archive” from the primary mailbox to the archive mailbox to prevent mail flow disruptions by keeping usage below the safe threshold of 95% of mailbox quota.
ID: 515172 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams
Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on ‘Add agents and bots’ from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group.
ID: 515465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: PDF Viewer Performance Improvement and Minor Visual Updates
The PDF Viewer in Microsoft Edge is migrating to WebUI2, enhancing responsiveness and introducing a series of subtle visual upgrades aimed at improving overall usability and utility. This migration ensures UI coherence with the rest of the browser while maintaining the same user experience.
The update focuses on improving underlying performance, consistency in design elements, and a smoother interaction without altering any existing workflows for users.
ID: 516043 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2026
Outlook: Prepare for your meeting with Copilot chat in Outlook mobile
Outlook mobile users can now prepare for their meetings using Copilot chat in a single tap. This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
ID: 516568 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams rooms on Windows
The Interpreter agent acts as a translator in Microsoft Teams meetings, allowing participants to listen to the meeting in their chosen language with real-time translation so speaking different languages isn’t a barrier to effective understanding and collaboration. It’s now available in Teams Rooms on Windows licensed for Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 516571 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Triage your inbox on-the-go with Copilot voice for Outlook mobile
Stay on top of your inbox with the new Copilot voice experience in the Outlook mobile app. Copilot starts by summarizing your most recent unread emails and then suggests actions like flagging, pinning, archiving, deleting or drafting a reply – all without the hassle of navigating your inbox by hand. You can interrupt or redirect Copilot at any point in the conversation.
ID: 516575 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Project Manager Agent in M365 Copilot
The new Project Manager agent in Microsoft 365 will help you plan, organize, and manage work more efficiently. We’re starting with core task and plan management features to simplify project tracking and will introduce additional advanced project management capabilities over time.
ID: 516576 Release: Planner, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Planner capabilities in Copilot chat (M365 Copilot)
You’ll soon be able to create Planner tasks and view task details directly in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat. This integration makes it easy to manage and update your tasks seamlessly across Copilot and Planner without switching apps.
ID: 516577 Release: Planner, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery – Add Sample to Review Set
This feature allows users to add only a sampled subset of search results to a review set, rather than adding the entire query output. Users can configure sampling parameters—such as confidence level and sample size—to ensure the subset meets their review objectives while reducing unnecessary data ingestion.
ID: 516578 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Apps in Private Channels for Microsoft Teams
Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific private channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts.
ID: 518215 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Consult and merge a PSTN caller through DTMF
Users have always been able to dial a phone number and add someone to a meeting. Now, meeting organizers can seamlessly consult and merge PSTN callers to active Teams meetings even if they are behind auto-attendants that require Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, or DTMF, navigation. For example, you can connect with and consult a subject matter expert through an audio conference dial-in before adding them to the group discussion.
ID: 518218 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Entra: Cross-tenant security group synchronization
We’re introducing cross-tenant group synchronization, a new capability that enables organizations to synchronize security groups across Microsoft Entra tenants. This feature simplifies collaboration scenarios by allowing shared access to resources across tenants while maintaining centralized group management. It also streamlines administration of multiple tenants by centralizing group membership control, reducing duplication and manual overhead.
ID: 518221 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete Teams transcripts and/or Teams recordings
Introducing a capability to Purview compliance admins via a Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention hold or legal holds to delete content on OneDrive or SharePoint Online such as Teams meeting transcripts and/or recordings earlier than the hold durations to comply with emerging compliance requirements. Leveraging Simulation, authoring approvals, Audit and disposition reviews to set-up and enforce defensible policies.
ID: 518223 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer
Introduces enhanced controls in Content Explorer’s UI, enabling scoped visibility and filtering of SIT and label data. This will help with content discoverability and governance.
ID: 518224 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introduction of both in-product cost estimator and transparency report
Introducing a Data Security Investigations (DSI) lightweight cost estimator designed to help analysts model and forecast both storage and compute unit costs based on specific use cases, enabling more accurate budget planning. In addition to the estimator, a new report provides granular breakdowns of billed storage and compute unit usage, empowering DSI analysts to identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resource allocation.
ID: 518225 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing integration with Data Security Posture Management and deepening integration with Defender XDR, Insider Risk Management
Data Security Investigations (DSI) insights are now being incorporated into Data Security Posture Management to support the prevention of sensitive content exfiltration. Additionally, DSI integrations with Defender XDR and Insider Risk Management are being enhanced, reflecting customer feedback received during the Public Preview phase.
ID: 518226 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new AI analysis capabilities
Data Security Investigations (DSI) now features advanced AI analysis tools, including options to add investigative context for higher-quality results, as well as improvements in vector search relevance and content categorization to better identify risky material. Additionally, we’ve launched a new AI-powered search function that lets investigators use natural language to locate specific files by searching through keywords, metadata, and embeddings.
ID: 518228 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Excel: Generate formulas directly in the grid with natural language
Just type ‘=’ in the grid or formula bar, describe what formula you need in plain language, and Copilot instantly generates the right formula – right where you’re already working. No need to open a task pane or switch context; stay in your natural formula workflow
ID: 518269 Release: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for Windows endpoints on Omnissa environments
This feature allows Windows endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance.
ID: 518286 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: LDAP directory support for S/MIME in New Outlook
The new Outlook now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories for sending S/MIME encrypted emails. This allows users to add an LDAP directory in the new Outlook and use it to fetch recipients’ certificates from the configured directory when sending S/MIME encrypted messages. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 518287 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2026
Outlook: Support for Storing S/MIME Certificates in Contacts in New Outlook
The new Outlook will now allow users to store S/MIME encryption certificates within their Contacts. This enables users to save certificates directly in contact entries and use them to send S/MIME encrypted emails to the contacts. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 518288 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration – Continuous employee engagement for leaders and managers with workplace metrics
Stay connected to your team’s engagement with Viva Insights Workplace Metrics, available alongside your survey results in Viva Glint. Between survey cycles, leaders and managers can use these continuous, real-time metrics to see how their team is working and evaluate whether actions they are taking to improve engagement are having the desired impact. This feature currently supports work-life balance and collaboration metrics, with more areas planned in the future.
ID: 518289 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to variant limits and detection groups
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management variant limit is being increased from 3 to 10 per indicator and an overall limit of 100 across all indicators. Along with this, the number of items in one detection group is being increased from 200 to 500.
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: 518291 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Page Agent
The SharePoint Page Agent is a declarative agent that enables users to create and refine SharePoint pages directly within BizChat or other Copilot apps. It seamlessly integrates SharePoint authoring into everyday conversations, eliminating the need to switch apps or manually open SharePoint. With this feature, users can generate structured content such as meeting recaps, announcements, and project updates, create SharePoint pages instantly from chat.
ID: 518641 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for file uploads to unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business
Inline protections for file upload protection are directly integrated into for Edge for Business to help prevent data leakage when users upload files to consumer GenAI apps in the browser. In addition to existing text upload controls in Purview collection and DLP policies, Admins can now detect and enforce inline protections on file uploads. Policies can target file-specific conditions such as file size, file type, and sensitive information types, enabling organizations to audit or block activities for users in Edge on Intune-managed Windows devices.
ID: 518642 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
o Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for more unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business
Inline protections for text and file uploads, directly integrated into for Edge for Business, can be applied to more unmanaged consumer GenAI apps. Admins can now apply Purview collection policies and Purview DLP policies to detect and protect inline against sensitive data sharing in the Edge browser by users on Intune-managed Windows devices to a selection of new unmanaged app locations.
ID: 518643 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Universal Print: Scan with Universal Print
I can scan documents using my regular scanning capable multi-functional-printer and will get an email notification that my scan is ready to download.
ID: 519572 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2026
Universal Print: audit logging
I can access Universal Print audit records of key administrator and user activities, such as print job submissions, configuration changes, and printer registrations. Audit records will be available in Microsoft Purview’s Unified Audit Log for compliance and long-term record-keeping.
ID: 519573 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2026
Outlook: Outlook for Android supports PDF attachment preview
Users can now preview PDFs directly in the Outlook for Android app.
ID: 520386 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purviewl: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps
Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.
ID: 520388 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Cross-platform policies in the Edge management service
Admins can now configure policies for Edge for Business across macOS, iOS, and Android devices on top of their existing Windows configurations in the Edge management service.
ID: 522536 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: Improved Autofill experience in Microsoft Edge
When users fill in an Address on a form, they will be prompted to choose whether to save it for future Autofill suggestions. This enhancement ensures Autofill data is saved intentionally by users and reduces unwanted entries as part of their Autofill suggestion.
ID: 522537 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring)
Microsoft Purview introduces the Classifier Simulation Mode, the first phase of the broader Classifier Health Monitoring Platform.
This capability enables you to test, analyze, and optimize custom classifiers on production data before publishing them, hence offering a reliable means of verifying the effectiveness of classifiers before committing them to live environments.
Custom classifiers are powerful tools but can sometimes include inefficient regex patterns or overly broad logic, leading to Noisy classifier due to high matches, False positives and High scanning latency
Simulation Mode mitigates these risks by allowing you to validate classifier quality and performance before publishing, helping ensure healthy, performant, and more precise classification outcomes.
ID: 523201 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: DSPM data risk assessments: item-level investigation & remediation
Microsoft Purview Data risk assessments now support item-level investigation and remediation of SharePoint data. Item-level insights like sensitivity label and sharing links created help users identify potentially overshared items. Users are empowered to remediate overshared items by resolving, notifying, applying a sensitivity label, or removing sharing links for selected item(s). This helps organizations proactively reduce data exposure, strengthen compliance posture, and ensure sensitive data are only accessible to the right people.
ID: 523202 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chats can reference Memory
While users are in M365 Copilot voice chat, Copilot can respond using existing memories already stored in user personalization settings. Users cannot modify/edit their memories from voice chats yet due to privacy considerations. All memories that can be used for Copilot responses in voice chat are visible and manageable by users in their Personalization settings.
ID: 523204 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Collapsible Automatic Replies on Outlook for Android
Now when users receive multiple automatic replies at once, they appear collapsed in the reading pane by default. Users can then expand to see all the automatic replies if desired.
ID: 523207 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Collapsible Automatic Replies on Outlook for iOS
Now when users receive multiple automatic replies at once, they appear collapsed in the reading pane by default. Users can then expand to see all the automatic replies if desired.
ID: 523208 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager – Regulatory Navigator
This feature in Purview Compliance Manager shall enable customers to convert complex regulations from PDF documents to actionable controls and actions in multi cloud environment. Customers can use the converted regulatory templates to create assessments and identify compliance gaps, understand and implement controls to improve their compliance posture.
ID: 523209 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Simplified controls to manage external collaboration
Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization’s external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and select either the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings.
ID: 523211 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview in Microsoft Admin Center
AI and IT admins in Microsoft Admin Center can 1) gain visibility around oversharing risks and drive remediations 2) Understand how much of sensitive copilot interactions are protected and turn on Purview DLP for M365 Copilot right from there. Enables secure adoption of Copilot.
ID: 523212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Teams frontline BYOD onboarding wizard
Simplify frontline onboarding with an improved Teams mobile experience on personal devices. Workers can easily download and start using the Teams mobile app on their own device in compliance with organizational security policies, reducing the need for manager assistance and IT support.
ID: 523213 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Restart your Town hall event
Teams town hall producers can now restart a live event while the event is active in order to address technical issues that might arise during the execution of an instance. Whether technical, network, or other issue, this feature enables those managing the event to quickly resolve problems for attendees. This feature is designed to prevent the need for scheduling entirely new events.
ID: 523214 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Add a Partner to Viva Glint
This feature will simplify the process to onboard external resources (Partners) to your Viva Glint instance.
ID: 523216 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your Command Center for AI Success
The refreshed Copilot landing page in Microsoft 365 admin center gives an at-a-glance view of your Copilot journey across Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. It includes success metrics for each pillar, new metrics like active chat users, assisted hours, and satisfaction rate, plus multi-signal, personalized and actionable insights to drive adoption. We’ve added a security pivot for Purview actions and centralized Copilot usage reports under a new usage pivot.
ID: 523222 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Planner: Support for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity labels
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity label support in Planner will enable encryption, restrict unauthorised actions such as copying, printing, or exporting plan contents, and add visual markings like watermarks for clear sensitivity awareness. By enforcing content-level protections, Planner will help organisations prevent data leaks, maintain compliance, and enable secure collaboration without affecting productivity.
ID: 523819 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview: 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: 525363 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Updated Compose Actions in Outlook Mobile
We are updating the toolbar when composing an email so you can customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.
ID: 525364 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Updated Multi-Select Actions in Outlook Mobile
We are updating the toolbar when selecting multiple emails so you can customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.
ID: 525365 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls
Interpreter, now available in Teams meetings, is expanding to Teams calls. Interpreter enables real-time speech-to-speech interpretation in up to nine languages, allowing participants to speak and listen in their preferred language. Interpreter helps eliminate language barriers and fosters seamless collaboration across global teams. For a more inclusive experience, users can also opt to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice.
ID: 526777 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Tenant-Owned Domain Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging
Identify if an external user comes from a domain that is impersonating the recipient tenant’s own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
ID: 526780 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: VDI optimization monitoring in Best practice configurations dashboard
Administrator can monitor which locations and users across their organization are facing meeting quality issues due to unoptimized VDI.
ID: 526781 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Viva: Update storyline cover photos in Teams for iOS.
Users will be able to update their storyline cover photo from Teams for iOS. This is already currently supported on Teams for Android or Windows, Mac, on the web.
ID: 526783 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Teams Admin Agent
Administrators can troubleshoot Teams meetings and calls in Teams admin center with ease with a streamlined flow, meeting quality issues, and detailed telemetry.
ID: 526784 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Excel: Python in Excel
Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.
ID: 526786 Release: Excel – GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365: People Skills profile editing improvements
People Skills is releasing two updates to give you more control over how others see your skills profile and ease of access for skill profile management. With these updates, you can easily control the order in which the skills you confirm are displayed to others in your profile card. Additionally, you’ll find a new deep link directly to skill profile editing from the Skills component on the profile card.
These updates will begin rollout to customers in November and are expected to be available to all People Skills customers by December.
ID: 526787 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
SharePoint: Microsoft designed dark themes for SharePoint Sites
Introduce two official Microsoft-designed dark themes for SharePoint sites, delivering a modern, elegant look with improved visual comfort and accessibility. These themes provide consistent branding options and enhance user experience in low-light environments while maintaining compliance with Microsoft design standards.
ID: 526788 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast
With this feature when multiple files are involved in a DLP enforcement action, the policy tip will now show multiple files and their respective status.
ID: 526789 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Show remote machine information on File Copy to Remote Desktop
Admin should be able to see destination machine information when end-user copy a sensitive file to a remote machine through RDP.
ID: 526791 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Mac 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 assign policy based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different Mac devices.
ID: 526792 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot settings – readiness
Copilot readiness in the Microsoft 365 admin center provides a centralized experience for applying Microsoft’s recommended settings, policies, and actions for Copilot. It organizes these into predefined packages so admins can quickly deploy Copilot securely and confidently.
ID: 526793 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Site Branding Governance via PowerShell
Empower tenant admins to centrally manage SharePoint site branding using PowerShell scripts. This feature enables organizations to enforce consistent branding, apply enterprise themes to individual sites, disable custom branding on specific sites, and audit branding changes – ensuring branding compliance and a unified brand experience across all SharePoint sites.
ID: 526794 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Hide Declined Meetings in Outlook Mobile
If you have enabled Show declined events in New Outlook, you can choose to hide declined events in your Outlook iOS or Android app. Go to Settings > Calendar > Hide Declined Events. This will filter out declined events from your mobile calendar, while keeping those events visible in New Outlook.
ID: 526795 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection- New Summary Metrics in Content Explorer for Unscanned Files and Classification History Details
Enhance Content Explorer by introducing new summary metrics that provide better visibility into scanning and classification activities. This update will include:
1. Unscanned Files Summary
Displays the count and percentage of files that have not been scanned for classification, helping admins identify gaps and take corrective action.
2. Classification History Insights
Shows trends and details of classification changes over time, helping admins to discover the stale data in their organization
ID: 526796 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Admin units support for SharePoint Online
Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.
ID: 526797 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Announcement page on update experience
Edge for Business will introduce a “What’s New” enhancements page to the Edge update experience. This page will help your users understand how to best utilize the browser’s newest features for maximum productivity.
ID: 526798 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups in GCC
App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.
ID: 527830 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include – stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action.
ID: 527831 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Edge: New WebGL software backend
Microsoft Edge, on Windows systems without a physical GPU, will use the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) rasterizer for WebGL workloads. Prior versions use SwiftShader. This scenario is most common associated with headless environments and virtual machines. On non-Windows platforms, a physical GPU will be required for WebGL moving forward.
ID: 527833 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
SharePoint: Get relevant information from Lists in Knowledge Agent
Users will be able to find relevant information, matching items and get answers from Microsoft Lists using Knowledge Agent.
ID: 527837 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Outlook: Updated Copilot Button for Android
We are updating the UI for Copilot Chat so that the button is separate from the mail and event compose buttons. This feature will be available for users with a Copilot license.
ID: 527838 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Resizable Gallery in Teams Meetings
Resize the video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared
ID: 528930 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Forms: Enable Sensitivity Labels
Microsoft Forms will enable sensitivity labels, empowering organizations to control access and manage information protection directly within Forms. Authors and co-authors will be able to manually assign or edit sensitivity labels on forms, ensuring that only users with appropriate permissions can access form design and response pages. Sensitivity labels will also be inherited by Excel files generated from Forms, maintaining consistent data protection across exported content.
ID: 528932 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-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: 528978 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1
Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can enable Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP), End user reporting and admin quarantine for zapped Teams messages.
ID: 529816 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Filter Out Declined Meetings in Outlook Mobile
You can now declutter your calendar by hiding declined meetings. If you’ve enabled “Show declined meetings” in New Outlook or Outlook for the Web, you’ll see a setting in Outlook Mobile to hide them for a simpler view.
ID: 529848 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2025
Outlook: Calendar Conditional Formatting in New Outlook
Users can now apply basic conditional formatting rules to the calendar in new Outlook, allowing events and appointments to be color-coded based on sender, location, attendees, and more. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 529849 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Outlook: Enriching profile cards with custom, organization-specific properties
Customers can now customize their M365 profile cards by adding custom properties unique to their organization. These properties can be sourced from external systems like HR platforms, enriching user profiles with relevant organizational details. Tenant admins can configure these properties with a display name and icon, which will appear in the Contact Information section of the profile cards.
ID: 529851 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Network Device Interface (NDI) bandwidth increase
Microsoft Teams will soon increase the bandwidth when Network Device Interface (NDI) is used with Teams meetings, webinars, or town halls. When an NDI feed is subscribed within the meeting, the bandwidth will automatically increase without the need to pin or spotlight select users for prioritization. Customers can experience up to 8 distinct 1080p NDI streams based on network conditions.
ID: 529854 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Entra: ID Account Recovery
Self-Serv Account Recovery for tenants using Passkey.Account Recovery from Total Loss using Verified ID with Face Check
ID: 529857 Release: Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Semantic Goodbye word for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Now users can close a voice session on Windows by simply saying bye or goodbye when they want to close voice session. This, paired with “Hey Copilot” wake word, provides them with complete hands-free experience for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows devices.
ID: 529864 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: New Admin Control for Turning off People Skills
This is a new control that tenant admins may use to turn off People Skills User Experiences for the entire organization, user group subsets, or individual users. This control can also be used to selectively deploy People Skills to a small group of pilot users before broader deployment to the rest of the tenant.
ID: 529865 Release: Microsoft 365 admin center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – Chat & Search Browser Extension for Chrome
The Microsoft 365 Copilot browser extension for Chrome brings Copilot Chat and Search directly into the browser, enabling users to ask questions, summarize webpages, and search enterprise content without switching tabs. This improves productivity, reduces context switching, and provides secure, compliant in-browser AI assistance for Microsoft 365 users.
ID: 530577 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Shared call history in Queues app
Queues app now supports shared history for all missed, incoming, and outgoing calls in a queue. This new feature provides greater visibility and collaboration by allowing users to view a complete call history across the team. Shared history can be enabled by your Teams admin, who can choose to grant access to either: All members of the queue, or Only authorized users
ID: 530579 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Now smarter with visuals: Declarative Agents leverage embedded images for richer, more accurate answers
Declarative Agents have been enhanced to interpret and ground responses using images embedded in files such as Word documents (.docx), PowerPoint presentations (.pptx), and PDFs. This capability allows the agent to extract insights from visual elements like charts, diagrams, and screenshots, ensuring that answers are not only text-based but also informed by graphical context. By combining textual and visual understanding, Declarative Agents deliver more comprehensive and contextually accurate responses for complex queries.
ID: 531758 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Agents
Enables users to schedule recurring prompts to declarative agents like Analyst, Idea Coach and more.
ID: 531759 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data
Copilot Chat in Outlook expanding to support reasoning over a user’s entire inbox, calendar and other enterprise data for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
ID: 531910 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Web tab
Enables users to schedule recurring prompts in the Web tab
ID: 531911 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit Scheduled prompts
Enable customers to edit the scheduled prompt schedule
ID: 531912 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Natural language support for Scheduling prompts
This feature allows users to simply express their intention conversationally, and Copilot infers their intention and creates a scheduled prompt automatically.
ID: 531913 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduling with Copilot
Scheduling with Copilot: Users can now schedule meetings directly from chat. Simply ask Copilot to schedule a meeting with colleagues, and it will find available times, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites—all within the chat experience. This feature will roll out in phases and is expected to be generally available in Copilot chat across all endpoints for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license in the coming months.
ID: 532735 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 Model Selector
GPT-5 Model selector gives users more control over reasoning depth, enabling automatic reasoning for simple tasks and explicit control when desired. The three modes that are supported as part of GPT-5 are: Auto (default) – system decides how long to think, Instant (chat) – fast responses, thinking (reasoning) – longer thinking for better answers.
ID: 532736 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps
We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Copilot Chat across web, mobile and desktop.
ID: 533043 Release: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel
The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place.
ID: 470597 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Share apps from app bar via right click
Allow users to right-click and share apps directly from the app icon on hover, while using the app.
ID: 483355 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups
Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted.
ID: 488298 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Meeting Protection – Prevent Screen Capture
To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information. This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android). For users joining from unsupported platforms, they will be placed in audio-only mode to maintain the integrity of the meeting’s content.
ID: 490561 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: share file in chat with external users
Collaborating with users outside your organization has become more streamlined. You can now share files and Loop components with external users in 1:1, group, and meeting chats. When sending a file or Loop component, it will be automatically provisioned to users in the chat, or you can change its permissions.
ID: 492625 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Open Teams’ apps in new window
Organize your work environment to fit your needs. Users can open Teams’ apps, like Chat, Calls, Activity and more in separate windows, allowing users to view and interact with these apps simultaneously.
ID: 495003 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Expand and collapse folders when moving emails
Users can now expand and collapse folder trees in the move/copy email dialog. This makes it easier to navigate large folder structures and find the right destination faster, improving efficiency and control during email triage. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 497418 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center
Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center
ID: 498226 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365: SMTP onboarding to App Role Based Access Control
We’re simplifying how organizations grant applications permission to send email on behalf of mailboxes. Today, customers must manually assign permissions to each individual mailbox using PowerShell, which is time-consuming and inefficient. With this new capability, admins can assign the SMTP.SendAsApp role to an app through App Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), enabling group-based or scoped access to mailboxes. This eliminates the need for per-mailbox configuration and streamlines onboarding for SMTP clients using OAuth. It’s a scalable, secure, and modern approach to managing mailbox access for applications.
ID: 498356 Release: Exchange, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report
Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Preview) 1. Addition of Weekly active user count 2. Report aggregation changed to weekly to main consistency with other reports
ID: 499421 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page
Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page
ID: 499425 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Word for Enhanced document editing
Copilot supports document editing in Word through chat-based interactions with Agent Mode. Users can initiate edits, share clarifying directions, and review a summary of changes within the document.
ID: 499428 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites
The News page renders news items in a given site. It is typically accessed via the “see all” experience of a news web part. We are updating the user experience of this page and bringing in Copilot capabilities to licensed users.
ID: 499654 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Immersive events in Microsoft Teams
Host interactive virtual events with avatars in customizable 3D spaces. Schedule immersive events from your Teams calendar and join events directly in Microsoft Teams on PC or Mac. Organizers can customize an immersive event’s 3D space with images, videos, and 3D models, no coding skills required. Attendees can mingle in the 3D space and engage with different features that provide a rich interactive experience.
ID: 500017 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Graph APIs for Standard eDiscovery Cases
Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses.
ID: 500869 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: User based alert aggregation
User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior.
ID: 501786 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal
We’re excited to announce UX improvements to the DLP Alerts Portal in Purview to help you triage incidents faster and more efficiently. What’s New: 1. Unified View: Events related to each alert are now available directly on the alerts page — no need to switch to new tab or drill down. 2. Faster Access: Access event details (e.g. Impacted assets) with just 1 click on the main alerts page itself, compared to 4 clicks earlier, reducing triage time significantly. 3. Enhanced Context: We’ve added 4 new columns – Location, DLP Rule name, DLP Policy name, Rule Action to display key alert and event attributes upfront — giving you more visibility at a glance. 4. Performance Boost: Cache improvements to ensure faster load times and a smoother experience. These updates are designed to streamline your workflow, reduce response times, and give you the context you need — all in a single, efficient view.
ID: 501787 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for GCC-M
Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users.
ID: 502854 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for DoD
Easily access Copilot Chat from a side pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. This is available for Copilot Chat users with a Microsoft 365 license and for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users.
ID: 502855 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Message Warnings for Messages with Malicious URL in Teams
Messages in Teams that contain malicious URLs will now be automatically detected, and a warning will be displayed directly on the message.
ID: 502879 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Agentic AI Phish Submission Analysis & Response
We are introducing Advanced Agentic AI grading system integrated into the native MDO submission analysis and response workflow. This integration allows for prompt, detailed verdicts with natural language explanations when customers report phishing messages to Microsoft.
ID: 503112 Release: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Emojis in Section Names
Choose an emoji to accompany section names in your chats and channels list.
ID: 503300 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Search for images
Search for images by message content, people, or where they were shared. See results as you type, filter to show only images, or explore them in the dedicated Images tab — all from the search bar.
ID: 505443 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: 1080P Resolution in Teams Town Halls
Teams town hall will soon bring 1080P resolution to Teams town hall. This enhancement brings a sharper appearance with more visual clarity to videos, images, and other visual assets within your online events. This feature is available for town halls created by organizers with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 513270 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone who has an email address
Start a chat with anyone who has an email address, even if they’re not on Teams! They’ll receive an email inviting them to join your chat session as a guest. You’ll be able to chat, share files, and start calls all within Teams!
ID: 513271 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Channel agent to 3P MCP tool orchestration in Teams channels
Agent-MCP Orchestration in Teams enables Channel agent to work with select third-party MCP servers, such as GitHub, Asana and Atlassian (JIRA). This setup allows collaborative workflows that mirror real human teamwork. When a user asks Channel Agent a question, the agent can collaborate with other tools to gather information or complete tasks, transparently showing each step of its reasoning along the way.
ID: 515466 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Inline protection, alerting, and incident management for sensitive data shared over the network through non-Microsoft SASE integrations
Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and Insider Risk Management indicators to the network by integrating with your existing non-Microsoft Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect traffic inline at the network layer and enforce actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. If configured, these signals also inform user risk indicators in Insider Risk Management.
ID: 522095 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Integration with Entra GSA Internet Access to enable sensitive file filtering at the network layer
Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to filter sensitive files at the network layer by integrating with Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect files at the network layer and enforce restrictive actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender.
ID: 522096 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Search Engage conversations in Teams mobile
Users will be able to search for Viva Engage conversations directly in the Viva Engage app for Teams.
ID: 526707 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to channel agents
Each channel can have a dedicated agent that draws on the channel’s knowledge to act as a domain expert for the team. New enhancements enable the agent to use files from the channel’s SharePoint when responding to queries, create ad hoc status reports configured through natural language, and generate new workback plans that can be added to Planner. In addition, new controls in Teams Admin Center allow admins to disable automatic agent creation.
ID: 527829 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot
People connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on top of Graph connectors, will integrate and enrich people data from various sources into Microsoft 365. This enriched data will enhance experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, the profile card, and people search.
ID: 480736 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business
With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt. Starting with some of the top consumer GenAI apps (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek), admins will be able to block typed prompts containing sensitive data. The inline protection capability complements existing endpoint DLP controls for uploading or pasting sensitive content in the browser.
ID: 486368 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview: Inline discovery of sensitive data shared over the network
Extension of Microsoft Purview policies to the network by integrating Purview with your existing Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. Through this integration, admins can intercept and inspect traffic flowing through the network layer to identify the presence of sensitive data and enforce DLP policies on it.
ID: 488807 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New configuration option in Collection Policies for targeted detection of Enterprise AI app interactions
This category will empower admins to precisely control and optimize the signals and data collected across enterprise AI apps in Purview solutions, enable better compliance with local regulations, reduce noise from SITs and user activities that aren’t relevant to your organization to improve resource efficiency, and control ingestion of prompts and responses. These apps include ChatGPT Enterprise, apps built on Azure AI service, and Microsoft Entra-connected AI apps.
ID: 492623 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Delete survey cycles
This feature enables Glint Admins to delete survey cycles within a configured program. When a cycle is deleted, all associated data—including reporting—will be removed from the platform. The feature is intended for removing obsolete or test cycles that are no longer needed.
ID: 493324 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Personal email triggers
In this update, we are adding the recently added email indicators in Insider Risk Management as triggers. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains – Users will be brought into scope of a policy 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 – Users will be brought into scope of a policy 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 triggers in the data leaks or data leaks by priority users template.
ID: 496149 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: File tab in Ribbon
The File tab provides new Outlook users with the ability to easily discover account info, settings, PSTs, and more directly from the ribbon. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 500640 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Agent & bot support for Entra authentication in group chats
Agents & bots in group chats will now be able to authenticate through Entra. When an app requests a user’s Entra token in a group chat, if that user does not have the app installed or Entra consent, they are sent a targeted message. This targeted message is only visible to that user. This message serves two purposes: to ask the user to install the Teams app personally and to open the Entra permission consent dialog. Once both requirements are met, the app can leverage Entra for the requested permissions (e.g., Graph).
ID: 503557 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Multilingual Support in Copilot for Viva Glint
Copilot in Viva Glint is expanding its capabilities to support multilingual interactions, allowing users to submit prompts and receive responses in their preferred language. This enhancement improves accessibility and usability for global organizations by enabling Copilot to detect the language of user input, and return responses in the same language.
ID: 508531 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Copilot Notebooks are now available to 13-17 year-old users with Entra ID accounts
“Copilot Notebooks will be available to 13-17 year-old users (students) with Entra ID accounts within the Microsoft 365 Copilot and OneNote apps.
ID: 510105 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Users can search for their settings in the Teams settings app
Within the Teams Settings app, we are now allowing the user to search for their desired setting through the search text box.
ID: 512427 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Universal Print: Mobile print from the phone
This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer accurate. We apologize for any inconvenience. Integration of Universal Print with the Microsoft 365 Copilot phone app will enable users to add work/school printers to their phones. Once the printers are installed on the phone, the user can print to them from any phone app that has a print action.
ID: 395216 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Teams: Theme accent colors
We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Make Teams feel more like your own with new customization options. Customize Teams colors by choosing your favorite theme accent color—just like you can in Outlook.
ID: 497139 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Outlook: Copilot Proactive Drafts
Copilot will detect emails that are most likely to need a response and pre-generate three options for you review and select from. Save time and energy responding to high priority emails with proactive drafts. We will be pausing development of this feature for the time being. We apologize for any inconveniences.
ID: 497671 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025