Play of the Week
October 23, 2025
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. This feature update is scheduled for November 2025.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates for October 23, 2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar search for email delegates
Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes.
ID: 413718 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate a formula with Copilot from the grid upon “=”
Type “=” anywhere on your grid or in the formula bar and let Copilot generate formulas from natural language, making complex calculations simpler and faster.
ID: 496362 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint
A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes. #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 496654 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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 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 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: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds
Design and edit images, posters, banners, infographics, text drafts, and forms with Copilot—align them to your brand using kits built by you or your team.
ID: 498548 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, DoD Tags: November 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 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: November CY2025
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 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 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
Excel: =COPILOT Function
Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data.
ID: 499660 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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: November 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
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) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich Bing web answer cards on M365 Copilot
M365 Copilot will be showing the rich and interactive Bing web answer cards like Weather, Stocks etc. to relevant queries to enrich the responses.
ID: 500865 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Export Copilot metrics in the Copilot Dashboard
This enables users to export row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis.
ID: 500872 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video recap in Copilot Chat
Video recaps in Copilot Chat makes it easy to catch up on recorded meetings directly in Copilot Chat. It identifies and extracts key topics from transcripts, provides AI generated narration to summarize discussions, and pairs these with 20–40 second video snippets highlighting impactful moments of your meeting.
ID: 501452 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search
Find meetings—and everything connected to them, in seconds.
Copilot Search makes it effortless to locate any meeting, even if you only remember a few details. Just type what comes to mind—like “last week’s design review”, “budget sync with marketing”, or “next quarterly planning session”—and Copilot instantly finds the right event.
Copilot doesn’t just show you the meeting invite. It brings together the full context: who attended, what was discussed, what files were shared, and what follow-ups were assigned.
Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming meeting or trying to recall what was decided in a past one, Copilot gives you a complete, connected view—all from a single search bar.
ID: 501454 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
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 Intune: Recovery Lock management for macOS
This feature adds the ability to manage the password used to access the macOS recovery partition. Configuring a recovery OS password prevents users from booting company-owned devices into recovery mode, reinstalling macOS, and bypassing remote management.
ID: 501457 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2025
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Replace stock video footage with AI-Generated Images in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Easily swap stock visuals for AI-generated images in your videos using the Create experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Powered by OpenAI’s latest image generation model, this feature helps you tailor content, explain concepts more clearly, and help make your videos stand out.
ID: 501570 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights
Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by removing the requirement for 50 M365 Copilot licenses, allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns.
ID: 501581 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can create and deploy custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors across Microsoft 365.
Admins can create custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors in the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre and deploy them across Microsoft 365. This will allow admins to surface their organization’s custom data in Microsoft 365 Copilot via these MCP-based connectors.
ID: 501585 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [AdminX] Pre-setup guides, editability, actionable errors & alerting support available for Connector admins
Pre-setup guides, editability, actionable errors & alerting support available for Connector admins.
ID: 502529 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [DevX] Schema enrichment & validation for custom connectors for better relevance & UX
Schema enrichment & validation for custom connectors for better relevance & UX (Property descriptions, content Category attributes and additional semantic labels)
ID: 502538 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users can explore third-party content in Copilot chat with deep citations and side-by-side previews
Drive Copilot chat engagement for 3P content via deep citations, inline citations, side by side preview experiences.
ID: 502543 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 in Copilot Studio (embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot experience)
Create GPT-5-powered agents using Copilot Studio (lite), the embedded agent-building experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
ID: 502552 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate icons using AI in Copilot Studio lite
A picture is worth a thousand words. Before, Copilot Studio agent builders would need to use the default icon or manually upload their own image. This process meant browsing the web for an image, asking different teams for icons, or manually drawing one. Users can now use AI to describe how the icon should look like, thus helping inform end users of the agent’s function more easily, with more expression. Users can now generate icons using AI in the lite version of Copilot Studio in M365. Users can enter custom prompts or use the description of the agent to generate the icon. Alternatively, users can manually upload their own icon or select from a set of pre-created icons. Icons are capped at 1 MB (192px).
ID: 502864 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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
Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Availability Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center
Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage agents and apps that work across Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot will be able to apply their changes consistently across all these surfaces. Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, app and agent availability will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 copilot.
ID: 503105 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Domain exclusion for web grounding
This feature will allow admins to specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat #copilotcontrolsystem
ID: 503144 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: December 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
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: 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users can share custom engine agents with others to boost collaboration and reuse
Users can share custom engine agents with others to boost collaboration and reuse
ID: 503766 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users will be able to upload files stored locally or in one drive to custom engine agents
Users will be able to upload files stored locally or in one drive to custom engine agents.
ID: 503767 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents
Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents.
ID: 503771 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Support of Audit logs for custom engine agents
Support of Audit logs for custom engine agents.
ID: 503775 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search for meetings organized by a specific person
: This feature allows users to search for and find meetings using Copilot Chat that were organized by a specific person to make it easier to review and manage their calendar.
ID: 503859 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): New Create module with Word, Excel and PPT templates
New Create module within M365 Copilot App to access Word, Excel and PPT templates.
ID: 506847 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November 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: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – General Availability for the GCC High environment
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will be generally available for the GCC High environment, and it will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC High compliance boundary.
ID: 509107 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – your AI assistant in the GCCH environment
Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot your AI assistant for work in the GCC-H environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (web), Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint, and Clipchamp.
ID: 509108 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High Tags: November 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
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video Overview in Copilot Notebooks
Video overviews in Copilot Notebook generate concise, Copilot-powered videos with narration, visuals, diagrams, and text overlays—making it easy to summarize the content of your Notebook.
ID: 511793 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Scheduling via Copilot chat
Executive Assistants can now seamlessly schedule, edit, and send meeting invites on behalf of their leaders directly within Copilot chat. Using simple chat commands, they can create invites, make updates, and add attendees—all without leaving the chat experience.
ID: 511817 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Meeting Search via Copilot chat
Delegates can now use Copilot chat to quickly find their leader’s meetings—past or upcoming—by simply asking questions. They can search by attendee name, meeting title, location, or time range to instantly get details like the next 1:1 or upcoming appointments.
ID: 511818 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Delegate Meeting Triage via Copilot chat
Delegates can now manage their leader’s meetings directly through Copilot chat reviewing pending invites, accepting or declining meetings, categorizing, or even deleting them all through simple chat commands without leaving the conversation.
ID: 511819 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2026
Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks
Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.
ID: 512430 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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: November CY2025
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: 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
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector
ID: 513279 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Freshservice to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Fresh service to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector.
ID: 513280 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Dropbox to access and manage cloud files with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Dropbox to access and manage cloud files with Copilot Connector.
ID: 513282 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot Connector.
ID: 513283 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector
Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector.
ID: 513285 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context
Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
ID: 513427 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context
Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
ID: 513428 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context
Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
ID: 513429 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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: 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: 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: January CY2026
Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts
We are expanding Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot, including pre-built agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, from returning a response when prompts contain sensitive data or using that sensitive data for grounding in Microsoft 365 or the web.
ID: 515945 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2026
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516037 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516038 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization’s images.
ID: 516039 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web Link as a Reference in Copilot Notebooks
Add web links as references in your Copilot Notebooks.
ID: 516040 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Metadata understanding support for queries scoped to SharePoint document libraries or folders
We’re introducing column metadata support for queries in Microsoft 365 Copilot when a SharePoint library or folder is attached or its URL is provided. This enhancement improves contextual relevance by enabling Copilot to leverage additional metadata from the selected library, delivering more accurate and meaningful results.
ID: 516044 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation
Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
ID: 516565 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation
Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
ID: 516566 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation
Users will be able to click on “Explain this’ on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
ID: 516567 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2025
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: December CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): In Copilot Pages, the Chat can now be used to modify the Page
When a Chat and a Page are open side by side, prompts within the Chat can now be used to modify or add to the contents of the Page.
ID: 478647 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Calendar support for copying, cutting, and pasting events and appointments
Customers can now copy, cut, and paste meetings and appointments on their calendar in the new Outlook using CTRL+C, CTRL+X, and CTRL+V keyboard shortcuts. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 483489 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Edge: Built-in PDF reader powered by Adobe engine
Microsoft Edge will launch the new version of the built-in PDF reader that’s powered by Adobe’s PDF rendering engine. The new PDF reader ensures that there’s no loss of functionality and delivers an enhanced PDF experience. This experience includes richer rendering, improved performance, strong security for PDF handling, and greater accessibility.
ID: 489231 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
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
Outlook: New Scheduling and Event Creation Experience
The Outlook and Teams calendars will receive an update to the scheduling and event creation experience. Additionally, new capabilities will be available in this new experience to help streamline and enhance scheduling using Copilot.
ID: 498914 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
SharePoint: eSignature – Free Text Field Support
SharePoint eSignature users would be able to add custom free text fields to their request documents. This new eSignature field can be used to request information (such as address, full name, etc.) from signers.
ID: 499024 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame support on Teams Rooms on Android
Now Cloud IntelliFrame, the AI-based cloud technology that optimizes views of in-room participants for hybrid meetings, is available for Teams Rooms on Android using group framing. It is set as the default in those rooms, while remaining disabled by default in others. Admins can manage this behavior through console settings.
ID: 499614 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms
It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface, and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms.
ID: 499615 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Android
Users can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see in Teams Rooms on Android. Currently, live captions display in the spoken language by default, this change allows individuals to select their own experience. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 499800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Android
The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.
ID: 500635 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing available for Gov clouds
IT administrators for Gov cloud customers now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Microsoft Purview Portal. Available for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD cloud environments.
ID: 500893 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2025
Outlook: Multi-select capability for calendar categories
In #newoutlookforwindows, users can now apply more than one category to their calendar events from the event right-click context menu. Selected categories will be indicated with a check mark within this menu. This specific update is for applying multiple categories to an event.
ID: 501453 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms on Android
It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms.
ID: 502525 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forwarded Messages Links
When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation.
ID: 503099 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speed Up App Reviews with Trust-Based Filters
This feature enables IT Administrators in Teams admin center to view and easily filter apps and agents by specific industry standards, certifications and compliance attributes such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. This will help with more streamlined app evaluation workflows, enabling faster decisions and broader access to trusted apps across the organization.
ID: 503100 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views
Scoped access enables managers to view Copilot insights specific to their own organizations both on the Copilot Dashboard and in additional Copilot reports on the Reports page. This allows leaders at different levels to monitor adoption and impact within their teams, while respecting organizational boundaries and privacy. Admins can configure access criteria and set minimum thresholds.
ID: 497111 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2025
Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Microsoft Tunnel – Gateway Scaling
Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5000 to over 20,000 per server. CANCELED – This feature is no longer planned.
ID: 178921 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2025