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Outlook: Upgraded Video and Audio Player for iOS

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:03 Z

Preview videos and audio files with an improved player directly in the Outlook iOS mobile app. The enhanced player provides updated controls and a smoother playback experience.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:03 Z

Admins can enable a tenant-wide policy that allows Copilot (and Facilitator) to retain key insights from meetings beyond transcript retention periods. This enables Copilot to continue answering questions about past meetings even after transcripts expire. Admins can also configure how long this AI-generated meeting archive is stored.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Entra passwordless resource account support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:03 Z

Teams rooms on Windows supports Entra Resource Accounts for secure, passwordless sign-in that separates device and user identities. IT admins can migrate to Entra accounts easily with the migration wizard, and track progress using a dashboard in the Pro Management portal.
GA date: June CY2026

Windows 365: Windows 365 Link - Market Expansion

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Windows 365 Link will be available for sale in Norway
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Submit agent to Agent Store from Agent Builder

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Customers can submit their custom Copilot agents built in Agent Builder to the Agent Store under the "Built by your org" section, after admin review and approval in M365 Admin Center. This governed flow enables admins to review, approve, and publish submitted agents so that they can be discovered and used by others in the Agent Store. This helps organizations share validated agents at scale while maintaining quality and governance.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Admins will be able to select hard delete configuration while setting up a priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for simpler meeting passcodes (numeric‑only)

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Tenant admins can enable a meeting policy setting that generates 8 digit numeric-only passcodes for meetings organized by selected users/groups. Because numeric-only passcodes increase the risk of unauthorized access, enabling the setting displays a warning and requires explicit confirmation.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate text for a PowerPoint slide using slide context

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Copilot suggests how you should RSVP to meeting requests

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

Copilot suggests how users should RSVP to meeting requests, based on meeting importance, availability, and working hours. With help from Copilot, users can streamline meeting request triaging, increase the number of triaged meetings, and reduce the time required for triaging. We will not be launching this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconveniences.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhancements to global exclusions in IRM settings

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:15:04 Z

In this update, we are making the below enhancements to IRM exclusions to reduce alert noise. 1. Keyword logic update for email - An email will be excluded from scoring only when all the attachments match the keyword exclusions or email subject matches the keyword exclusions. This will be helpful to reduce the email signature noise which commonly contains keyword "image". 2. Keyword exclusions on both target and source file paths - For signals like file copied to removable media, keyword exclusions apply on both target and source file paths. 3. File path exclusions for removable media - We will start supporting file path exclusions for removable media. 4. Exclusion support for browser - Domain exclusions are now supported for browsing indicators. 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.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Copilot Search Suggestions for Outlook

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:15:03 Z

Get Copilot suggestions in the Outlook search menu to help you stay on top of your inbox and calendar, find what you are looking for and get more done in Outlook.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Critique in Researcher

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:15:57 Z

Responses are generated by GPT and Claude working together, with GPT drafting an initial response and Claude reviewing for increased response accuracy, completeness, and citation integrity.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher Council

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:15:57 Z

Council in Researcher runs multiple leading AI models from different providers in parallel in one place, so you can quickly compare outputs and see consensus vs. conflict) to make high-stakes decisions with greater confidence—without switching tools.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Attendee capacity packs for Teams events

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:00:36 Z

Attendee capacity packs provide increased capacity limits for Teams events. Organizers can scale event attendance beyond base limits while maintaining a consistent Teams events experience.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Video recap in Teams

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Intelligent meeting recap will now include video-based recaps. Video recap creates narrated video highlights from recorded meetings, featuring key takeaways and short clips that showcase important moments.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new soft purge mitigation action

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

A new Data Security Investigations (DSI) mitigation action, soft purge, is now available to help admins quickly and efficiently soft-delete sensitive or overshared content during investigations. Content deleted using soft purge is retained until the deleted item retention period expires, allowing admins to have further control of their data. This addition works alongside DSI’s AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

Shared mailbox users and delegates with Read and manage (full access), and/or mail folder-level permission will now be able to access Copilot Chat directly from their shared and delegate mailboxes in new Outlook.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: People Skills on the profile card expanding to Teams

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:49 Z

Access to People Skills on the Microsoft 365 profile card is expanding to Microsoft Teams. With this update, employees will be able to view skills directly on the profile card in Teams—making it easier to learn about colleagues, build meaningful connections, and manage their own skills profile right from within their everyday flow of work.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: Print calendar events in new Outlook and Teams

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:15:33 Z

Users will now have basic options for printing calendar events in the #newoutlookforwindows and Teams calendar, including choosing whether to show or hide the attendee list on the printout.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: New and Improved People Hub on Web

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

In Outlook Web, the new and updated People Hub delivers a modern, multi-column contacts experience, with fast search and a streamlined interface. It provides a unified view of each person, automatically links duplicate entries, and enriches contacts with organizational profile information where available.
GA date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Site Branding Governance via PowerShell

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Places: Microsoft Places Support to GCC cloud

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Microsoft Places features will now be available in GCC cloud
GA date: August CY2026

Outlook: Show teammates' calendars in the left navigation pane

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

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
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: New Overview experience and agent categories in Agent Dashboard

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:00:18 Z

Customers can now view and understand their agent landscape through the new Overview page that will be included as part of the Agent Dashboard in Microsoft Viva. This experience will provide customers with key at-a-glance insights on adoption in their organizations, visibility into who’s creating agents used in their organization, and details on what business process categories these agents are used for.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Unlocking Deeper Copilot Insights with Enhanced Power BI Filtering

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:00:18 Z

Enable Global and Insights admins to turn on additional attributes as filters in Power BI reports, including reserved attributes and your organization’s custom attributes. Users who have access to Power BI reports can then use these newly enabled filters to tailor reports to their business needs.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy Tips & Override in Outlook for Mac

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:00:18 Z

Outlook for Mac now supports Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy tips, helping users avoid accidental data leaks. When sensitive content is detected, users are alerted with inline tips or pop-ups, based on admin-configured rules.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Sharing recap access

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:15:57 Z

Recording and transcript owners can now grant recording and transcript access to specified people when copying or sharing recap link, and the specified people can access the recap without having to request access.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Spoken language detection is now automatic

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Spoken language detection is now fully automatic. Teams will automatically detect each speaker’s spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. This applies to both live captions and transcripts when Interpreter is enabled or when multilingual speech recognition is turned on in meeting options, helping deliver more accurate language recognition and a more consistent multilingual meeting experience.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Delimiter setting admin policy

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:57 Z

Admins will be able to define a tenant‑wide default value for the Mail Compose and Reply setting that controls whether commas are used to separate recipients.
GA date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Dark mode support in SharePoint Admin Center

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

Dark mode will now be supported in SharePoint Admin Center.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Additional Diagnostics for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:15:15 Z

The below diagnostics will help users understand which sensitive information exist in their document and what labels applied and what policies have been triggered: DLP SharePoint Diagnostics DLP EXO Diagnostics Auto labeling diagnostics for SPO/ODB
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Export metrics in the Copilot Dashboard at Day Level

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:47 Z

This feature enables users to export fresher row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis at day level. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Outlook: Draft emails using saved email snippets with Quick Parts for Outlook for Windows and web

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:35 Z

Drafting emails is faster and easier with Quick Parts, now available for Outlook for Windows and web. Quick Parts are saved email snippets that can be reused when composing new messages, making it easy to assemble messages with reusable parts. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy Tips & Override for Outlook Mobile

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Outlook Mobile now supports Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy tips, helping users avoid accidental data leaks. When sensitive content is detected, users are alerted with inline tips or pop-ups, based on admin-configured rules. This update aligns DLP behavior across all Outlook clients for consistent compliance enforcement.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Insert Graphic

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

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
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC-H and DoD sovereign clouds

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:30:32 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:15:44 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:15:23 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2027

Microsoft Teams: Annotations on Teams Single Window Sharing on macOS

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:15:15 Z

Presenters can now share a single application window and enable participants to annotate directly on top of that content, without exposing their entire desktop. This means cleaner presentations, protected privacy, and more engaging discussions across training sessions, workshops, and client meetings.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Block External Domain/User action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:15:15 Z

Block External Domain/User action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, gives organizations stronger control over who can access sensitive files. With this enhancement, admins can configure DLP policies that block file access for specific external domains or individual users. This capability helps prevent unintended exposure by external users and supports enterprise compliance requirements.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Book future meetings directly from Teams panels

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

This item is cancelled as a duplicate of 557168. We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause. You can now make an upcoming meeting reservation from a Teams panel by browsing the calendar on the device and choosing any open time slot through midnight the next day. Add a guest during booking, streamlining ad-hoc scheduling and coordination. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Shared Device licenses.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Notes now available for instant meetings

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:28 Z

Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop, are now available for instant meetings that started via ‘Meet now’ from the calendar. Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Once added, meeting notes can also be shared and edited in the Loop app in your web browser.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Now smarter with visuals: Declarative Agents leverage embedded images for richer, more accurate answers

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:57 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Files found via Chat search can be now analyzed by code interpreter

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Code interpreter runs on files you upload in your agent or that the user explicitly attaches in the interaction. Files that Copilot Chat finds via enterprise search can be now analyzed by code interpreter without the need to explicitly link or upload them.
GA date: November CY2025

Outlook: Prepare for your meeting with Copilot chat in Outlook mobile

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:15:15 Z

Outlook mobile users can now prepare for their meetings using Copilot chat in a single tap. This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Access: Add zoom slider magnification to Microsoft Access

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

Access will add magnification slider (10% to 500%) in lower right of the application, similar to the feature in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It will also be keyboard accessible and available on the ribbon.
GA date: April CY2026

Access: Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:45:17 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:15:37 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Purview in Microsoft Admin Center

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration - Exclusion List for data sharing

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:15:15 Z

Viva Glint admins will be able to manage an exclusion list in Viva Feature Access Management that prevents selected people and groups from being included in Viva Insights data shared with Viva Glint. This simplifies configuration and helps organizations apply consistent, privacy-conscious controls for the integration.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Inline DLP for Prompts for Microsoft Foundry apps and agents

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:15:15 Z

With Purview enabled in Microsoft Foundry, Purview admins can setup inline DLP policies to prompts on Foundry built apps and agents to ensure data loss prevention of sensitive data.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Improved organization for muted and meeting chats

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:50 Z

Microsoft Teams automatically organizes your chats with new built in sections that help reduce clutter and keep conversations easy to find. Muted chats (on by default) are grouped together in a dedicated area, while meeting chats (off by default) can be collected into a single section for quick access. You’re always in control, as each section can be turned on or off based on your preferences.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator detects and answers questions

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:50 Z

Facilitator now automatically detects open questions raised during a Teams meeting and offers to help answer them using web search. When a participant asks a question (e.g., “What is an LLM?”) and no one answers, Facilitator posts a prompt offering to find an answer. Participants can select “Yes” to have the agent retrieve and share the information.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Insights - New Copilot Metrics Available

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:11 Z

We are bringing a set of new Copilot metrics including actions taken in Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Edge and OneNote, and more key use cases across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint including suggested reply, translate, coach, clean data and more. This will empower customers to more deeply understand the key Copilot adoption cases in Copilot Dashboard and Advanced Analysis in Viva Insights.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Book future meetings directly from Teams panels

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:15:55 Z

You can now make an upcoming meeting reservation from a Teams panel by browsing the calendar on the device and choosing any open time slot through midnight the next day. Add a guest during booking streamlining ad-hoc scheduling and coordination. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Shared Device licenses.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Context preservation in Teams

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:15:26 Z

When you return to a conversation within a short duration of time, your selected tab, opened side panel, and layout are restored automatically, so you can keep working without resetting your workspace. In addition, returning to a Quick View within a short duration will restore your previously selected message.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Role Group changes in Purview

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

We are introducing a new Microsoft Purview RBAC role—Purview Agent Deployment—and adding it to various existing built in role groups used by analysts and admins across Purview. This change enables users who use built-in role analyst groups to deploy Security Copilot Agents in Purview without needing any additional roles. If your organization prefers to limit agent deployment permissions, you can create a custom role group that does not include the Purview Agent Deployment role and assign that custom role group to analysts who should not be able to deploy agents. This update does not change default data access or expand visibility into customer content. All other permissions within each role group remain unchanged. Analysts who are assigned to custom role groups will not be able to deploy agents unless the Purview Agent Deployment role is explicitly added to those custom groups. We recommend reviewing and updating your organization’s RBAC documentation, internal processes, or onboarding guides to reflect these change We recommend reviewing and updating your organization’s RBAC documentation, internal processes, or onboarding guides to reflect these changes.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Triage your inbox on-the-go with Copilot voice for Outlook mobile

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Planner: Planner Agent in group-based basic plans

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

Planner Agent will now be available for M365 Copilot licensed users in all group-based Planner plans, including basic plans.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover graph connector prompts in the Prompt Gallery when using Copilot Chat

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Popular graph connector prompts will now be available in the Prompt Gallery for use in Copilot Chat.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can create and deploy custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors across Microsoft 365.

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:00:03 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:00:59 Z

Voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a natural, hands-free conversational experience to your desktop and mobile devices – enabling you to talk to Copilot like a colleague, unlocking a faster, more intuitive way to work. Speak directly to M365 Copilot to search for information, catch up between meetings, brainstorm out loud, and do it all in multiple languages.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:45:58 Z

This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Extending AI in SharePoint using custom skills

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:50 Z

Skills allow extensibility of the SharePoint AI Agent, enabling customizable solutions that adapt to unique business needs. They address gaps in out-of-the-box functionality for unique business processes and enable reusable multi-step workflows.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Following feed in Viva Engage

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:50 Z

A new feed type available to users to catch up on posts from people and communities they follow with featured, leadership, and corporate updates.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Catalog – Migration tool in Unified Catalog to migrate classic glossary terms to Unified Catalog

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:50 Z

Use the in-product migration tool in Unified Catalog to migrate classic glossary terms, associated term templates, and asset and column relationships to Unified Catalog
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Excel spreadsheets from Copilot Notebooks

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:38 Z

Copilot Notebooks allows users to generate Excel spreadsheets using the content and references gathered in a notebook. Copilot drafts a structured spreadsheet grounded in the notebook’s context, which can be opened and edited in Excel, helping users move from ideas and source material to a ready‑to‑use spreadsheet with fewer manual steps.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

SharePoint: Lists as a knowledge source for agents in SharePoint and OneDrive

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

We’re introducing support for Microsoft Lists as a knowledge source for custom agents in SharePoint and OneDrive. These custom agents can now ground responses in a list stored on a SharePoint site or your OneDrive.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Attendant Agent

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:28 Z

Add conversational intelligence to your phone communications to ensure every customer gets served no matter what time of day - even after hours and holidays. Microsoft Teams Phone Attendant Agent greets callers, answers common questions, schedules appointments, and routes calls to the right person or department with context. Through seamless integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio, businesses can embed custom voice agents into Attendant Agent to handle specialized workflows like billing, order status, or inventory checks.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone user multi-line

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

Teams Phone user multi‑line gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support across Teams desktop, Teams mobile, and Teams devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities - all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Hide meetings toolbar

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

We are not releasing this feature at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Users can now hide their entire meeting controls toolbar during meetings to create more space or simply clean up their workspace. The setting will persist across their meetings, and the toolbar can be accessed through hover or tab functionality even when in hidden mode. Keyboard shortcuts will still remain active as they are today.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Experts & verified answers in communities in Engage and Teams for iOS & Android

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:15:46 Z

In the Engage app for Android and Engage app in Teams for iOS and Android, we are introducing the Community Expert. Experts will be able to endorse accurate and credible answers and be recognized as community experts with a special label next to their name. As well, experts & community admins will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers to signal a credible and accurate answer. Verified answers will receive its own special label.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention-Endpoint DLP Device Status API

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:28 Z

Provides access to the same device health details currently available through the export function on the device onboarding page. With the new device status API, customers can pull device-level information directly into their own BI tools, dashboards, and workflows, eliminating manual exports and making it easier to automate reporting at scale.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

SharePoint: OneNote usage inclusion in SharePoint site analytics

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

With this release, usage from OneNote files (.one) in SharePoint will be included in SharePoint site analytics metrices "Unique viewers" and "Site visits". You will also see OneNote files appear in the popular content section if a OneNote file is heavily used in the last 7 days. Refer to the more information link to learn more about the list of excluded file types.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-usage-data-for-your-sharepoint-site-2fa8ddc2-c4b3-4268-8d26-a772dc55779e
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Search] [Copilot Search] Copilot Chat available when using Copilot Search

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

Copilot Chat will be available for Microsoft 365 Copilot users from the side pane on the right-hand side when using Copilot Search in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This allows users to engage with Copilot while browsing universal search without switching pages or losing context.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage community membership management in Teams for iOS & Android

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

Community admins will be able to add and remove members from their communities.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Consult and merge a PSTN caller through DTMF

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Unread News Notifications in Connections

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:15:20 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

After further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as "launched." The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization's needs. Updated February 24, 2026: We previously marked this item as launched when it is still in Preview. We expect to move to GA later this year. We apologize for this inconvenience.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:15:55 Z

Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Badging updates help find messages that count in the chat list

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:15:47 Z

Microsoft Teams displays a badge on the app bar that reflects activity across chats and channels. Now, it’s easier to find and clear the messages behind that badge. Unmuted chats show a purple indicator when they affect the badge, while mentions, followed threads, and tag mentions display a purple number indicating how many items within are unread and part of the count.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Quick access to read items from unread-only view

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:15:47 Z

Teams chat and channel lists can be filtered to show unread items only. When this filter is applied, hovering over a section reveals an eye icon next to the section name. Selecting the eye icon opens a list of read chats or channels within that section, allowing you to open them without leaving the unread-only view.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: [Engage] Pinned resources & related communities in Teams for iOS

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:15:47 Z

Users will be able to see a community's pinned resources and related communities in Teams for iOS.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Apply default SharePoint library labels to data at rest

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:15:47 Z

Introduce an AI-powered capability leveraging Microsoft Security Copilot to automatically generate natural language explanations of changes made to DLP policies after each update within Microsoft Purview. This feature will analyze policy version deltas (pre-update vs. post-update) and produce a structured, human-readable summary that clearly explains: What changed Where the change occurred (rule, condition, action, location, etc.) The impact of the change The potential enforcement implications The goal is to eliminate manual policy diff analysis, reduce configuration ambiguity, and improve governance transparency for compliance and security administrators.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Apply default SharePoint library labels to data at rest

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:15:47 Z

Enables auto‑labeling of existing SharePoint files to match the default sensitivity label configured on their document library. This helps organizations close labeling gaps for data at rest and ensure consistent, secure‑by‑default protection across SharePoint libraries—without relying on manual user labeling.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365: Companion apps - Copilot prompts in the Files app now available for Copilot Chat users

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:38 Z

The Files companion app, part of the Microsoft 365 companion apps suite on the Windows taskbar, now surfaces AI-powered Copilot file prompts for Copilot Chat users. Previously available only to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensees, this update extends contextual file prompts to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users, enabling them to discover and interact with relevant files through intelligent suggestions. Users can find their most relevant files faster and take action on them directly from the Files app.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention– Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Mac devices

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on Mac devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: AI Interpreter on Teams Phone Devices

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:28 Z

This item is cancelled as a duplicate of 553594. We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause. With AI Interpreter, Teams Phone Devices provide real‑time language interpretation directly within the call experience. Users can participate naturally in multilingual conversations while the device interprets spoken audio, reducing language barriers and supporting clearer communication in everyday calling scenarios.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:00:58 Z

Easily summarize your email with Copilot chat in a single click. This will be available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who have pinning enabled. This change is coming to both Classic and new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac and Outlook Mobile. Summaries of email attachments in Copilot chat will also be available in new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac and Outlook Mobile. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Improved copy and paste support for @mentions and shared contacts

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:00:47 Z

Microsoft Teams preserves @mentions and shared contacts when you copy and paste messages in chats and channels. Instead of defaulting to plain text, Teams intelligently displays an @mention, shared contact, or plain text based on where the content is pasted, reducing manual rework.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – File Testing Against Sensitive Information Classifiers

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

A new feature will be introduced on the main Classification page, allowing users to test files against all available classifiers to identify the presence of sensitive information. Users will have the option to select a single classifier or run tests across all classifiers. This capability is designed to help users identify sensitive content within files and troubleshoot classification issues more efficiently.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:15:55 Z

When composing an email on your mobile device, Outlook can recommend or automatically apply an appropriate sensitivity label if your organization’s automatic or recommended labeling policies are enabled by admins and the message contains sensitive information. For recommended labels, you’ll see a prompt to review and apply the suggested label, and automatic labels will be applied without needing any action from you.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Add support for Recommended Labels in Outlook mobile

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:15:55 Z

Microsoft Teams: Consecutive interpretation in Interpreter

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:15:26 Z

Consecutive interpretation enables turn-based interpretation for everyone in the meeting. Interpretation happens after each speaker finishes talking, creating a turn-based flow that supports interactive discussions across two languages.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone Device user multi-line

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Teams Phone user multi‑line gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support on Teams Phone Android devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities—all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:31:01 Z

Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document in PowerPoint

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:15:15 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher Output Formats

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:10 Z

The Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot empowers users to create rich, detailed reports on any topic they choose whether from work or web content. We are introducing new output formats in the Researcher Agent that will allow users to export and consume generated reports in their preferred formats. Users will be able to export their Researcher reports to PowerPoint, PDF, Infographic or an Audio Overview. We are also updating the UX for previously existing output formats- Word and Pages.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is now available in GCC-Moderate

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

We’re excited to announce that Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is now available in the GCC-Moderate (GCC-M) environment! Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 provides a secure, compliant, and scalable platform for ingesting organizational data into Microsoft 365. With this release, government cloud customers can now leverage the same powerful data ingestion capabilities previously available only in commercial environments.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage private content in M365 Copilot

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:26 Z

Engage content from private communities and events will be used as grounding source for M365 Copilot. When a user queries in M365 Copilot, they will only be able to see content they are privileged to access.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on Adobe Experience Manager when creating presentations

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Action Segments

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Email messages

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

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. Updated February 9, 2026: GA rollout for this item is starting in late February. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Scanner data export for custom reporting

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

Learn about the state of your scanned repositories and create custom reports with the information protection scanner. Labeling, classification and protection actions on scanned files are stored in SQL tables that form a foundation to feed into custom reports.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:38 Z

The Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot expedites answers for the most common workplace policy-related questions and takes action on key HR and IT related tasks, connecting employees to authorized knowledge bases and HR/IT systems of record for faster resolution time and a streamlined employee experience.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:45:21 Z

App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: 'Deployed to all users', 'Deployed to specific users and groups', or 'Deployed to no users'. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant.
GA date: July CY2024

Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:15:19 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: April CY2024

Outlook: Copilot provides coaching feedback in chat as you draft, edit and format emails

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:38 Z

Copilot now provides coaching feedback on email drafts via chat and can apply suggestions directly to your message in Outlook. Users have the option to choose which suggestions are applied, and Copilot updates your email in place.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Shareable links now show as the document name in meeting descriptions

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:38 Z

In Outlook for Android, shareable links now automatically show as the document name in meeting descriptions. Additionally, users can manage the link permissions on the shareable links directly from the meeting description, ensuring a more secure file sharing process.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Multiple Intune Accounts for Outlook on iOS

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:38 Z

Multiple MAM (Mobile Application Management) Intune Accounts will now be supported in Outlook for iOS. Only one MDM (mobile device management) account will be supported at a time per device.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/dlp-exchange-conditions-and-actions#recipients
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Add Breakout Room Participants in Bulk Using CSV

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

Support for bulk breakout room participant assignment using a CSV file, helping organizers save time when setting up breakout rooms.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams mobile

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

Manage call queues and engage with customers wherever work takes you. The Queues app on Teams mobile enables on the go workers to stay connected and responsive when handling customer calls. Calling representatives and supervisor leads can view assigned queues, opt in or out of a queue's call routing, and review their call history—all from their mobile device. Supervisor leads can also bulk manage queue participation for their teams. With seamless mobile access, the Queues app helps teams respond faster, handle calls more smoothly, and deliver a better customer experience anytime, anywhere.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced cross-platform join via SIP for Teams Rooms on Android

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

Enable Teams Rooms on Android to join third-party meetings via SIP, delivering seamless cross-platform interoperability. This capability ensures users can connect to external meeting services directly from Teams Rooms, maintaining a consistent and reliable meeting experience across diverse environments. Available on Teams Rooms Pro license.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Copilot New Tab Page

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:15:18 Z

Search, chat, and explore the web from one search box with Copilot-suggested actions and curated work content to help your users get things done faster on the new, refreshed Copilot New Tab Page. Users can also view personalized news and activities.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Building level insights on the Pro Management portal recommended actions page

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:57 Z

IT gets new building level insights on the recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This feature intelligently identifies buildings with high Teams Rooms utilization to help IT prioritize upgrades of bring your own device (BYOD) meeting spaces and ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences throughout their office buildings. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro or Shared Space license.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams: Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Support for Teams town halls

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Microsoft Teams will soon support Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) streaming in Teams town halls. SRT is a network protocol designed to deliver high-quality, low-latency video across the public internet.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:15:46 Z

Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams calling.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Project Manager Agent in M365 Copilot

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web Link as a Reference in Copilot Notebooks

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:45:29 Z

Add web links as references in your Copilot Notebooks.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Copilot chat summary

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

Missed many messages? Copilot will automatically generate a summary of the new messages in a chat conversation, so you can catch up quickly without reading every message.
GA date: October CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access audio overviews from the top of your Word document

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

Ask Copilot to generate an audio overview of your document from the Summary tab in the document snapshot. We have updated the status to accurately reflect the current state of the feature.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

PowerPoint: Create and Edit images with the model of your choice

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

You can now choose your preferred image model including OpenAI’s GPT Image, Flux, or Auto for smart, dynamic selection when creating or editing images with Copilot in PowerPoint, or when generating a new presentation or page.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: "All"- licensed user page Copilot dashboard

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:15:31 Z

The Copilot Dashboard adoption landing page will be updated to show a unified view of Copilot adoption across the organization. Instead of the default page showing only on Microsoft 365 Copilot (licensed) usage, the page will include all Copilot user adoption, covering both M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat usage that does not require a license. A License filter will allow users to switch between All, M365 Copilot (licensed), and Copilot Chat (unlicensed) views.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available without saving transcript

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:15:06 Z

Intelligent recap can now be generated without retaining a transcript after the meeting. Meeting organizers can choose this setting from the meeting options before the meeting, or organizers and eligible participants can enable it during the meeting. After the meeting, the AI Summary will be available, but other elements of the recap may not be available (Chapters, Topics, Mentions, Audio recap).
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Digital signage support for Teams panels

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:00:36 Z

Digital signage can now be displayed on idle Teams panel devices, similar to digital signage support for Microsoft Teams Rooms front of room displays. Signage source and settings can be configured in the Pro Management portal. Available with Teams Rooms Pro or Shared space-licensed spaces.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] IT Admins will be able to enable Anthropic models by specific users and groups in the tenant

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

This feature introduces admin controls for managing Anthropic as a model provider for specific users and groups in the tenant.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Dynamic Topics

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Enhancing comment reporting by using Copilot to develop customer-specific comment topics and enhance the quality of existing comment-to-topic assignment.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

We’ve simplified the app bar to help you focus on what matters. Apps are easier to scan in a cleaner View more apps list, the overflow menu is less cluttered, and you can choose to show or hide the app bar to create more space for your work.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher Agent for GCC

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

Researcher will be available for Microsoft 365 business and enterprise users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on license. Researcher is an advanced deep reasoning agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot designed to tackle complex, multi-step tasks by acting as a deep research assistant.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Improved keyboard navigation and default line numbers in code blocks

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Navigate code blocks more easily with improved keyboard controls and default line numbers. Set code language quickly and reference specific lines for improved collaboration and workflow.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Copilot configuration insights in the Copilot Dashboard Readiness page

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:53 Z

The Copilot Dashboard’s updated Readiness page provides IT leaders with tailored Copilot configuration recommendations. Th suggested settings are meant to streamline deployment, enhance user experience, and help users get most out of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat and agents. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: External Domains Anomalies Report

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

This new report helps admins proactively spot unusual or risky interactions with external organizations. By analyzing communication trends and detecting sudden spikes, new domains, or abnormal engagement patterns, it provides early visibility into potential data-sharing or security risks. As external collaboration grows, this report delivers actionable insights to safeguard your tenant while supporting productive cross-organization work.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Satisfaction Rate Metric for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Dashboard

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:15:34 Z

Track user sentiment of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Understand how users perceive Copilot value by analyzing the breakdown of thumbs up and thumbs down ratings after Copilot interactions. See trends over time and breakdowns by group.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: share file in chat with external users

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Contextual nudges on address bar offering help summarizing webpages.

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce an easy way for users to get summaries of their open page from the address bar using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This feature seeks to help users more easily understand relevant content and save time.
GA date: October CY2026
Preview date: September CY2026

OneDrive: Discover Copilot actions in File Preview

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:28 Z

See what Copilot can do the moment you preview a file in OneDrive or SharePoint. Ready-to-use prompts appear alongside the Copilot button, helping you summarize documents, generate FAQs, and more — all without writing a single prompt.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: View, edit & share Copilot Pages with Outlook for Android

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:28 Z

Users can now view, edit and share Copilot Pages with Outlook for Android, making it easier to continue working with Copilot and colleagues while on the go.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced media quality for Direct Guest Join

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:28 Z

You’ll notice media quality improvements including support for up to 16 participant videos (4×4 grid) and simulcast streaming when using Direct Guest Join. These updates make cross platform meetings more immersive and reliable when joining Teams meetings from Zoom, Google Meet, or Cisco devices.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Exclude modern groups / include dynamic security groups support for sensitivity label policies

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:00:10 Z

To provide more flexibility, admins can now exclude modern Microsoft 365 groups and scope sensitivity label policies to dynamic and non-mail enabled security groups—expanding policy targeting beyond individual users and mail enabled groups.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Feature conversations to all network members

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:17 Z

The featured conversation feature in public Viva Engage communities will include the option to feature a conversation to all network members or only to community members.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced issue detection in Teams Rooms on Windows and auto-remediation with Teams Rooms Pro Management.

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Teams Rooms on Windows proactively monitors room audio, video, and display signals to detect issues in meeting spaces. Teams Rooms Pro Management automatically remediates common issues that can be resolved through software, configuration changes, or device resets during nightly maintenance. This ensures users have reliable, ready-to-use meeting rooms, while IT admins benefit from reduced manual troubleshooting and increased uptime. Available for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot processing content with sensitivity labels supports all storage locations

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:15:26 Z

The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policy to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing sensitive files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will now apply regardless of file storage location.
GA date: April CY2026

Built‑in AI Interpreter for Calls on Teams Phone Devices

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

With AI Interpreter, Teams Phone Devices provide real‑time language interpretation directly within the call experience. Users can participate naturally in multilingual conversations while the device interprets spoken audio, reducing language barriers and supporting clearer communication in everyday calling scenarios.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

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) .
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft 365: Modernized Access Denied Web Experience

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

We’re introducing a visual refresh of the Access Denied web experience across Microsoft 365, where users can request access to files, sites, and meeting recordings. This update features a modern Fluent design with new illustrations, animations, and clearer messaging to help users quickly gain confidence and seamlessly continue their collaboration.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Windows console

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:09 Z

With Teams Rooms on Windows consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice in Teams fast and easy. Your profile enables features like voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in a meeting room and transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and insights from Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you haven't enrolled, you’ll get an in-product prompt to opt-in and enroll your voice profile simply by speaking in a meeting. Admins can enable or disable this feature for their organization.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage Community feed improvements

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:15:41 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:15:34 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365: PAYGO consumption-based meter for your extra SharePoint storage needs

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Automatically update your work location via your organization's Wi-Fi

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict access action support for sematic models and lakehouses in Fabric

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:30:19 Z

Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types matches your semantic models or lakehouses. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses.
GA date: October CY2026
Preview date: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new personal data examination

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:15:06 Z

Data Security Investigations (DSI) is introducing a new examination focus area concentrated on identifying personal data. The personal data examination will identify and extract various types of personal data from the selected items including but not limited to, names, addresses, bank account numbers, and more. This addition works alongside DSI’s AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data.
GA date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Entra B2B integration for external sharing in OneDrive & SharePoint

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:15:06 Z

OneDrive and SharePoint will use Microsoft Entra B2B as the invitation and authentication method for external users, replacing the legacy SharePoint One Time Passcode (SPO OTP) experience. External sharing will automatically create B2B guest accounts in your directory, delivering consistent external collaboration across Microsoft 365, stronger guest identity management, and modern security aligned with Microsoft Entra standards.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Federated Copilot Connectors

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:15:06 Z

Microsoft is announcing the General Availability (GA) of federated Copilot connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Federated Copilot connectors enable users to securely connect Copilot to popular third‑party sources and retrieve data in real time using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). These connectors do not store or index customer data in Microsoft services; access occurs in real time using the user’s identity, while administrators retain full governance and control through the Microsoft 365 admin center. With GA, federated Copilot connectors will be supported in Researcher agent, Microsoft 365 Chat, and Agent Mode in Excel, enabling users to bring external data directly into their workflows.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Honor Windows Do not disturb setting

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:48 Z

Microsoft Teams integrates with the Do not disturb setting in Windows to help reduce interruptions. Teams notifications are paused when Do not disturb is turned on, and resume after it is turned off.
GA date: May CY2026

SharePoint: Updates to SharePoint home sites

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

SharePoint home sites are getting the following new updates - A resources web part, a new UX to customize the SharePoint app (Viva Connections) experience for Teams desktop and mobile and ability to set up a new home site in the SharePoint admin center. Additionally, the Announcements web part and a new layout for News web part will be available in all sites.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent Updates

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:57 Z

Updates include dynamic, channel‑aware welcome messages, greater flexibility in channel creation (with or without an agent), expanded agent permissions for member management, scheduling enhancements, and overall quality improvements.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management- Azure PST Import

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:24 Z

Azure PST Import is a migration method that enables PST files stored in Azure Blob Storage to be imported directly into Exchange Online mailboxes. It follows the standard two‑step Exchange Migration Service pattern: an initial analysis phase to validate and assess PST data, followed by execution of the actual migration. The process also involves creating a migration endpoint, running an analysis-only migration batch, using the analysis results to configure the final batch, and then starting the batch to import PST content into target mailboxes.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:01:00 Z

Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you're refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

We are updating private channels to use a shared mailbox, similar to shared channels, instead of messages being stored in each user's mailbox. With this change, compliance policies set for the team's Microsoft 365 group will apply to private channels messages going forward. In addition, teams will support more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit for the team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Branded Meeting Reactions

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:28 Z

With new branded reactions, organizations can now extend their visual identity directly into meetings. IT admins simply upload custom reaction icons reflecting brand elements or event themes, and these instantly become available for meeting participants. A simple way to create more cohesive, on-brand meeting experiences.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot settings – Optimize view

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:17 Z

The new Copilot settings landing experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center centralizes visibility into key configuration status and helps admins optimize settings for Copilot success using Microsoft‑recommended policies, actions, and guidance—enabling secure and confident Copilot deployment.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: DSPM data risk assessments: item-level investigation & remediation

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Export Copilot metrics in the Copilot Dashboard

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

This enables users to export row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Domain exclusion for web grounding

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

This feature will allow admins to specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection - Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

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.
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): List email attachments in M365 Copilot

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 Backup

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated chat-first design in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:57 Z

We are introducing a refreshed chat-first design in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, bringing a cleaner, more intuitive interface to users. This update includes a modernized design language, streamlined navigation, and other improvements that make it easier and faster for users to start, continue, and manage chats on the mobile app.
GA date: April CY2026

OneNote: Multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks (iPhone)

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:57 Z

Multimodal capture enables users to transcribe audio, take images, and type notes in a single session. Copilot then creates a structured Copilot Page with insights and user-captured content, saved to a user-selected Copilot Notebook. Designed for capturing offline work moments—including in-person conversations, whiteboard sessions, and personal notes. Other endpoints coming soon.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:57 Z

Mind Maps in Copilot Notebooks are interactive visual artifacts that help users understand notebook content through a grounded map of key topics, themes, and relationships. Users can explore the Mind Map, view summaries for individual nodes, and use Notebook chat to get more detail about a node. Available across OneNote and Microsoft 365 Copilot App.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Reduce policy sync status SLA on the Purview UI from 2 hours to 30 mins

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:57 Z

Admin should be able to see the Endpoint DLP policy sync status on the Purview portal within 30 mins.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Agent 365: the control plane for agents

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:15:57 Z

Agent 365 is the control plane for AI agents. It empowers IT and security administrators to observe, govern, and secure agents across Microsoft 365 and connected platforms at scale.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management– Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:15:17 Z

Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Priority content support for Risky AI usage

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:15:26 Z

A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Copilot Connectors in Microsoft 365 Copilot, designed to give organizations a detailed view of how connectors are being used within Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report provides insights into overall connector activity, publisher-level trends, and connector powered response patterns over time, along with detailed user-level connectors adoption data. With these analytics, admins can monitor adoption, identify usage patterns, and optimize Copilot experiences to drive greater value across their organization. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot Connector

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:00:30 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Copilot Pages – View, edit & share in Outlook Mobile

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Continue working with Copilot and colleagues while on the go, with the ability to view, edit and share Pages on mobile.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:30:05 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

SharePoint: Pages - Heading levels for web parts

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:15:49 Z

When authoring pages, this will create the ability to choose heading level for webparts to help define the hierarchy of information on a page.
GA date: April CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Catch Up Improvements on Web

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:13:27 Z

Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.
GA date: January CY2024
Preview date: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Device Health Reporting Dashboard

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

This dashboard will allow admins to view the device health across all their devices to ensure the system is healthy and ready to receive policy updates and quickly identify devices that are not ready.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - DLM Retention support Microsoft Teams call logs

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

Microsoft Teams stores call logs in several persistent locations, such as CDR logs. Currently, these logs are retained indefinitely. However, regulatory requirements in various countries specify maximum retention periods for calling-related logs. This discrepancy creates a compliance gap, as the existing retention practices may not meet regulatory obligations. Additionally, tenant administrators may prefer to retain data for longer periods to improve the user experience. Therefore, this solution would help organizations ensure that Microsoft Teams remains compliant with regulatory mandates while also supporting evolving product features and business needs.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create interactive visuals in Copilot Pages

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

Create an interactive report, visualization, or dashboard using Copilot Pages. Copilot uses web data and the latest LLM models and can also ground responses in your Work data.
GA date: April CY2026

Planner: Microsoft Planner tab support for shared and private channels in Microsoft Teams

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

Now you can add Microsoft Planner as a tab in shared and private channels in Microsoft Teams, which allows to create and manage tasks directly within the channel.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Improved handling of disallowed and failed email reactions

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

Emails with reactions disallowed will now see the Reactions button grayed out correctly. Additionally, when any attempt to react fails, the local update will no longer remain onscreen and be properly undone.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/outlook/manage/manage-outlook-reactions?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: File Creation/Modification conditions in DLP for Sharepoint/OneDrive and AutoLabelling

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:39 Z

File Creation and File Modification conditions in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive and AutoLabelling will give organizations more precise control over DLP policy definition. These conditions allow admins to configure policies based on when the files were created or last modified, enabling policies that target newly created documents, recently edited files, or older content that may require stricter governance. With these new date-based predicates, Purview DLP delivers stronger lifecycle-aware protection, improved policy accuracy, and greater flexibility in securing data across SPOD.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Run SMB admin tasks faster with Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:17 Z

SMB Admins can use Microsoft 365 Admin Agent in Microsoft Teams to complete common admin tasks and get guidance on critical setup actions. Admin Agent can add users and assign licenses on behalf of the admin, as well as provide guidance on key SMB related topics such as organisation setup, security settings, and password resets—without leaving the Teams interface.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Minimized meeting window enhancements

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:15:18 Z

We're improving the experience when the active meeting window is minimized. Users can now raise their hand and send reactions without restoring the full meeting window. They can also choose between two minimized views: an expanded view that shows up to 4 participant videos, or a compact view that does not display other participants' video.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enable customers to book appointments from a live chat widget on your website

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

The Microsoft Teams live chat widget lets customers engage in one to one conversations with your business directly from your website, and now also enables appointment scheduling.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for GCC-H and DoD environments

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:15:36 Z

Shared display mode in Teams is now available in government CCC-H and DoD environments, enabling more seamless and private meeting hosting from your PC. Additionally, peripheral detection for bring-your-own-device spaces is available for inventory management and reporting through the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365: Drawn electronic signatures with eSignature for Microsoft 365

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:31:01 Z

Signers will be able to add their electronic signature to PDFs using a stylus, touch, or mouse, in addition to the existing typed signature option.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Clarify choices surrounding third-party cookie settings

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:00:26 Z

Language under Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies will be clarified to better describe the choices users have in managing third-party cookies.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Agent is now available in preview

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

The Data Security Posture Agent is designed to expand the capacity of data security admins as they proactively work to stay on top of a dynamic data and risk landscape within their organization. Its primary job is to help discover sensitive data across your data estate. This agent is designed to analyze and search documents, emails, and messages that match the natural-language discovery intent requested by the user and assess associated risks. By moving beyond traditional keyword and information-type analysis and harnessing the power of LLMs, this agent enables organizations to identify risks based on the actual purpose and context of the content and take appropriate action.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams frontline BYOD onboarding wizard

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration - Continuous employee engagement for leaders and managers with workplace metrics

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

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.
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly edit an image in PowerPoint

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Microsoft Viva: Flexible targeting of Storyline Announcements

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Multi-select capability for calendar categories

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Agents usage report

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Frontier and Microsoft agent user request approval flow in Microsoft 365 admin center

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage reports - Message consumption for Pay-as-you-go experiences in Copilot Chat.

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

A new report to help IT admins manage costs for billed messages that are Pay-as-you-go enabled for Copilot Chat. Reporting includes drill down of billed messages per user, per billing policy, per agent-level and agent-user level pair. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2026
Preview date: May CY2025

SharePoint: Content Security Policy Control in Tenant Administration

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

SharePoint Online Tenant Administrators can now allow script sources for modern pages in SharePoint sites. This is particularly useful in scenarios where modern pages have custom code that load scripts (e.g. TypeScript code) from external sources like CDN. SharePoint will now report to administrators where are loaded from sources that have not been allowed giving administrators a way to identify those sources and take actions. Tenant Administrators can also enforce browsers to only load scripts from allowed sources. This behavior can be enabled using SharePoint Online Management Shell.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Rewrite by Copilot in Edge is being upgraded to include enterprise data protection compliance standards

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:30:37 Z

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. Updated March 20, 2026: We have paused release of this feature temporarily and will announce new release timelines soon. We apologize for any inconvenience.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/edge
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create PowerPoint presentations from Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:00:36 Z

Copilot Notebooks enables users to generate PowerPoint presentations directly from the content and references collected in a notebook. Using the notebook’s curated context, Copilot creates a structured, editable slide deck that users can open and refine in PowerPoint, helping turn research, notes, and insights into shareable presentations more quickly.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Word documents from Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:00:36 Z

Copilot Notebooks allows users to generate Word documents using the content and references gathered in a notebook. Copilot drafts a structured document grounded in the notebook’s context, which can be opened and edited in Word, helping users move from ideas and source material to a ready‑to‑use document with fewer manual steps.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management - Power Automate integration with records management

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:00:10 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Standardized preview experience for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel files now open in a standardized preview in Teams on Android and iOS, delivering faster performance, improved reliability, and a more consistent viewing experience.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Logged-in user details on the Purview device onboarding page

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

This update introduces logged-in user details (user email) on the device onboarding page for Windows devices bringing it in line with the experience for MacOS devices. Admins can now see which user is currently signed in on a device, making It faster to confirm ownership and troubleshoot issues.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Endpoint DLP Device Status API

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Unmanaged cloud app discovery and protection with Microsoft Purview and Palo Alto Prisma Access

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

Microsoft Purview network data security now integrates with Palo Alto Prisma Access, extending discovery and protection to network traffic. With this integration, new and existing Palo Alto Prisma Access customers can configure Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention policies to discover and protect sensitive data shared with unmanaged cloud apps via HTTP/HTTPS, using the same classifiers, sensitive information types, and sensitivity labels used in other Purview policies. This integration further enriches Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM), enables data security & compliance for AI interactions, and more.
GA date: October CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Outlook: Font Improvements in Outlook for Android

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

Now when composing emails, users can change the font color and add highlight color to their text. Additionally, users will now have easy access to recently used fonts in the font list.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Modernized content composition experience in Engage

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

The new content composition experience makes it easier and faster to share in Viva Engage with a cleaner, more intuitive publishing experience. It brings clearer layout, better accessibility, and smarter organization of tools—so you can focus on creating great posts without extra clicks or clutter.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Multiselect in the New Outlook and Teams calendars

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:43 Z

You can now select multiple appointments and meetings in the new Outlook for Windows and Teams calendars. Use Ctrl+click to select individual items, or Shift+click to quickly select a range events. Once selected, you can take common actions across all selected items. Click anywhere outside the selection to clear it. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Infinite Scroll Chat History

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:15:55 Z

Infinite scroll enables users to continuously browse older chat sessions by automatically loading additional conversations as they scroll. This creates a smoother, more modern chat history experience
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Meeting recordings now automatically inherit the meeting’s sensitivity label. When label inheritance is enabled in sensitivity label policies, a labeled meeting applies the same label to its MP4 recording, ensuring access controls, data handling rules, and Copilot or agent responses based on transcripts consistently respect the meeting’s sensitivity end to end.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label inheritance for Loop meeting notes

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Loop meeting notes now automatically inherit your meeting’s sensitivity label. When admins enable label inheritance in the sensitivity label policy, any labeled meeting applies the same label to its Loop meeting notes, ensuring protections like encryption, access controls, and data handling rules carry forward consistently. This also ensures that Copilot and agent responses based on Loop meeting notes accurately reflect the meeting’s sensitivity, keeping confidential content protected end to end.
GA date: May CY2026

SharePoint: Admin policy for expiring "People in your organization" links

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Administrators can now set organization-wide policies to automatically expire "People in your organization" sharing links after a specified period. This helps organizations maintain tighter control over internal content sharing by ensuring links don't remain active indefinitely. Configure expiration timeframes that align with your organization's data governance requirements—whether that's 30 days, 90 days, or a custom period.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image Upload in Copilot Chat for Government Cloud

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

The image upload feature in Microsoft 365 Copilot allows users to upload images and seek insights from Copilot based on those images. We are bringing this capability to Government Cloud environments, delivering parity with existing Copilot experiences while ensuring the functionality operates within applicable Government Cloud boundaries.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scatter image effect in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

Use scatter image effect directly in Copilot Chat and the create experience to further customize your visual artifacts generated with Copilot.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Enforce DLP protection upon new content before its saved

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Automatically display auto-mapped calendars

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:30:32 Z

Users will be able to automatically see their auto-mapped calendars when toggling from classic Outlook to the new. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Sensitivity label support in Engage

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:15:26 Z

Organizations can now manually apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Allowing admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage communities. End users in Engage will be able to then manually apply labels to communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Security Update Alerts in the Edge management service

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:15:26 Z

Administrators can choose a severity threshold and receive alerts when a new Edge update includes security fixes that meet or exceed that level, including zero day fixes. This helps organizations quickly identify updates that may require attention, while avoiding unnecessary notifications for routine releases.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Data Security Triage Agent summaries and categorizations for DLP alerts will be made available in DLP Alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:45:46 Z

Data Security Triage Agent summaries and categorizations for DLP alerts will be made available in DLP Alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

OneDrive: Set a custom name for the OneDrive sync folder

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:15:06 Z

IT admins can now customize the local OneDrive sync root folder name on users' Windows computers. By default, the folder is named "OneDrive - {organization name}," which can consume valuable path length for deeply nested files and folders. With this new policy, admins can set a shorter, organization-specific folder name — reducing path length issues and giving users a cleaner file system experience.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Recently used emojis sync across devices

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

Recently used emojis and reactions sync across Teams on desktop and mobile, making it easier to express yourself wherever you work.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory - Copilot is now personalized with work data

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:01:00 Z

Copilot now uses M365 Graph data to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: New Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management Experience

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:15:23 Z

At Ignite, Microsoft is introducing a major evolution of Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to help organizations strengthen data security and confidently embrace AI. The new DSPM experience unifies visibility and control across traditional data and AI-driven environments, delivering outcome-based guided workflows that turn insights into actionable steps—so teams can prioritize risks and remediate faster. It brings AI observability, enhanced posture reporting, and intelligent Security Copilot agents to automate tasks like triage and policy management. Plus, Purview now extends coverage beyond Microsoft data with third-party signals from partners like BigID, Cyera, OneTrust, and Varonis, giving security teams a single, streamlined view of sensitive data across clouds and platforms. Together, these innovations make DSPM the central hub for managing data security posture in the era of AI. We are also extending Data Risk Assessments to Fabric and to item-level analysis with new remediation actions like bulk disabling of overshared SharePoint links.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Delete meeting generated content in recap

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

Meeting organizers can now easily delete meeting generated content including recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes through the new delete button in recap page. Shared files in the meeting won't be deleted.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Security Store now available within Purview DLP to browse, purchase, and enable partner integrations

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

Microsoft Security Store is now integrated into the Microsoft Purview DLP experience, giving admins an in‑product way to discover a curated set of integrations that extend Purview capabilities, including data security capabilities for the network. Purchasing and management are completed through Security Store, simplifying how organizations procure partner integrations.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot adoption PBI version update including Power user insights.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:15:06 Z

The updated Copilot adoption Power BI report will come with a streamlined UX and new Power user insights.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Adaptive Scopes for DLP for SharePoint

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:51 Z

Adaptive Scope for SharePoint is a dynamic scoping capability in Microsoft Purview DLP that allows administrators to automatically target DLP policies to the right sites based on attributes such as site URL, site name, or custom site metadata. Unlike static scoping, which requires manually listing sites and maintaining them over time, adaptive scopes continuously evaluate site properties and auto‑include or exclude locations as they evolve. This enables scalable policy deployment, eliminates the 100‑site static policy limit, and delivers granular, and automated targeting.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Azure AI Foundry integration with Microsoft Purview for AI

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

Purview enablement in AI Foundry, allows Foundry admins to activate Microsoft Purview on their subscription. Once enabled, AI interaction data from all apps and agents flows into Purview for centralized compliance, governance, and posture management of AI data.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Report a Suspicious Call in Microsoft Teams

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Microsoft Teams now includes a capability that lets users flag calls they believe are unusual or suspicious. When a call is reported, the signal helps Microsoft strengthen security measures and reduce future unwanted or malicious call activity. This feature empowers users to actively contribute to real-time threat detection, enhancing organizational safety.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Activity in other accounts and organizations

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:15:38 Z

Users can view and respond to activity across multiple tenants without switching accounts. You can triage notifications, reply to chats, and pin tenants to the left rail for quick access.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Simplified controls to manage external collaboration

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

SharePoint: Microsoft designed dark themes for SharePoint Sites

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Onboarding emails for Leaders

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

This feature introduces automated, role-targeted onboarding emails for Leaders to drive discovery of the Copilot Dashboard in Viva insights.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams rooms on Windows

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery - Add Sample to Review Set

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to get a detailed and contextual explanation

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Improvements in call transfer experience on Teams Phone devices

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

New call controls and streamlined transitions enable simple and seamless transfers for Teams Phone users on Android devices.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: AI Workflows in Workflows app

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:00:26 Z

With AI Workflows in the Workflows app, you will have access to custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. AI Workflows enhance productivity by simplifying task execution and helping users stay organized throughout the day. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:15:45 Z

Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery - review set limit increase

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:45:46 Z

Review set limit per case is increased from 20 per case to 100 per case.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Policy sync status for M365 Label publishing policies

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:00:10 Z

Admins can now see the sync status of sensitivity label publishing policies directly in the Purview portal. This provides clear confirmation that label policy changes have been fully applied across Microsoft 365 workloads, reducing guesswork, speeding troubleshooting, and increasing confidence during large scale label deployments.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Sensitivity label inheritance for Teams meeting artifacts

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:00:10 Z

Teams meeting artifacts, including recordings, transcripts, and Loop notes, can now be configured to automatically inherit the sensitivity label from the meeting. This ensures content generated during meetings is consistently protected without requiring manual labeling, reducing risk and simplifying protection at scale.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent Summaries in Copilot Dashboard

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:00:10 Z

Use intelligent summaries in Copilot Dashboard to quickly surface what’s working and where targeted attention can accelerate Copilot adoption. Intelligent summaries highlight key adoption trends to focus on areas of success. Suggested prompts enable deeper exploration of underlying trends and drivers.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Centralized notification settings for channels

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

Centralized notification settings streamline channel notification setup and management. Available in Teams settings, users have a single place to review and adjust notifications for all visible channels, instead of managing each individually.
GA date: June CY2026

Outlook: Improved results when filtering your message list

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

When you apply a filter in the message list, Outlook for iOS now helps you search for all matching messages—even older ones that aren’t currently synced. If more results may be available, you can tap to run a search with the filter already applied.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Voice tethering

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

The voice tethering feature builds on the recent introduction of Sign Language Mode. It ensures that when an interpreter voices for a D/HH signer, captions and transcripts attribute the spoken content to the signer rather than the interpreter. This provides accurate representation in meetings and makes it clear who is contributing to the conversation. It also improves downstream meeting intelligence such as Copilot so that notes, summaries, action items, and insights are attributed to the correct participant.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery-Tenant level process report

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:00:31 Z

The tenant‑level process report provides eDiscovery administrators and managers with a centralized view of eDiscovery processes running across cases in the tenant—or across the cases they have access to. It surfaces key details such as process type, status, duration, timestamps, and who initiated each process, enabling better operational oversight, faster issue triage, and clearer end‑to‑end visibility into eDiscovery activity.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Business Justification for Copilot License Requests

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:51 Z

When requesting a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, users can now provide a business justification explaining why they need Copilot. This context is shown to admins during review, helping them make faster, more informed approval decisions and supporting governance and audit needs.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Save an Event as a Draft on iOS

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:10 Z

We're introducing the ability to save meeting invites as drafts on mobile. This feature allows users to begin composing a meeting and return to it later without sending the invite immediately—helping them stay organized and flexible when scheduling. Updated February 13, 2026: This item is still rolling and has not completed yet. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-New Microsoft Fabric lakehouse risk indicators

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric lakehouses (in addition to Power BI which is supported today) by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Fabric lakehouses. 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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Alert Classification Property for DLP Alerts on Purview Portal

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:15:48 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Adding contextual nudges to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:28 Z

Edge for Business will soon help users quickly take contextual action on their open pages using contextual nudges attached to the Copilot icon in the toolbar
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-User based alert aggregation

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:15:49 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list agent

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:35 Z

Enables effortless list creation for Copilot users through prompts, with intelligent schema generation and setup. This agent helps teams to quickly transform structured information and Copilot responses to Microsoft Lists.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Real-time voice interactions in a podcast in Word

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

Interact in real time with podcasts created by Copilot in Word. Today, audio summaries help you absorb content on the go, but they’re one-way—listeners can’t clarify or explore without stopping. With this feature, you can ask questions with your voice while listening and get answers instantly, staying in the audio experience and understanding content faster.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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. Updated January 29, 2026: Due to a blocker we have paused rollout until March for this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.146 - Desktop Visual Search

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention -- Always-on diagnostics for Windows Endpoints (Phase 2)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Admins can retrieve diagnostic 'Always-on diagnostic' traces directly from Windows endpoints and selectively upload them to Microsoft through the Purview Portal at the time of an investigation request such as submitting a support ticket, without disrupting end users or impacting their productivity. This eliminates the need for user coordination while maintaining seamless troubleshooting capabilities
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Outlook: Customizable Oversharing dialog for DLP in New Outlook

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

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
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:00:02 Z

Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Say "Hey Copilot" to activate voice conversations with the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

With the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows, say “Hey Copilot” to activate real-time voice conversations with Copilot. The wake word keeps you in flow, helping you draft content, analyze data, and get critical insights without having to navigate to a separate app or window. Built for enterprise, it respects your organization’s compliance and privacy settings, activating only when called.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: M365 Copilot - Billing and usage - Usage insights

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

As you enable M365 Copilot Chat pay-as-you-go billing, AI administrators can view usage insights to inform agent management decisions. This feature displays the cost and number of messages in total and per agent. Cost and usage details can be filtered by billing policy and date range.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Exchange: Exchange Online Moderation approval requests via Actionable Messages

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:51 Z

Ensure via optional IT admin policy that new shared Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Teams enabled Microsoft 365 Group.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations

Wed, 24 May 2023 23:12:48 Z

All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Add support of hyperlinks in warn & block toast messages for Edge browser

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:48 Z

With this feature, data officers can now complete their coverage story by now embedding hyperlinks within toast messages for the Edge browser. When this rule is triggered, the end user will see a toast with a customized title and message with a hyperlink. This feature is useful when organizations need to direct users to a specific resource or a repository for more specific instruction (e.g. internal policy SharePoint site).
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enrich Defender alerts Graph API with DLP event data

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:48 Z

Enhance current API infrastructure to provide easy and simple way for customers to export data to integrate with SIEM tools, create automated workflows and generate customizable reports. Today alert data is present in Graph API and DLP rule match event details are present in Management API. This work enriches the graph API with DLP event data to make correlation and integration easy for customers.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter quality and support for Traditional Chinese

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Interpreter now delivers more accurate real-time interpretation, with improved recognition of people’s names and common industry terms. It also supports your organization’s Custom Dictionary from the Microsoft 365 admin center, so tenant-specific terms can be translated more consistently across meetings. Traditional Chinese is also now supported.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – File Quarantine Action in DLP for SharePoint/OneDrive

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

File Quarantine action in Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint and OneDrive, enables stronger, immediate protection for sensitive data. When a DLP policy is triggered, the File Quarantine action automatically moves the file to a restricted, admin‑controlled & defined quarantine location—instantly removing access for all users while preserving the file for review and investigation. This capability helps organizations contain data‑exposure risks, prevents further sharing or misuse, and delivers a powerful new layer of enforcement.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars on Teams Rooms on Windows

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

When a Teams Rooms on Windows acts as an organizer, co-organizer or presenter in a structured meeting or webinar, you have access to the private chat for event management known as the Event Group. You can also switch to a separate chat with attendees enabling smooth event experiences for all. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Image viewer improvements enable scrolling and jumping to original message

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

Lightbox enhancements let users scroll through all previously shared images in a conversation, provide a clearer visual focus on the image being viewed, and add a header option that jumps directly to the original message where the image was posted.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Deep citations in Copilot

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:15:48 Z

Deep citations let users quickly verify Copilot's results by linking directly to the relevant part of the reference, boosting trust. We're starting with Word and PPT files, then adding Meetings, Web, and PDF references.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Windows 365: Frontline in Shared mode availability for Switzerland North, Switzerland West, Norway East, Norway East, Norway West, UAE central, UAE north

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Windows 365 Frontline in Shared mode availability for Switzerland West, Norway West, UAE central
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Call history Admin control

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

Teams admins can now control whether Teams meetings and calls appear in users’ iPhone call logs.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat Tools Control

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

Tools acts as a lightweight entry point into high-value, task-specific Copilot features and capabilities directly from the prompt box. By selecting Tools, users get a menu where they can easily discover and trigger the right Copilot feature or capability for their current task, while also providing consistent interactions across tools.
GA date: September CY2025

Windows 365: Frontline in Shared mode availability for Germany West Central, Korea Central, Korea South

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:15:28 Z

Windows 365 Frontline in Shared Mode is expanding to Korea Central, helping frontline workers in these regions to securely share Cloud PCs across shifts.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings and webinars

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:15:13 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel for GCC

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:13 Z

Agent Mode lets you build and edit workbooks side by side with Copilot. When you're updating budgets, creating financial models, or analyzing data, Agent Mode uses Excel's most powerful tools like tables, charts, PivotTables, and formulas to help you get the job done.
GA date: October CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [Search UX] Custom filter support for data sources on Copilot Search

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

1. Allow IT admins to customize filters at a data source level. 2. IT admins can add/delete a filter at data source level.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Coda Docs and Wikis with Copilot Connectors

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Coda with Copilot connectors to query collaborative documents and wikis.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru for Internal Knowledge and Insights

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Guru with Copilot connectors to retrieve internal knowledge and team insights.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] No-Code Publishing for Azure AI Foundry Agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Developers can now publish Azure AI Foundry Agents directly to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store with a simplified, no-code experience.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Monday.com to track work and team progress with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Asana to manage projects and tasks with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with GitLab Issues (Cloud and Server) to track engineering tasks and bugs with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:00:30 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:00:30 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent metadata in inventory export

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

Agent metadata export in Microsoft 365 admin center includes expanded metadata fields, covering Capabilities, Data Sources, Actions, Created In, and Created By. Enables enhanced visibility for auditing, governance, and lifecycle tracking. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Copilot Studio agent report in Insights enhanced with autonomous agents.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Viva Insights) - 1. Inclusion of agents with "generative" orchestration 2. Autonomous agent adoption and impact (maker led time and cost saving).
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easier access to Researcher in Microsoft Word

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

The Researcher agent now has easier entry points on the Word canvas —making it faster to go from idea to polished research report without breaking your flow.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Embedded Knowledge capability support for declarative agents.

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

Developers and makers can embed knowledge (pdf, doc/docx, ppt) into their declarative agents built with Teams Toolkit for additional grounding capabilities.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – analyze files tied to audit log activities

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Speed up analysis of exfiltrated content by launching Data Security Investigations (DSI) from Unified Audit Log activity. In DSI, build your audit log query by specifying criteria such as time range, activities, users, and keywords. DSI then automatically pulls the associated files into the investigation (for example, UserA downloaded a file on 3/1/2026).
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – analyze files tied to endpoint DLP alerts

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

Speed up analysis of exfiltrated content by launching Data Security Investigations (DSI) from endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alerts. In DSI, define your endpoint DLP query (for example, time range, users, and endpoints). DSI then automatically gathers the related files that triggered the alerts for review (for example, UserA downloaded a file on 3/1/2026).
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – role-based access simplification

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

We are simplifying Data Security Investigations (DSI) roles following customer feedback and the continued integration with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and Defender XDR. We added the Data Security Investigation Admin role to the Compliance Administrator role group. We added the Data Security Investigation Contributor role to the: Organization Management role group; Data Security Management role group; Insider Risk management role group.
GA date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Plan and Create Pages with AI

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:00:54 Z

This feature allows you to edit new and existing pages with an AI chat pane. Now, with just prompts, you can add webparts, grounding documents, and refine the visuals and text on your page.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Create workflows with slash commands

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:17 Z

Now you can create workflows quickly and easily using slash commands directly from the Teams compose box.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: New sharing panel in meetings - improved content discovery and ease of sharing

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face Enrollment Dashboard for Admins

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by enabling tenants with 1-49 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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:30:19 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Add setting to create or remove profile desktop shortcut for Windows

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:17 Z

A new toggle is added in the profile settings to give users the ability to create or remove the profile desktop shortcut. Available only for Windows devices.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:53 Z

When users insert content in a prompt using 'Add Work Content' under the Plus menu, the content will only appear as a pill in the Input Box UI and will not be repeated as part of the user's prompt. This helps to simplify the Input Box and reserve it for prompt creation.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Agent

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

Excel Agent helps you turn data into clear charts, summaries, and insights using built‑in formulas and logic. It streamlines data preparation, formulas, and visualization so you can stay focused on the story behind the numbers. Use multi‑turn chat to refine your output or open it in Excel for full editing and collaboration. Ideal for financial forecasts, project plans, and decision‑making tools. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): PowerPoint Agent

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

PowerPoint Agent helps you build polished presentations with strong storytelling and visual structure. It streamlines research, formatting, and layout so you can stay focused on your message. Use multi‑turn chat to refine content or open the deck in PowerPoint for full editing and collaboration. Ideal for executive presentations, strategic updates, and market overviews. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Password affiliation service

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:15:48 Z

Password autofill suggestions in Edge are currently based on top-level domain matching, which means the same credentials can be suggested on sites like account.microsoft.com and office.microsoft.com. With this feature, Edge groups related domains together across various desktop and mobile properties called affiliations. When a customer visits a URL, the Edge client will query the affiliations backend to obtain “affiliated groups” for that URL. The process involves sending a hash of the visited URLs to the service, which then returns a list of affiliated URLs and ensures that the relevant credentials will be displayed in the autofill suggestions across affiliated domains. Admins can control access to this feature using the PasswordManagerEnabled policy.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection- New Summary Metrics in Content Explorer for Unscanned Files and Classification History Details

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: July CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar search for email delegates

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:15:06 Z

Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge Agent

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:27 Z

Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Organization chart in the Profile Card for Web and Desktop

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Viva: News AI audio briefing in Connections Mobile

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

This feature provides an AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. It plays the 10 audio clips sequentially to help users catch up on top news in a hands-free manner. This experience will be available in the Viva Connections App in Teams mobile on iOS and android.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery - Company-wide prompt publishing

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:41 Z

Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Loop workspaces for Microsoft 365 GCC

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:39 Z

Loop workspaces and the full Loop app experience are available to Microsoft 365 GCC customers at loop.cloud.microsoft.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - User accessible recycle bin for Loop workspaces

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:30:52 Z

When users delete a Loop workspace, owners can restore it from a recycle bin in Loop.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chose Anthropic models when editing with Copilot in Word

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:00:58 Z

You can choose to select Anthropic models, in addition to OpenAI models, when editing a Word document using Copilot.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft 365 Apps: Cloud Update - Enhanced Rollout Waves

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:00:58 Z

New improvements are coming to the rollout wave functionality for Cloud Update. These enhancements will allow organizations to continue leveraging Microsoft Entra ID groups to set up rollout waves, with increased flexibility to configure more than the current limit of three waves. Additionally, admins will be able to assign custom delays between each wave, streamlining phased deployments and offering greater control over update distribution.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365 Apps: Cloud Update - Simplified Channel Management

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:00:58 Z

Use device selection criteria in Cloud Update to assign profiles using Microsoft Entra ID groups and streamline the onboarding process. Admins can combine channel and profile assignment in a single step, making it easier to move devices between update channels and maintain consistent update management across the organization.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365 Apps: Cloud Update - Descriptive Errors

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:00:58 Z

Use enhanced error reporting in Cloud Update for Microsoft 365 Apps updates to access clear, descriptive error messages that help you easily identify why an update did not complete successfully. Admins can review comprehensive insights across all Cloud Update-managed devices and drill down into individual devices for detailed information. This improved feature expands on the existing upgrade progress insights by grouping issues according to error codes and providing straightforward descriptions. These advancements enable admins to diagnose problems more efficiently, reduce support escalations, and take decisive corrective actions to boost monthly compliance rates.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Cross Tenant Support using Intune MAM

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Edge for Business extends its capability to deliver Intune App Protection Policies via Intune MAM. Organizations are enabled to apply data loss prevention controls to Edge for Business profiles even on devices managed by another tenant. This capability enforces Intune MAM policies—such as clipboard boundaries, watermarking, and protected downloads—within the Edge work profile, ensuring sensitive data remains governed by your tenant. When enabled, downloads initiated in Edge are redirected to OneDrive for Business instead of local storage, and leak controls for screenshots and DevTools activate when data protection settings are applied. This approach secures cross-tenant scenarios like contractors or mergers without requiring additional apps or disrupting the end user experience.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Enhanced AI governance for Glint Copilot

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:00:31 Z

Copilot in Viva Glint will align with Microsoft's enterprise AI governance platform: enabling your IT and compliance teams to use centralized governance tools for access management and unified monitoring and reporting across all AI deployments in your tenant. This reduces governance complexity and audit burden by providing a single control plane for managing AI features across Microsoft 365. This change removes the existing Copilot toggles in the Viva Glint admin UI, making Viva Feature Access Management (VFAM) the single control plane for Copilot enablement.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: Scheduling with Copilot chat in classic Outlook for Windows

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:15:27 Z

Users can now schedule meetings directly from chat or by clicking "Schedule with Copilot" in the UI. 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 is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Outlook: Prepare for meetings with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:28 Z

With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot quickly prepares you for meetings within minutes by bringing real-time insights and summarizing relevant context, tasks, documents, and other resources. You can also chat directly with Copilot to prepare more deeply, to ensure you're ready to go. This feature is already available in the new Outlook for Windows, Web, Mac, and Mobile and is now being adding to classic Outlook for Windows. It is only available for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Outlook: Filter Out Declined Meetings in Outlook Mobile

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Outlook: Hide Declined Meetings in Outlook Mobile

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image effects in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you're using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:15:05 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention– Unmanaged cloud app discovery and protection with Microsoft Purview and the Island Enterprise Browser

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:00:39 Z

Microsoft Purview network data security now integrates with Island, extending protection to Island’s browser-based workflows at the point of user interaction. With this integration, new and existing Island customers can configure Microsoft Purview collection and data loss prevention policies to detect and protect data shared with unmanaged cloud apps through the Island Enterprise Browser, the Island Extension, and browser add ins via HTTP and HTTPS, using the same classifiers, sensitive information types, and sensitivity labels used in other Purview policies. Island provides visibility and control at the presentation layer, including typed and pasted input, file transfers, and extension activity, so data can be inspected before it ever leaves the browser. This integration further enriches Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Insider Risk Management (IRM) risk score, enables data security and compliance for AI interactions, and more.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit with the model of your choice in PowerPoint

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:15:17 Z

When create or edit a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, you can now select which model to use, including both Open AI and Anthropic models. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Credential Scanning in Data Security Posture Agent

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:15:17 Z

We're expanding the Data Security Posture Agent with a new credential scanning capability. Discover exposed credentials and data security risks across scoped locations. Assign scanning tasks to the agent, track progress across stages, and take action on prioritized findings. The agent scans selected data locations, analyzing scoped files to detect credentials, such as Microsoft Entra user credentials, private keys, and API tokens. Each finding includes a risk score, AI-generated insights, confidence score, and credential category so you can review, confirm, and act from a single task board view.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: DSPM data risk assessments: item-level investigation & remediation

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:15:17 Z

Microsoft Purview Data risk assessments now support item-level investigation and remediation of SharePoint data. New insights like sensitivity label and sharing link information help users identify items at risk of oversharing. 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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Account Switching for Native Mac Controls via Dock and Menu Bar

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:00:47 Z

Users will now find controls for switching between the accounts and tenants that they are signed into making it easier to navigate on Mac.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing a new URL click alert in Teams via Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

We are introducing a new URL click alert that proactively notifies security teams when a user clicks on a malicious link in Teams, helping organizations quickly identify risk and respond before further impact occurs.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Outlook: Expand to Full Event Details on iPad

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

When viewing your calendar on iPad, you can now expand an event to a full‑screen view, giving you more space to review information and make edits.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:01:00 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-New quick policies to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric & non-Microsoft 365 data sources

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

We are adding to Insider Risk Management a pre-configured quick policy template to detect data theft from Microsoft Fabric and non-Microsoft 365 data sources like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will enable admins to create scenario-specific policies, with little configurations needed, to get started faster. All scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page > Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk management for agents

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

As AI agents become deeply embedded in enterprise ecosystems, they are evolving beyond simple tools or workflows into a digital workforce. These agents can interpret intent, access and manipulate enterprise data, execute actions and even make real-time decisions. In many ways, they operate like human insiders only with machine-speed data processing capabilities. To govern and protect these agents effectively, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is being expanded to agents, with specific indicators and insider risk score built for agents based on agentic activities. 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. Updated January 30: This feature is still in development with a planned release of April 2026. We apologize for the inconvenience.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: AI audio overview support for pages and additional languages

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

This feature provides additional languages support for AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. Additionally, if the SharePoint Knowledge Agent is available in a site, site pages and news posts will now have the AI audio summary experience.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit Scheduled prompts

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

Enable customers to edit the scheduled prompt schedule
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Outlook: Enhanced Search Experience in Win32

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention-Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:00:43 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business in your open OneDrive and SharePoint documents

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:45:08 Z

Get relevant answers and insights about your open cloud documents in Copilot Chat in Edge.
GA date: April CY2026

OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:30:39 Z

Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:35:31 Z

This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.
GA date: October CY2026
Preview date: July CY2025

Outlook: Draft, edit and format emails conversationally with Copilot in Outlook

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:15:07 Z

In Outlook, Copilot now works side by side with users to draft, refine, and format emails conversationally, powered by the same agentic capabilities available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection– Override manually applied labels and Remove labels with Auto-labeling

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:00:47 Z

New enhancements for SharePoint and OneDrive enable organizations to automatically override manually applied sensitivity labels and remove labels at scale on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. These capabilities help ensure data remains correctly classified as policies, labels, and business requirements evolve—reducing reliance on manual user updates and improving consistency for data at rest across Microsoft 365.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Pay-as-you-go model for Other Generative AI apps indicators

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:00:47 Z

Other AI apps will move to pay-as-you-go model. Microsoft Copilot experiences indicators can still be used for free even without subscription. To continue using Other AI apps indicators, please link an Azure subscription to Microsoft Purview to enable billing. Insider Risk Management indicators transitioning to a pay-as-you-go pricing model: “Entering risky prompt in Other AI apps”. This indicator is present in Policy indicators-> Generative AI apps -> Other AI apps 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. 
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Identify bots joining your Teams meetings

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:43 Z

During Teams meetings, if there is an external 3P bot trying to join the meeting, organizers will be able to see a clear representation of the bots while they wait in the lobby. Organizers will be required to explicitly and separately admit these bots into the meeting, if really required. This approach will ensure that no one inadvertently accepts the external bots into the meeting ensuring that the organizers have full control over the presence of these bots.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: One-time email passcodes for external presenters in Teams events

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

One-time email passcodes provide an easy way for tenant administrators and event organizers to verify anonymous, external presenters invited to their events. Anonymous external presenters will be shown with a "Verified" tag once completing the process. Based on admin settings, the event organizer will also have a set of options available to them that applies to all external presenters, providing the ability to control who is admitted to the meeting or allowing uninvited users with the link to be admitted from the lobby.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat History Landing page: Filtering UI Refresh

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:28 Z

To help you quickly find the conversations that matter, we’re updating the Chat History filtering experience. This refresh makes the interface simpler and makes it easier to clear filters whenever you need to.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Report capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can avail the benefits of end user reporting of Teams Messages
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to Share with Summary for OneDrive files in Windows

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:15:23 Z

We’re bringing the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot directly into your daily file experience in Windows. With this feature, users can summarize files and send the summary within the share dialog. This feature will be available in File Explorer and OneDrive Activity Center.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:15:02 Z

The floating Copilot button is a quick-access button that appears prominently in your OneDrive web interface. It’s your gateway to Copilot-powered actions —right where you need them. Instant Copilot Access: Ask questions about your files, summarize documents, or compare content—all without leaving OneDrive. Contextual Recommendations: The button will suggest helpful actions based on your file selection—like generating a status report from a file you've selected or generating a summary of a new file shared with you. Streamlined Navigation: No more hunting through menus; the Copilot floating button brings the most relevant tools to your fingertips.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Graph APIs for App & Agent Inventory and Details.

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

Microsoft 365 will introduce new Graph API endpoints designed to empower IT administrators and developers with robust programmatic access to app and agent management across Copilot, Teams, Outlook, and other MetaOS hosts. Key Features: • Inventory API: Retrieve a comprehensive inventory of all apps and agents within your tenant, with advanced filtering by type (1P, 3P, LOB, Shared), host (Copilot, Outlook, Teams, Office), last updated date, and more. This enables bulk management, compliance checks, and streamlined governance for large organizations. • Details API: Access detailed metadata for any specific app or agent, including availability, deployment status, supported hosts, creator information, version, sensitivity, categories, and capabilities (such as Graph connectors, knowledge sources, and plugin actions). This supports auditing, lifecycle management, and integration into existing IT workflows. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

SharePoint: Updated Document Library User Experience

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:00:26 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:58 Z

AI citations analytics will help you track the usage of SP documents, news and pages through copilot and AI agents. You will be able to see how often a page or a file is referenced in a copilot response. You can also get insights into SharePoint site content getting referenced in copilot responses aggregated at the site level.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Take Screenshot in Copilot

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:43 Z

Give users a fast, built‑in way to capture screenshots and include them in Copilot prompts, helping them communicate visual context more easily and receive more accurate, actionable assistance.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Generated video drafts include text animations and new layout options

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:43 Z

Users will find updated layouts and text animations on video projects generated with Copilot.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Catch up on conversations in Microsoft Teams mobile

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:15:18 Z

Catch up in Teams mobile provides a unified view of all directed and followed conversations across chats, meeting chats, channels and threads. The mobile-optimized card view supports swipe actions, helping you quickly review and triage lists of important items.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Data Security Triage Agent in IRM Enhancements

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:57 Z

The Data Security Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management is deploying enhancements such as improved user risk and activity explorer pattern summaries to support improved investigation accuracy, context, and decision quality. 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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Outlook: Enriching profile cards with custom, organization-specific properties

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Hide a user's messages in Viva Engage

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

The hide user messages 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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Meetings search using categories added in Outlook

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

This unblocks customers from searching for meetings specifying the categories they have added in Outlook.
GA date: November CY2025

OneNote: Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels in OneNote

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:15:46 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

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. Fully launched in Teams and coming to SharePoint lists and libraries soon.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:30:52 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Expanded published report recipients

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:15:18 Z

This enables analysts to publish Viva Insights Power BI reports to anyone in their organization. Today, analysts can publish them only to people with Copilot Dashboard access.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Custom confidentiality statements

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:15:18 Z

This feature enables Company Admins to customize the default Microsoft Viva Glint confidentiality statement. Admins can choose to turn off the default statement and instead define confidentiality messaging tailored to their specific program settings, such as whether responses are configured to be confidential.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Improvements to site permissions user interfaces

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:15:26 Z

To better align with user expectations, site permissions are changing to look and work both in context on a website that is requesting permissions and when navigating to permissions from Settings. On a website that is requesting permissions, there are changes to the Omnibox and the Page Info dialog and permissions will be easier to see and modify in Settings.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: New controls for quick views in the chat list

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Positioned at the top of the chat and channels list, quick views give users fast access to mentions, followed threads, and more. Users can choose when and how quick views are displayed – selecting “always show,” “always hide,” or “show only when unread” – and can collapse the section at any time.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Audio recap language expansion

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Audio recap in Teams will begin supporting 8 new languages. These are (in alphabetical order) Chinese, variations across English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Easily find unsent drafts

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

Use the Drafts quick view to easily find, edit, and send draft messages.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Choose Your Enter Key Behavior in Teams Chat

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

Microsoft Teams now gives you control over how the Enter key works when composing messages. You can choose whether pressing Enter sends your message or starts a new line—making it easier to write longer messages without accidental sends.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage: Detect moderated themes in images

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:45:06 Z

Engages theme moderation feature is a powerful AI tool to monitor and moderate content. With this update, images can now match to themes, just like text.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 can utilize Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) and admin quarantine for zapped Teams messages.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:45:15 Z

A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for DoD

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:15:46 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules to automate agent lifecycle management.

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:30:57 Z

Admins will have the ability to set up rules for various scenarios, such as - 1. Auto block risky agents. 2. Auto delete inactive agents. 3. Auto reassign ownerless agents to manager. . #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to preview content in Insider Risk Management Alerts

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Insider Risk Management is excited to announce the ability to preview content directly within an IRM alert without having to create a case. Users with appropriate permissions will be able to preview relevant files referenced directly within activity explorer in each alert. 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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Fabric integration in Data Risk Assessment

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:15:33 Z

Within Purview's Data Security Posture Management (preview), Data Risk Assessment now supports scanning all Fabric workspaces for potentially overshared Fabric data (dashboards, reports, etc.). The new Fabric tab in Data Risk Assessment allows users to view default assessment results, create custom assessments for scoped Fabric workspaces, and take proactive actions to secure your Fabric data.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Open and Send Outlook File Templates

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:31:01 Z

We're introducing the ability to open and send OFT files (Outlook File Templates) on mobile. This feature allows users to view and open OFT files as a draft message, so users can easily resue their Outlook email templates.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Enterprise New Tab Page experience

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

A modern experience for the New Tab Page (NTP) on Microsoft Edge for Business.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:15:49 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 companion apps- a suite of apps designed to enhance productivity

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:00:11 Z

Microsoft 365 companions is a suite of apps, including People, File Search, and Calendar, designed to enhance productivity through quick access to key tools directly from the Windows 11 taskbar. These lightweight apps integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365, allowing users to efficiently look up contacts and navigate organization charts, locate files, view calendars and streamline workflows without distractions.
GA date: August CY2025

OneDrive: Sync admin reports - GCC-H and DoD

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:30:45 Z

We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC-H and DoD environments.
GA date: August CY2025

OneDrive: Prompt for permitted users to sign in to OneDrive app with personal Microsoft account

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:15:45 Z

Users have long been able to use personal Microsoft accounts with the OneDrive app on corporate Windows devices—unless restricted by admin policy. This new feature introduces a prompt only when a personal account is already signed in on the device, encouraging users to also sign in to the OneDrive app with that account. Administrators who have already restricted personal accounts on corporate devices can continue to manage this as before. Organizations that have already disabled personal OneDrive accounts on corporate devices with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see this prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy. More information on configuring policies can be found here:
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/use-group-policy#manage-onedrive-using-group-policy
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:15:52 Z

We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:15:11 Z

Microsoft Viva: Glint: AI-generated survey insights with Copilot Highlights

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

Copilot in Viva Glint now generates AI-powered summaries of employee survey results directly within Team Summary and Executive Summary reports, helping leaders quickly understand strengths, opportunities, and trends across their teams. Copilot Highlights surfaces key insights - such as notable score changes, benchmark comparisons, and response rate confidence - so leaders can move from data to action faster. With general availability, Copilot Highlights expands to support multilingual summaries, enabling global organizations to deliver AI-generated survey insights in their preferred language.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Instantly Find Rules, Quick Steps, and More by Name

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

Managing your email automation in Outlook is now effortless with name search built into your key productivity tools. You can search within Rules, Conditional Formatting, Quick Steps, and Search Folders, filtering the list by name so you jump straight to the item you need. Whether you have dozens of rules or a growing library of quick steps, just type a few characters to narrow down results instantly. No more scrolling through long lists to find the right one, search puts you in control. Stay organized and make changes faster, right where you need them. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Create SharePoint News Post from Copilot Pages

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

Once a Copilot Chat user has finished researching, creating, and collecting content in Copilot Pages, they can take it to a SharePoint News Post with the press of 'SharePoint' button under 'Create'.
GA date: May CY2026

OneDrive: Improved max path error experience on desktop

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:25 Z

OneDrive desktop sync users now get clearer, more actionable error messages when file paths exceed the supported 520-character limit. The updated experience shows exactly how many characters a path exceeds the limit and points users to the specific folder location where they can shorten names to resolve the issue. When multiple files in the same folder are affected, a single consolidated message guides users to the right location, reducing error noise and making resolution faster. Available on both Windows and Mac.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Annotations on Teams Single Window Sharing on Windows OS

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Microsoft Teams: Teams button on certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral devices one-click access to voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within the Teams mobile app (iOS).

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:09 Z

Now, you can connect your certified for Microsoft Teams personal Bluetooth device (such as your personal headset or earbuds) and with one press of the Teams button you can launch the Teams mobile app and invoke voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot within Teams. This feature eliminates the hassle of navigating menus on your mobile phone, giving you instant access to your personal AI assistant for quick conversational voice answers. This capability is initially available in iOS. Android and desktop client will be supported in a future release.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Capture voice notes in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:28 Z

With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, transform offline discussions into structured, actionable, and searchable content with voice notes in Copilot.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations-Introducing new purge mitigation action

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:15:48 Z

A new Data Security Investigations (DSI) mitigation action, purge, is now available to help admins quickly and efficiently delete sensitive or overshared content during investigations, within the product UX. This addition works alongside DSI’s AI-powered content analysis features, such as categorization, AI search, and examination for risk, which help surface data security risks buried in data.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (MAC)

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:35 Z

This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams on MAC devices without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user's local network.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Live meetings indicator for channels

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:15:01 Z

Introducing a new indicator in channels to help users find meetings occurring live within the channel and join them.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365: Cloud Update - Rollback by Group

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365: Cloud Update - Rollback All Devices

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:45:29 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Outlook: Account Manager

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:00:43 Z

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).
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Personalization settings

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

Microsoft Purview is launching a new Personalization page which will help users personalize their individual experience on Purview.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: June 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

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:30:08 Z

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
GA date: June 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

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:15:43 Z

Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:44:51 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:11 Z

You can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:11 Z

You can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: June CY2026

Windows 365: Windows 365 Link - Customization of the login screen

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:11 Z

IT can set a custom wallpaper, company logo and name on the Windows 365 Link login screen
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- New policy configuration options available for inline network and Edge for Business policies

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

Admins can now scope Purview collection policies for unmanaged cloud apps based on the presence of sensitivity labels, enabling more precise discovery of sensitive activity across inline network traffic and the Edge for Business browser. Purview DLP policies also support "URL contains text" as a condition and exception, providing finer control over unmanaged cloud app usage across the network and Edge for Business, along with configurable email notifications to alert end users when activities are blocked.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Share agents to Teams

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

With this feature, users will be able to share their agent with a Microsoft Teams team. Users can search for and find teams in the agent sharing dialog box. Users can also send a notification to the main channel of that team to make members aware of an agent being shared with them, and as an easy way to install and start using the agent.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Videos in the Clipchamp Start Page

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:15:13 Z

Users can use Copilot to create videos directly from the Clipchamp Start page. Turn a simple prompt or existing document into a polished video in minutes. Copilot will automatically draft a script, selects visuals, add narration, and assembles the video for you—no video editing experience required. Review, refine, and export your video quickly, all in one flow.
More info: https://m365.cloud.microsoft/launch/Clipchamp/
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: One-step folder sharing

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:15:05 Z

Today, sharing a folder requires manually sharing each parent folder in the hierarchy. Outlook will simplify this by allowing users to share a folder in a single step, automatically applying the required permissions to its parent folders. Before sharing, users will clearly see which folders (including parent folders) will be shared. This removes manual effort while keeping users informed and in control.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Pay-as-you-go model for Other Generative AI apps indicators

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

Outlook: New search folder types

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:53 Z

Search folders are being moved to the Settings experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web, improving discoverability and alignment with modern organization workflows. In addition, we are expanding supported search folder types, including mail with attachments, old mail, and large mail and more. Users will also gain the ability to filter search folders by specific folders, providing more precise control over how email is organized and surfaced. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: New search folder types

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:51 Z

Search Folders are being moved to the Settings experience in the new Outlook for Web and Windows, improving discoverability and alignment with modern organization workflows. In addition, we are expanding supported Search Folder types, including Mail with attachments, Old mail, and Large mail and more. Users will also gain the ability to filter Search Folders by specific folders, providing more precise control over how email is organized and surfaced. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Clear & Flag Actions in New Outlook

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:15:46 Z

We’re introducing new rule actions in the new Outlook for Web and Windows to give users greater flexibility and control. This includes Clear Categories, Clear Flag, Complete Flag, and Flag Message, enabling more precise automation of message organization and follow‑up workflows. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: February CY2026

Excel: =COPILOT Function

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:13 Z

Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data.
GA date: December CY2026

Minecraft Education: Update v1.21.13

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:15:16 Z

The "Copper, Collaborate & Compete" update for Minecraft Education, bringing the version to 1.21.13.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can hunt on calls in Microsoft Teams

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 can hunt on calls and meetings made inside Microsoft Teams for their organization
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Organization Evaluation Score for Apps and Agents

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent—generating an evaluation score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization’s standards and where further review is needed.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Run rule over a specific folder

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Run Rule on Specific Folder enables users to manually apply an existing rule to a chosen folder instead of running it only on incoming mail in Inbox. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: January CY2026

Excel: =COPILOT Function

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI - support for Windows endpoints on Omnissa environments

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:15:01 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Miracast support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:00:08 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Outlook: Expanded Conditions for Conditional Formatting in the New Outlook for Web and Windows

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:30:40 Z

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
GA date: January CY2026

Excel: =COPILOT Function

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data.
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Chat Notes

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:15:48 Z

A new collaborative space is now available directly from your Teams chat, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. Chat notes is available in 1:1 and group chat, and is accessible only to the chat members. Add images, format text, share Loop components, and mention chat members when you require their attention.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Play a Sound Rule

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

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
GA date: January CY2026

Outlook: Rule to display desktop alert

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

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
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Advanced Review Set Explorer

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:00:51 Z

The Advanced Review Set Explorer empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data leveraging. 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 Kusto 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 various flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data's story.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Outlook: Online archive for shared mailboxes in the new Outlook for Windows

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

Online archive mailboxes will appear in the folder pane alongside other accounts, making it easier to access archived content for shared mailboxes. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Copilot): Copilot Chat - Loop Notebooks in ContextIQ

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

When grounding your prompts in Copilot Chat, you will be able to use ContextIQ to scope to your Loop Notebooks content in the Files tab.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Administrative units support

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:30:37 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Adaptive scopes

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:30:04 Z

Ability to target IRM policies using global Adaptive Scopes. Adaptive scopes within IRM policies allow admins to use existing adaptive scopes created on the Microsoft Purview compliance portal within IRM policies, Adaptive scopes can be created using queries to define user groups dynamically. This feature provides more powerful targeting for policies, allowing different settings to be assigned to users based on attributes from Entra ID without the administrative burden of creating and maintaining groups. 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.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Capture targeted Copilot sentiment from power and novice users

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

Enable change leaders to quickly identify and auto-populate Microsoft 365 Copilot power users and novice users based on organizational attributes and aggregated Copilot usage data. Automatic audience targeting in Viva Pulse will empower change leaders to capture sentiment on Copilot use cases, verbatims, and learnings with insights into whether specific audiences need more training or whether certain pockets of the organization would benefit from receiving upgraded Copilot licenses.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Measure Copilot sentiment to change manage and scale Copilot adoption

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

Add new Viva Pulse survey templates for Copilot readiness, adoption, and business value, with built-in entry points and reporting surfaced directly in the Copilot Dashboard. All Copilot templates are fully customizable in Pulse, with the ability to add or edit questions using Copilot authoring and the question library. Organizations can also easily upload pilot group users into Pulse via CSV to target surveys at the right audiences from day one.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Remove bulk users from closed survey

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:45:10 Z

This feature enhancement will enable Viva Glint Admins to remove survey participants from closed surveys in bulk.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Backup RTMP Support for Teams town halls

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Teams town halls will soon provide support for a backup RTMP stream to keep a live broadcast running in the event of an interruption with the main stream.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Email attachment Preview in Activity Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:15:43 Z

We're enhancing Activity Explorer to provide greater visibility into sensitive data flagged in Exchange Online. Previously, only the message body was viewable, which limited insight into flagged content. With this update, admins will be able to preview email attachments directly within Activity Explorer—without needing to download the email.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

SharePoint: Modern SharePoint Page Templates

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Data Loss Prevention to safeguard sensitive web search in Microsoft 356 Copilot and Copilot Chat

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:15:05 Z

We are expanding Microsoft Purview DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat to safeguard web searches containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from using sensitive data for external web search. This capability currently extends to Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents built in Copilot Studio that are published to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chats can reference Memory

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot voice support in Word & PowerPoint.

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Chat in Work and PowerPoint now supports voice. Users can talk and interact with Copilot to brainstorm ideas, create content, and analyze information. Same as text, voice understand documents, work and web context.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Metadata understanding support for queries scoped to SharePoint document libraries or folders

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery- CMK (Customer managed key) for eDiscovery direct export

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data included in the direct export workflow in eDiscovery, adding to the Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can edit your document by default in Word

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

The default chat experience with Copilot in Word now allows Copilot to directly edit your document. All changes made by Copilot are fully reviewable and reversible, and users can turn this experience off if needed.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Auto-open Copilot side pane for Outlook links

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

When users open links from Outlook, Microsoft Edge can automatically open the Copilot side pane to provide contextual insights and actionable suggestion chips based on email and destination content - such as highlighting key points, and recommending next actions - without disrupting the browsing flow. This experience helps users quickly understand content, take action with fewer steps, and get more value from Copilot while extending productive browsing time in Edge.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Localized Default Mark and Notify Email Template

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

Enabling localization for the default Mark and Notify email template used in admin review and automation flows for user reported messages. This ensures end users receive review outcome notifications in their preferred language, improving understanding, trust, and participation in email reporting within Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:15:23 Z

View and control live transcription during a meeting from a Teams Rooms on Android device. The real-time transcript includes speaker names and timestamps. You can adjust settings such as spoken language, translated language, and whether both original and translated transcripts are displayed side by side on the front of room display. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enable watermarks for AI-generated content for M365 Copilot

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:51 Z

Add watermarks for AI-generated video, audio, and image gen content.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Review PDFs using Copilot context menu and AI actions

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

Copilot makes PDF reviews faster and easier. It explains selected text in plain language and lets you customize the prompt for tailored results—so you spend less time switching between apps.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Purview SDK embedded in Agent Framework SDK

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Purview SDK embedded in Agent Framework SDK enables developers to seamlessly integrate enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance into the AI agents they build. This integration enables automatic classification and protection of sensitive data, prevents data leaks and oversharing, and provides visibility and control for regulatory compliance—empowering organizations to confidently and securely adopt AI agents in complex environments.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automated Investigation & Response (AIR) Platform Modernization – User Submission Playbook

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:15:41 Z

We are modernizing the AIR platform for increased scalability and speed of AIR investigations to deliver the user submission playbook faster including quicker verdicts and faster resolutions.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Agentic AI Phish Submission Analysis & Response

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Similarity Clusters in AIR

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:00:02 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Branded footer in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:57 Z

This update introduces a co-branding experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app that helps organizations present an admin approved visual identifier directly within the Chat screen. Specifically, the experience enables administrators to leverage the organization-supported logo already managed in the Microsoft Admin Center theming settings and display it in the footer of the Chat screen, paired with a fixed label: “Approved by”.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Events in Meet app in Teams

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:00:58 Z

Users can now use the Teams Meet app to discover events across their organization, track what important events are upcoming, and plan and organize their own professional events.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Attend Microsoft webinars and structured meetings from Teams Rooms on Android

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:15:51 Z

You can join a Microsoft webinar and structured meeting from a Teams Room on Android and interact seamlessly during the event. Available for Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block external users in Microsoft Teams from Defender Portal

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:00:26 Z

Security admins with Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and above can block external users from sending messages, calls, meetings invitation over Microsoft Teams via the Tenant Allow Block List in Microsoft Defender portal. Updated January 28, 2026: We are pausing rollout at this time as we address an ongoing issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Network Device Interface (NDI) bandwidth increase

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent Dashboard.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

Viva Insights is creating an Agent Dashboard, designed to be a central place for leaders, delegates and analysts to understand how your organization is adopting agents. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Apps in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific shared 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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI - support for MacOS on Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:00:02 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Tip Support in Outlook for Mac

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:30:37 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Prompt category metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:30:13 Z

Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard will start showing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompt category metrics within Copilot Chat (work) insights. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook for Mac

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:15:05 Z

Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in classic Outlook for Windows

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

We will be adding declarative agents support for agents in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in classic Outlook for Windows.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Explain slide selection during PowerPoint Live

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:30:02 Z

This feature enhances the PowerPoint Live meeting experience by using Copilot to let attendees select slide text and get explanations for the content.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: Share Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files via the new Outlook for Windows

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:15:06 Z

When working in an open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file, users will now be able to send a copy of the locally stored file by email through the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2026

SharePoint: New SharePoint Experience

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:15:06 Z

We are introducing a reimagined SharePoint experience designed to be simple and intuitive, centered on the core jobs of discovering knowledge, publishing content, and building solutions. This update establishes the foundation for AI-assisted creation across the product. This includes an updated information architecture and cohesive design language, delivering a clean and consistent experience across surfaces.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Ability to create cases without content in IRM

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Insider Risk Management is providing the ability to create a case without content. With this, we will introduce a new active case limit (2000). This new functionality will allow customers to create more cases particularly when content download is unnecessary. If a case is created without content download, content download can be initiated anytime the case is active pending available content download limits. There is no change to the active content download limit (100). 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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Autocorrect in Teams compose

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:15:38 Z

Users will now have commonly misspelled words automatically corrected in compose.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Line key configuration on Teams Phone devices from Teams Admin Center (TAC)

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

This feature allows admins to configure line keys for various scenarios on Teams phone devices, including personal and common area phones (CAP). Scenarios supported include speed dial, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers. This item's rollout was paused and will begin in 2026. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:15:43 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin usage reports for Loop

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:15:13 Z

View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Local file support for Agent Mode in Excel

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:24 Z

Extending support for modern Excel workbooks stored on your device to Agent Mode in Excel, giving users the flexibility to use multi-step editing capabilities with Copilot in Excel no matter whether files are stored locally or in the cloud.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to Data Security Triage Agent

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:24 Z

Adding below enhancements to Data Security Triage Agent in MS Purview - Metadata supported Custom Instructions (DLP only) : Earlier the agent only supported custom instructions which are related to content (E.g. Focus on alerts related to financial information). Now we also support instructions related to metadata. (E.g. Focus on alerts related to financial information for user Adam in last 20 days) - Consolidated Agent settings : Earlier we had seperate controls for deployment configuration and triggers. We are now merging them into a single view as the settings can be altered anytime and it becomes easier for admins and analysts to change them from single view. - Support for alerts with Non content contains condition (DLP only) : Till now we were showing alerts generated from non-content contains conditions as unsupported. (E.g. Condition = RecipientDomainIs matches and triggers alert, alert is unsupported). Now we are bringing the alerts into triage capability and determining categorization for them also - Agent Identity : Now the Triage agent can be deployed with Agent's own identity generated in Microsoft Entra. There won't be a need to have the agent run using the user's identity who was setting up the agent. This provides cleaner audit capabilities.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Entra: App Deactivation

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:10 Z

Admins or app owners can now safely pause an app’s access to Entra protected resources without deleting it or disrupting configuration. When deactivated, the app and its service principals globally (across tenants) can’t request new tokens and user sign ins are blocked, while existing tokens simply expire on their normal schedule. This makes it easy for admins to temporarily freeze suspicious or unused apps during investigations, bulk cleanup, or tenant hygiene work. This capability is now available in the Entra admin center (App registrations, Enterprise apps) and Microsoft Graph API.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/enterprise-apps/deactivate-application-portal
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Word Agent

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

Word Agent helps you handle research, structure, and formatting so you can stay focused on your ideas. Use multi‑turn chat to refine your draft or open it in Word for full editing and collaboration. It’s designed for long‑form, information‑dense work—like strategic plans, policy documents, and technical papers—making it easier to turn complex material into clear, well‑written content. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable web app installation from the browser

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:00:26 Z

Admins can control whether users can install web apps through the browser using the WebAppInstallByUserEnabled policy.
GA date: February CY2026

Planner: Custom Templates

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Announcement page on update experience

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Securely enable AI generated applications

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:20 Z

Leverage the latest AI advancements to build prototypes, learning applications or interactive reports using your favorite tools in Edge without worrying about your data. This extension enables apps to leverage some new security improvements for safely executing AI generated code.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Wait on Send for oversharing dialog in New Outlook

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

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
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams optimization in Amazon WorkSpaces

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:00:54 Z

New VDI solution for Teams introduces multimedia offloading and optimization solution for Microsoft Teams when running in Amazon WorkSpaces (Personal and Pools). Users of the WorkSpaces Client for Windows can enjoy a high-definition experience in virtual desktops, where audio/video/screensharing are offloaded to the user's device and processed by the SlimCore media engine. This entry applies to WorkSpaces only (AppStream is not supported).
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:15:03 Z

Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – AI analysis enhancements

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Data Security Investigations (DSI) now further enhances its AI analysis tools, including the ability to choose between a standard categorization for potential time and/or cost savings or a more advanced categorization to include AI-generated topics. Additionally, we are making the DSI workflow faster by automatically preparing data for AI analysis as it is being added to the investigation, saving critical investigation time.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Export DLP and Label Policy Configurations

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

A new export functionality will be introduced in two locations: the Data Loss Prevention > Policies page and the Information Protection > Label publishing policies page. This feature will allow users to export their existing DLP configurations and label policies, including schema, as a downloadable ZIP file. The exported file can be attached to support tickets to accelerate troubleshooting.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Outlook: Improved results when filtering your message list

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot - Billing and usage - Standalone consumption of prepaid capacity pack credits

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Use a prepaid capacity pack as the sole billing method for supported Copilot experiences. Admins can configure billing policies with prepaid capacity such that usage for users in the policy is deducted exclusively from prepaid capacity credits, with no pay as you go charges.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Resizable Gallery in Teams Meetings

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Resize the top video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Navigation management for Progress Web Apps

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:53 Z

Microsoft Edge has improved how a Progressive Web App (PWA) handles user navigation. When a user clicks a link, the browser will determine whether it should launch the installed PWA or open a new browser tab to give users a more seamless experience.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Queues app historical reporting supports 45 days of data

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:15:15 Z

Historical reporting within Queues app will now support 45 days of historical data. The report will default a 7-day range with ability to customize the reporting range with up to 45 days of history.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Adding protection against malicious sideloaded extensions

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:15:43 Z

Microsoft Edge will detect and revoke malicious sideloaded extensions.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business in your open YouTube videos

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:45:08 Z

Get relevant answers and insights about your open YouTube videos in Copilot Chat in Edge.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.145 - Add “Summarize” and “Explain” Copilot actions in PDF reader

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Global Address List Redesign

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:15:27 Z

The Global Address List, or Address Book, is getting a major visual redesign to make it easier to navigate, show more contact information in the search results list, improve its accessibility, and improve its appearance overall. This window is accessible via the To/Cc/Bcc buttons in the email compose form. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Summarization, Translation, and Citation will soon be supported by Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in our menus

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Menus in Edge where the user has highlighted content in the browser will soon support a summarization, translation, and citation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat access to page content will soon extend to work across multiple open tabs

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge will soon be able to answer contextual questions about a user's open window. This extends the existing capability which can only access the open page. All existing user settings and policies and DLP considerations will continue to be respected.
GA date: February CY2026

Outlook: Editor (Proofing and Spellcheck)

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Automatic spelling and grammar checking when composing an email message. Corrections are underlined on the draft, and clicking on them reveals suggested corrections.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows - Reply To header

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:30:29 Z

Users will be able to toggle a "Reply to" field in the email compose form, which will allow them to add one or multiple addresses which will be used as the recipients for any replies to that message. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: External tag in contact suggestions

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:45:15 Z

An "External" tag will be added to contact suggestions that appear in the dropdown when entering contacts in the email compose form in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:15:37 Z

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
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Edge: A Refreshed Profile Flyout Experience for Better Clarity and Actionability

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

We’re updating the Microsoft Edge profile flyout to deliver a cleaner, more intuitive experience. The refreshed design makes it easier to distinguish between work and personal profiles, manage credentials, and quickly access key settings—all within a polished interface that supports modern browsing needs. With streamlined sign-in, clearer profile types, and organization branding preserved, this update enables a more efficient and trustworthy experience for customers.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

When creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode, you can reference an existing PowerPoint file, so Copilot applies its theme and styles to the new deck, keeping the design consistent.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an attached PowerPoint deck’s style when creating a new presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Survey Designer Role

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 Z

To empower organizations to run additional employee listening programs, like AI transformation or change management cases, we are creating a dedicated Survey Designer role. This role grants a user just enough permissions to run a Viva Glint survey without full access to platform settings and sensitive data, thus creating a more democratized platform.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Create custom templates for immersive events in Microsoft Teams

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:20 Z

This release brings the next evolution in immersive collaboration in Teams. Designed for creators and event organizers, these new capabilities empower users to create, manage, and use immersive templates for immersive events in Teams and save those templates to collections to use in future events—directly within the Teams Meet app. Users can save customized immersive events as reusable templates to an immersive collection, and share them with others by adding co-owners and members to collections.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:15:49 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Tracking prevention when browsing InPrivate

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:15:38 Z

Microsoft Edge is unifying the tracking prevention experience for non-InPrivate and InPrivate browsing windows. Microsoft Edge will use the same tracking prevention setting as a normal browsing window when in InPrivate mode.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Shared call history in Queues app

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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
GA date: January CY2026

Excel: Python in Excel

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Engage - Agents in communities

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:27 Z

Agents in Viva Engage communities supports communities by answering questions, facilitating knowledge sharing, citing sources, and scaling expertise.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Outlook: New third-party enriched properties available for customizing profile cards

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Unattended Remote Help for Windows - Remote Sign-in

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:00:23 Z

Remotely access devices over the cloud without requiring end user involvement by signing in with credentials.
GA date: July CY2026

Outlook: Offline Support for Calendar - Create, Edit and Delete Event support

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

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
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Authoring with M365 Copilot

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:30:29 Z

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
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot - Billing & usage: High-usage users

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:15:55 Z

See a list of users with high Copilot pay-as-you-go usage (i.e., greater than 2000 credits). You can buy and assign Copilot licenses to the high-usage users directly on this page.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel for desktop apps

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:13 Z

Agent Mode is releasing to Copilot in Excel on Windows and Mac enabling users to build and edit workbooks with Copilot using multi-step workflows. Eligible licenses can now select which model to use, including both Open AI and Anthropic models.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-New cmdlet to remove retention from inactive mailboxes

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:35 Z

Today, there is not a way to remove retention policies or labels (called a hold in Exchange) from items in inactive mailboxes in bulk. Now we are introducing a PowerShell cmdlet that enables retention policies or labels to be removed in bulk from these items. This removal will not affect legal holds.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduling with Copilot

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:15:16 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Excel

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

Outlook: Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:00:20 Z

Easily summarize your email and attachments with Copilot chat in a single click. This will be available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who have pinning enabled. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows #newoutlookforwindows Updated February 13, 2026: We previously marked this as Launched, but this feature is still rolling out. We apologize for the inconvenience.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot from the address bar

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

When users type a search query in the Edge address bar, they will have the option to send their search query directly to Copilot for a synthesized, more targeted answer pulling from across the web (and their work content, for premium users).
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for historical imports

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:15:26 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Validate Edge builds early with enterprise preview

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:15:26 Z

Enterprise preview provides a simpler way for admins to flight pre-release Edge builds to their users. To reduce friction and bolster usage, users will receive pre-release builds directly inside of their Stable Edge application. Admins can allow users to easily opt-out of the preview experience, using built-in rollback to switch between their pre-release and stable channels with ease. Microsoft 365 admin center users can configure the feature, view their flighting population, and receive personalized recommendations all in one place.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Outlook: Book a Workspace when Creating an Event

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

When creating an event, you can now book a workspace directly from the location field by searching or tapping Browse Workspaces. This feature is only available if you have workspace bookings enabled in settings and by your IT admin.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – Chat & Search Browser Extension for Chrome

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:17 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Planner: Available in Outlook

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Updated Multi-Select Actions in Outlook Mobile

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

We are updating the toolbar when selecting multiple emails so you can customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.
GA date: December CY2025

Outlook: Updated Compose Actions in Outlook Mobile

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

We are updating the toolbar when composing an email so you can customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Advanced editing from camera

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:45:04 Z

This aligns the capture experience in camera and editor by enabling a seamless switch to the Clipchamp editor to make videos more appealing and impactful using advanced edit capabilities.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Enable DLP Diagnostics for All Roles with Purview DLP Policy Access

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

We’re updating permissions to ensure that all roles with access to view DLP policies in Microsoft Purview can also run diagnostics on those policies. This change enhances visibility and empowers authorized users to troubleshoot and validate policy behavior more effectively. The following roles will now have diagnostic access: Organization Configuration View-Only Configuration Compliance Admin Security Admin Security Reader DLP Compliance Management View-Only DLP Compliance Management Insider Risk Management Admin Information Protection Admin Information Protection Analyst Information Protection Investigator Data Security AI Admin
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

OneDrive: Microsoft 365 Copilot in OneDrive

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

We're excited to bring M365 Copilot in OneDrive, a new unified Copilot chat experience designed to make working with your files simpler, smarter, and more seamless across Microsoft 365.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create executive summary slides with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:53 Z

Generate an Executive Summary slide for your presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint. Copilot delivers a polished draft that highlights your key points and provides a clear, executive ready summary.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Search Helps You Discover People

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Now Copilot Search can return matching people for your broader people search queries. Allowing you to discover, disambiguate, and explore known and new people to contact. Discover Whether you're looking for people with a specific skill like "Project leadership" or "Artificial Intelligence" Copilot Search can help you explore potential contacts through the People data source. Disambiguate When there are multiple people matching in exact name, email, or alias Copilot Search will help you disambiguate through a new carousel on the main results page alongside other relevant results.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Search Matches on People's Department

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Copilot Search can now match on a person's department, and you can find/lookup all people in a given department when searching the people source directly.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Digital signage in Teams Rooms on Android

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:15:29 Z

As with Teams Rooms on Windows, IT Admins can now set up Teams Rooms on Android to show dynamic signage content on the front-of-room display when the device is not in use for meetings or presentation. Configuration is available for tenant-wide and room-specific settings via the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. The feature supports select third-party digital signage partners like Appspace and XOGO, and is included with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Android console

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:09 Z

With Teams Rooms on Android consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills - Expanded AI inferencing for E3/E5 users

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:31:01 Z

People Skills is expanding AI powered skill inferencing to include Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licensed users. Previously, AI powered skill inferencing was available only to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Viva licensed users. With this update, admins will have the option to turn on AI powered skill inferencing for Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 licensed users directly in the Microsoft 365 admin center. AI powered skill inferencing uses AI to automatically identify and update skills on users’ Microsoft 365 profiles based on their work activity from the Microsoft Graph. This control will be available to tenants with Copilot licenses.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Agent Mode in Excel

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:15:46 Z

Available for Microsoft 365 subscribers without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Agent Mode is releasing to Copilot in Excel for the web, Windows and Mac, enabling users to build and edit workbooks with Copilot using multi-step workflows. When you're updating budgets, creating financial models, or analyzing data, Agent Mode uses Excel's most powerful tools like tables, charts, PivotTables, and formulas to help you get the job done.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Entra: Microsoft Security Copilot App Lifecycle Management Agent in Microsoft Entra

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:35 Z

Application Lifecycle Management Agent: This agent unifies the entire application lifecycle into one intelligent workflow—replacing multiple disconnected admin tasks with a single, guided experience. It automatically discovers unmanaged private apps using Global Secure Access telemetry, recommends onboarding them to Microsoft Entra, and handles setup with automated naming, tagging, and least-privilege scoping. After onboarding, the agent continuously monitors app usage and permissions, flags unused high privileged apps and proactively notifies owners with clear next steps via Teams or email. Using the data the agent has gathered, it suggests a phased disablement plan that admins can customize to their risk prioritization preferences.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support permission sync missed in incremental crawl

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Earlier, permissions were synced only in the periodic full crawl which generally ha a default frequency of 1 day for most of the connectors. Now, we have support for doing permission syncs more frequently in an incremental way.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit capability for selecting permission reading option for existing ServiceNow Knowledge & Catalog Connections

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

Earlier admins had to create new connections to adopt to the hierarchical permissions for ServiceNow Knowledge & Catalog Copilot Connectors as the edit capability was missing. Now, admins can easily edit their existing connections to switch between the permission handling option i.e. Simple vs Advanced to quickly adopt to the hierarchical permission feature.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Copilot Notebooks UX

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Users will find an updated, streamlined UX flow within Copilot Notebooks.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot about highlighted response content

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

Highlight a sentence, paragraph, or table from the response and ask Copilot to work only on that selection. Get focused explanations, concise summaries, quick translations, or next steps for the exact passage you’re reviewing—no more over broad answers. Your selection is previewed in the prompt so you can edit before you send. It’s a faster, more controlled way to get help right where you’re working.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can now edit user mappings and query filters for ServiceNow Connector

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

Support connection edit of user mapping, query filter for ServiceNow
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find Exactly What You Need, Faster

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Now you can filter your search as you type. Use person and source filters right in the Search box to refine results instantly. Get smart suggestions and see only what matters, all without leaving the box. 1. When “person” or “source” is typed, a list of relevant filter suggestions appears. This helps auto-complete the filter expression and enables effective pre-scoping. 2. Once filters are applied in the Search box, all subsequent suggestions are refined based on those filters.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

OneNote: Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Web

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Users will now have access to their Copilot Notebooks on the web version of OneNote.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New Create module with Word, Excel and PPT templates

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:15:34 Z

New Create module within M365 Copilot App to access Word, Excel and PPT templates.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Teams Channels in Context IQ

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Increased efficiency with auto-generated Copilot Pages

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:51 Z

Copilot Chat can automatically create and open a Page side-by-side when it detects a relevant scenario, enabling instant editing, steering, and sharing.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Camera Update

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

Camera in our editor will be updated to a newer version with improved recording controls and command bar options.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Windows Widget

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

With Microsoft Clipchamp Windows widget, Windows 11 users will have a quick way to launch screen recording, camera recording and create video projects.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Sort by Flag option

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:50 Z

We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives

Thu, 02 May 2024 23:15:25 Z

Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference webpages when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference webpages when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference an email when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference an email when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference an email when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

You can now attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create executive summary slides with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create executive summary slides with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create presentations with Work IQ using Agent Mode in Copilot in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Now with Agent Mode in Copilot in PowerPoint, you can create presentations based on your Work IQ. Build rich presentations without the heavy lift of finding all the right files, meetings, and emails to compose relevant slides.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): ): Create presentations with Work IQ using Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Now with Agent Mode in PowerPoint, you can create presentations based on your Work IQ. Build rich presentations without the heavy lift of finding all the right files, meetings, and emails to compose relevant slides.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create presentations with Work IQ using Agent Mode in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

Microsoft Edge: Enhanced Autofill

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:04 Z

For desktop users, Microsoft Edge can now autofill additional document types—including passports, driver’s licenses, and other specialized forms—on top of your saved addresses.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Surveys Agent and Copilot Chat in Microsoft Forms

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now integrated in Microsoft Forms, including enabling the Surveys Agent from within Forms. Surveys Agent provides specialized capabilities to help with your form - from recommending and applying improvements to your form or quiz, to helping draft and send invitations, to analyzing your results. Surveys Agent is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and can be accessed by clicking the "Copilot" icon in Forms.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Navigation improvements in Reporting

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:31:01 Z

Viva Glint Reporting users like managers and leaders will be able to retrace their navigation flow i.e. drill down and drill up in reports rather than lose their navigation flow within reports. Navigation improvements will replace "Go Back" to Reporting home page with an alternative clickable UX to enable users to go back to the last page of reporting they were in. In other words, this feature will cater to Back navigation improvements in Reporting.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Bitbucket Pull Requests with Copilot Connectors

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:15:23 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Bitbucket with Copilot connectors to query knowledge base content and pull requests.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

We’re expanding the Interpreter agent in Microsoft Teams to include real-time speech-to-speech interpretation for Teams calls. This brings the same functionality previously available in meetings to calls, enabling users to speak and listen in up to nine supported languages. 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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot with OneDrive files in Finder

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

We’re bringing the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot directly into your daily file management experience in macOS. With this update, users can interact with Copilot in Finder to ask questions about their OneDrive files.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: VDI optimization monitoring in Best practice configurations dashboard

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

Administrator can monitor which locations and users across their organization are facing meeting quality issues due to unoptimized VDI.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Miro Visuals with Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Miro with Copilot connectors to query visual boards and diagrams.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query GitLab Merge Requests and Content with Copilot

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to GitLab with Copilot connectors to query knowledge base content and merge requests
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Shortcut to manage agile development workflows with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Shortcut to manage agile development workflows with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Aha! to manage product features and customer ideas with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Aha! to manage product features and customer ideas with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Agent Support in Copilot Notebooks

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

With Agents in Notebooks, use the specialized skills and knowledge of Agents on the content that matter most to your task at hand, whether it’s transforming complex data into clear insights and visualizations with Analyst, or creating stunning designs with Designer.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Update user labels to show familiarity with external users

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:15:01 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Block posts with theme moderation

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Search for images

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:00:54 Z

Users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can now easily summarize emails in a single click, using Copilot chat. Users must have access to Copilot chat and pinning enabled to utilize. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Multi-language posts

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

Authors of Viva Engage posts will be able to add multiple manually written translations to a single post.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ticket Status updates more frequently in ServiceNow Tickets Copilot Connector

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

ServiceNow Tickets Copilot connector did not use to correctly update the ticket status because of not ingesting inactive tickets. But now, the connector updates the change in ticket status more frequently. Additionally, users can now edit the data query filter to include inactive tickets even for existing connections. By default, copilot connectors now ingest both active & inactive tickets to ensure better quality responses in Copilot connectors.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Mac device and device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview in Microsoft Admin Center

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use voice for Q&A during Read Aloud in Word

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

Interact in real time with read aloud in Word with Copilot. While your document is being read aloud, you can ask questions with your voice—such as “What does this mean?” or “Summarize this section”—and get answers instantly. No need to pause and search manually. This keeps you in context, reduces interruptions, and helps you understand and act faster.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Cross-platform policies in the Edge management service

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for more unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for file uploads to unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Graph API support for Working Hours and Location

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

We're adding support in Microsoft Graph to read and write users' Working Hours and Location #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:15:40 Z

We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Android

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Android, users will see a preview experience where they can use M365 Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the file. If users wish to edit the document, they will transition to the standalone Word, Excel, or PowerPoint app. PDF scenarios are not affected. The feature will begin a phased rollout in December.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Benchmarks

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Compare Copilot active usage with benchmarks in Copilot Dashboard. External benchmarks will provide a reference for how usage compares to other companies. Internal benchmarks will enable users to compare similar groups, within your company. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management - Policy scoping enhancements

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

After further review, we continue rolling this out. We apologize for any inconvenience. With this release, Insider Risk Management administrators can include or exclude specific users, groups, and adaptive scopes within policies. We are also adding support for non-mail enabled Security Groups within IRM policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - User analytics

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - User exclusion

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:30:49 Z

After further review, we continue rolling this out. We apologize for any inconvenience. This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: One-stop admin portal for Teams devices with Teams Rooms Pro Management

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Admins now have a one-stop portal for inventory, health monitoring, management, and analytics for both Windows and Android devices with the Pro Management portal. Management of all Android Teams rooms, panels, and phone devices are transitioning to this portal from the Teams admin center, enabling easy, consistent, and secure management of Teams devices across all operating systems and manufacturers.
GA date: June CY2026

Outlook: Reply Options for EML Attachments

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Now, when opening a .eml attachment, users will see reply, reply all and forward options.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: Reply Options for EML Attachments

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Now, when opening a .eml attachment, users will see reply, reply all and forward options.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Clipchamp: Improved audio for Copilot AI-generated video projects

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

With a Microsoft365 Copilot license, Copilot AI-generated video projects have improved audio with realistic AI voiceover, professional sound effects, and enhanced audio mixing.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft CoPilot (Microsoft 365): Makers can build DA's with Flexible layouts and rich UX components

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Flexible layouts and rich UX components will enable makers to build highly expressive agents, ultimately driving increased user engagement and virality.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Search Supports SharePoint Online Custom Properties Search

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Discover and find people through Microsoft 365 Copilot Search based on your company's custom profile properties from SharePoint Online.
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can govern and manage federated copilot connectors in Microsoft 365 admin center

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:51 Z

Admins can govern and manage federated copilot connectors in Microsoft 365 admin center. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Structured Document Generation with Forms

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:20 Z

Structured Document Generation with Forms enables organizations to create, manage, and generate standardized documents at scale with built-in governance and compliance in SharePoint. Business process owners can centrally build and maintain form-driven templates -- such as contracts, agreements, proposals, and HR documents -- ensuring content stays accurate and up to date. Users can then generate the right document every time by just filling out the form, without manual formatting, versioning issues, or compliance risk, simplifying high-volume, structured document workflows across the organization.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Call quality feedback surveys for Teams Rooms on Android

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:15:46 Z

Users can now rate the quality of their calls and meetings and provide additional feedback on calling, video, and screen-sharing experiences to help organizations ensure consistent, high-quality experiences.
GA date: June CY2026

Outlook: Calendar Conditional Formatting in New Outlook

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026

Outlook: Import calendars and contacts from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Custom user mapping for SuccessFactors integration

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:45:45 Z

Admins can now specify the user mapping attributes in the LMS setup form.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Outlook: Read-only access to contacts within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:45:14 Z

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 browse and read contacts within a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Import emails from PST file to mailbox in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Microsoft 365: Change Meeting Organizer via PowerShell Cmdlet in Exchange Online

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:15:27 Z

Allows the administrator of an Exchange Online tenant to change the organizer of an existing meeting or meeting series via a PowerShell cmdlet. This can be used, for example, to maintain continuity and history of a long-running meeting series in cases where the meeting organizer has a new role, is on leave, or during the offboarding process. Once the meeting is transferred, the new organizer will be able to maintain all properties of the event including meeting time and recurrence, attendees, and description. Meeting attendees within the Exchange Online tenant will not need to re-RSVP and the existing event on their calendar will be silently updated with the new meeting organizer information. A subsequent feature will enable users to to change the organizer via Modern Calendar in OWA, New Outlook, and Teams. For user-initiated transfers the new organizer must accept the meeting before the transfer completes.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Teams: User reported security signals in Teams admin center

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:13 Z

This update brings end user security reporting into Teams Admin Center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages users report as a security concern or not a security concern within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine tune policies and responses.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring)

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:26 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Chat with anyone who has an email address

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:15:41 Z

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! We will be releasing to GA at a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Dropbox to access and manage cloud files with Copilot Connector

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:00:30 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Dropbox to access and manage cloud files with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Open Teams' apps in new window

Tue, 27 May 2025 23:15:03 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Sync provider data from a specific date range

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:30:32 Z

We are introducing flexibility on provider setup form where admins can sync data from specific dates for a provider instead of full data sync.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Retention based on Last Accessed for files in OneDrive and SharePoint

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:15:40 Z

This creates the ability to apply Retention to each SharePoint or OneDrive item based on when it was last accessed by a user. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Customer Facing Reports via Insights Integration

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:15:50 Z

Org level breakdown of Learning metrics in Viva Insights.
GA date: June CY2025

OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:04 Z

Find yourself referencing the same files using Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to customers on OneDrive Web.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:30:21 Z

In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint).
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:15:43 Z

Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:21:02 Z

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).
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:05:23 Z

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 on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Catalog – Advanced resource sets

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:25 Z

Logical grouping of files with same schema and are under the same folder into a single file known as resource set. Using advanced resource set capability, customers can define pattern rules that will help group files based on custom patterns.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Masking in Copilot chat

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

When an image needs precise editing, masking enables users to more accurately select an object or area in their image for AI to edit.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Relight images in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

Edit or enhance the lighting in uploaded or generated images directly in Copilot Chat and the Create experience.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: 1080P Resolution in Teams Town Halls

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Open channels in a new window

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:02 Z

You can now open channels in a separate window to stay on top of multiple conversations at once.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator can help manage tasks and create documents

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:15:06 Z

Facilitator can help users manage tasks and create documents during meetings. In addition to the tasks that the agent is automatically capturing during the meeting, users can ask Facilitator directly through the meeting chat to create, edit, and assign tasks, which sync to Planner. For tasks related to document creation, users can assign to Facilitator and it will draft the document based on the meeting discussion. Users can also ask the agent to create a draft document on a topic discussed in the meeting.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent meeting recap can summarize content shared on screen

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

Intelligent meeting recap can incorporate content shared on screen in the AI-based summary provided after the meeting, providing a richer and more comprehensive recap of the meeting. It captures details that are shown when a participant shares their screen, ensuring those unspoken insights become part of the meeting recap.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management - Risky AI usage

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:15:15 Z

With this update, Insider Risk Management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copy Tables in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:15:51 Z

Users can now copy tables created in Copilot. Leverage Copilot to make your content better and use it anywhere you need to.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Unified Plus menu (+)

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:15:51 Z

We're simplifying the Input Box in Copilot Chat by bringing together various user actions under the Plus menu (+). The unified Plus menu (+) will continue to allow users to add content to prompts, while also letting them access tools/agents and manage data sources used to ground Copilot.
GA date: February CY2026

Planner: Support for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity labels

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:26 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purviewl: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing new AI analysis capabilities

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introduction of both in-product cost estimator and transparency report

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Excel: Formula completion with Copilot in Excel

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:00:27 Z

This feature leverages AI to autocomplete the user's formula upon typing the '=' sign. It provides context-based suggestions, streamlining the formula creation process by offering intelligent and relevant completions.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Apply partial settings for Android devices using configuration profiles in the Teams admin center

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

In the Teams admin center, admins can now modify, review, and apply configuration settings to Android devices without overriding other settings ensuring only the desired changes are made.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup capabilities available in GCC

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:15:20 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Ability to view inferred skills and course recommendations

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

Learners would be able to select skills for learning, view inferred skills and courses recommendations based on inferred skills. Inferred skills are generated by taking users activity in M365 ecosystem into account.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Detailed error description for SuccessFactors sync failures

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:00:33 Z

Sync failure details pop-up will now have detailed error description and next steps.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Ingestion logs in Viva Learning for SAP SuccessFactors

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:30:41 Z

This creates LMS ingestion logs for sync summary, user sync, and LRS data. Logs will help admins debug any ingestion-related issues.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft365): Graph API - Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage

Wed, 15 May 2024 23:30:02 Z

Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2024

Microsoft 365: New map-based room booking experience in Places Finder

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:49 Z

We are enhancing the room booking experience in the new calendar experience across Outlook for Windows, Outlook for the web, and Teams by introducing a map view within Places Finder. This update replaces the existing side panel with a full screen, easier to use interface that helps people quickly find and book the right space.
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft 365: New profile cards for buildings, rooms and desks

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:49 Z

Buildings, rooms and desks that are added to the Places directory will have new profile cards, accessible from Copilot Chat and across other Microsoft 365 entry points.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Copilot Chat

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:49 Z

Currently, clicking on cited content in Copilot opens files outside of Copilot. With this new feature, content can be opened directly in Copilot Chat to make viewing documents more streamlined alongside chat. This change is not available on the Microsfot 365 Copilot mobile app or when using Copilot in Edge, Copilot in Excel, Copilot in Word, and Copilot PowerPoint.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot connectors are available for U.S. Department of Defense environment

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:49 Z

Copilot connectors enable organizations to integrate content from other external data sources into Microsoft Graph, improving Copilot’s intelligence, contextual responses, and content discoverability
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Automatic removal of EXIF data from shared images

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:15:46 Z

Teams will automatically remove hidden metadata (EXIF) from images shared in conversations. This privacy protection helps prevent sensitive information such as photo location and device details from being shared without your knowledge.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Ability for IT admins to customize the user notification strings for recording and transcription

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

IT admins can customize the message and privacy link used to notify implicitly or gain explicit consent from meeting participants for the use of recording, transcription during the meeting.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall and Webinar in Teams Rooms on Windows

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:15:41 Z

When a Teams Rooms on Windows 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.
GA date: October CY2025

Excel: Post-migration Excel remediation

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:15:05 Z

Enable the remediation of incompatible formulas and file links in formulas in Excel files after migration from other cloud platforms to Microsoft 365.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Customize M365 Copilot for your organization with Copilot Tuning

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:30:28 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning is introducing new templates in Agent Builder, designed for tasks such as drafting complex documents, validating documents against guidelines, and editing to match a distinct writing style. Users with Copilot Tuning enabled can further customize the template-based agents by tuning the context, tools, and underlying models with their organization’s proprietary data, processes, and standards. This empowers your teams with customized agents aligned to how your organization works.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

PowerPoint: Designer is now part of Copilot, enhanced with new template and slide Suggestions.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:15:18 Z

Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot Suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Intune: macOS Custom Compliance

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:15:33 Z

This feature will enable users to use discovery script and json file to define compliance policy to specific organziational needs. The experience mirrors Windows and Linux custom compliance experience.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management- Insider risk management for agents

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint DLP - Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Mac devices

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:45:39 Z

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on Mac devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types.This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Web tab

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:15:16 Z

Enables users to schedule recurring prompts in the Web tab
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Natural language support for Scheduling prompts

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

This feature allows users to simply express their intention conversationally, and Copilot infers their intention and creates a scheduled prompt automatically.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Troubleshoot meetings and calls with automatic issue identification and recommendations

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

Administrators can troubleshoot Teams meetings and calls in Teams admin center with ease with a streamlined flow, meeting quality issues, and detailed telemetry.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Planner capabilities in Copilot chat (M365 Copilot)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

OneNote: Copilot Notebook in OneNote iPhone and iPad

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Emojis in Section Names

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

Choose an emoji to accompany section names in your chats and channels list.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures. Administrators are equipped with detailed information on issues, insights, and mitigation tools to promptly and effectively address any potential client health problems.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Extensions monitoring in the Edge management service

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

The Microsoft Edge management service now allows admins to gain visibility into extensions installed across their managed users. From the extensions monitoring page, admins can see which extensions have been installed as well as manage user requests for blocked extensions.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft 365: Enhancements to the room booking experience in the Places app

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:19 Z

We’re enhancing the room booking experience in the Places App to align with the desk booking flow and visuals. This unifies the booking experience across rooms and desks.
GA date: March CY2026

Outlook: Updated Copilot Button for Android

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Highlights on Copilot adoption from Viva Engage

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Explore how Copilot is making a difference in your organization through Viva Engage posts that users have shared. The Copilot Dashboard showcases real-world success stories, user-shared excitement about new Copilot features, and vibrant community discussions. These examples offer a qualitative view into how Copilot is driving productivity and engagement across your tenant, directly in the Copilot Dashboard. #CopilotControlSystem
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Auto-Archive for Exchange Online

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): In Copilot Pages, the Chat can now be used to modify the Page

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Upload Local Files now Support .eml and .msg file types

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:53 Z

Users will now be able to upload .eml and .msg files and share it as context with Copilot Chat and M365 Copilot App.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Tenant Restrictions v2 (TRv2)

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:15:38 Z

New enforcement to block access from unauthorized Microsoft 365 tenants directly in Microsoft Edge for Business, helping organizations maintain strict compliance and prevent data leakage across tenant boundaries.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Email attachment Preview in Activity Explorer

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:15:23 Z

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - New WebGL software backend

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

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.
More info: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fwin32%2Fdirect3darticles%2Fdirectx-warp&data=05%7C02%7Cv-zbeg%40microsoft.com%7Cf203f7982a30414cb90a08de1e5e8d5d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638981588692598882%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bK82pFEbE%2BVGvJO%2FbPYUuc8OmyOrOLCY2bhdmks936Q%3D&reserved=0
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Update storyline cover photos in Teams for iOS.

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:04 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Outlook: Outlook for Android supports PDF attachment preview

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Users can now preview PDFs directly in the Outlook for Android app.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Restart your Town hall event

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Improved Autofill experience in Microsoft Edge

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Learning agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:59 Z

The Learning agent helps employees build skills through personalized microlearning and structured learning experiences.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Content Explorer – Enhanced Tag (SIT, Labels) Filter at UI Layer

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete Teams transcripts and/or Teams recordings

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [AdminX] Pre-setup guides, editability, actionable errors & alerting support available for Connector admins

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Pre-setup guides, editability, actionable errors & alerting support available for Connector admins.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection - Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

Outlook: New Outlook Support For GCC-High and DoD

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

New Outlook will support the connection of accounts in special environments, starting with GCC-High and DoD. In this release, all mailboxes connected to New Outlook will need to be hosted in the same special environment. Updates regarding rollout to additional specialized cloud environments will be provided in separate roadmap items as soon as projected timelines are available. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Permissions report for a given user - SharePoint admin center

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

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
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Adding support for viewing Sensitivity labels applied to a Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) Protected PDF

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Outlook: People Hub improvements in new Outlook for Windows

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:30:14 Z

In new Outlook for Windows, the People Hub offers a streamlined contacts interface with a single view of each person, automatically linking duplicates and enriching them with organizational profiles. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Source context based file protection for Endpoint

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:01:00 Z

Protect file based on the website the file is downloaded or the app the file is created.
GA date: February CY2026

Planner: Task chat and mentions in basic plans

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can now answer questions about opened Copilot Pages in chat

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:00:33 Z

When using Copilot Pages side-by-side in Copilot Chat, you can now ask questions in chat about your open page, and Copilot will provide answers based on the contents of that page.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Logged-in user details on the Purview device onboarding page

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:15:29 Z

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Export Executive Summary report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:16 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Custom permissions UI enhancements in Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Inline protection, alerting, and incident management for sensitive data shared over the network through non-Microsoft SASE integrations

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to variant limits and detection groups

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Newly created Declarative Agents now understand referenced scanned PDFs

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:09 Z

Any newly created Declarative Agents can now reliably ground answers in scanned PDFs and image-based documents referenced from SharePoint, unlocking a major class of enterprise content that was previously hard to use in agent scenarios.
GA date: February CY2026

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive in GCC-L

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:09 Z

Microsoft 365 Archive is designed to help organizations manage their inactive data efficiently. It allows you to move inactive SharePoint sites into a cold storage tier, which reduces storage costs while maintaining the same searchability, security, and compliance standards as active data. This feature is already available in Production and is now being released to GCC-L cloud.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support for refining query filters for Confluence Copilot connectors

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

This feature enhances and standardizes query filtering across both Confluence Cloud and Confluence On-premises connectors. For Confluence Cloud connector, it introduces simplified options to filter pages by page id, creation date/time and last update date/time, helping improve productivity and reduce human errors. For Confluence On-premises connector, it adds support for advanced CQL-based filtering, enabling more complex and flexible filtering scenarios.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Data source specific filters

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

We are introducing a dynamic filtering experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot search that empowers users to refine their results more precisely by leveraging data source-specific filters in the right rail. When a user selects a data source from the right rail, such as Outlook, SharePoint, Jira, or Copilot Chats, the interface dynamically presents a tailored set of filters specific to that source. These refiners allow users to narrow down results based on attributes unique to the selected data source, such as item type, status, or semantic labels.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Apps in Private Channels for Microsoft Teams

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot.

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

Outlook: Calendar mini-month non-consecutive date selection updates

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

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
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Agent-Level Controls for Pay-as-you-go

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

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
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

SharePoint: Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

When you select an item in OneDrive on the Web, the Copilot button appears, offering a range of actions you can perform on that item. The same feature and actions are coming to document library views in SharePoint and Teams.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:04 Z

Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management - Data Security Investigation integration

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

Microsoft Purview: Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Entra: ID Account Recovery

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:51 Z

Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery is an advanced authentication recovery mechanism that enables users to regain access to their organizational accounts when they've lost access to all registered authentication methods. Unlike traditional password reset capabilities, account recovery focuses on identity verification and trust re-establishment prior to replacement of authentication methods rather than simple credential recovery.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Protected Clipboard

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:15:10 Z

Admins shouldn’t have to choose between locking down copy/paste and risking data leaks. Protected Clipboard offers a smarter way for keeping sensitive data safe without disrupting user workflows. Leveraging Purview DLP policies to define trusted boundaries across managed cloud apps. Data inside those admin defined boundaries can stay protected while external data can enter if needed. Granular control for admins. Seamless productivity for users.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-management-protected-clipboard
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Edge: Watermarking Protection

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:15:10 Z

Watermarking Protection in Microsoft Edge helps organizations visibly reinforce data protection policies by overlaying a persistent watermark on sensitive content viewed in the browser. This feature is designed to deter unauthorized sharing, support compliance efforts, and increase user awareness when handling confidential information.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-management-watermark-protection
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Copilot icon visibility

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Users can now manage the Copilot icon in their toolbar. To hide the icon, right-click the Copilot icon and select “Hide Copilot”. This will open Settings to toggle the icon’s visibility. Admins can control whether the Copilot icon shows in the toolbar using the Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled policy.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Edge: v.144 - Performance settings update and feature name changes

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Efficiency mode feature name will change to energy saver and efficiency mode for PC gaming name will be renamed PC gaming boost to better describe the feature benefits. The new names will be in browser performance settings after the update.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Admin units support for SharePoint Online

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:17 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Resizable Gallery in Teams Meetings

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

Resize the video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate icons for your agents using AI in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

A picture is worth a thousand words. Before, Microsoft 365 Copilot 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 Agent Builder. 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).
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention: DLP to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on emails with sensitivity labels

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:15:02 Z

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is extended to preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot from processing emails with sensitivity labels. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in emails as enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the labeled emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experiences.
GA date: September CY2025

SharePoint: eSignature - Free Text Field Support

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ camera controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:15:46 Z

If the camera is not currently auto-framing the room, in-room users can now control the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) of the active camera to keep the focus where they want it.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge can now send work related browsing history to Copilot for more relevant work results when searching on M365 Copilot search

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 Z

Microsoft Edge can now send IT admin selected work related browsing history to Copilot to improve search relevance. When a user searches for something on Copilot search, Copilot will also show results from browser history when relevant.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Lists in Context IQ

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Lists through the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat.
GA date: March CY2026

OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively.
GA date: February CY2026

OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

Outlook: Import support for data files in Outlook

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:15:21 Z

This feature adds support for importing PST files into Outlook for Mac. Support for OLM data files will include both importing and exporting data.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Agents

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

Enables users to schedule recurring prompts to declarative agents like Analyst, Idea Coach and more.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365: eSignature Smart Tagging for Electronically Signed Documents

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:15:40 Z

Documents that have been electronically signed will now be automatically recognized and tagged as “Signed” upon upload to SharePoint. This enhancement also applies retroactively as existing e-signed files will be updated with the appropriate tags. To give users more visibility and control, we’re introducing two optional metadata columns for document libraries: Electronically Signed – Indicates whether a document has been eSigned. Signature Provider – Displays the service used for the eSignature. This feature is available exclusively to tenants with eSignature enabled, helping streamline compliance tracking and document management.
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catchup on important emails in Copilot Chat

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

Copilot Chat helps you stay on top of your inbox by highlighting important and actionable emails such as messages from your manager, leadership, top collaborators, or emails containing tasks when you use prompts like “What’s hot in my inbox?” or “What were the important emails from last week?”
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Share apps from app bar via right click

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:00:02 Z

Allow users to right-click and share apps directly from the app icon on hover, while using the app.
GA date: November CY2025

Excel: Refresh queries from Authenticated Data Sources in Excel for the Web

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:16:17 Z

You can now refresh Power Query data from data sources that require authentication in Excel for the Web.

GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - New Permissions

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:47 Z

Adding new, more granular permissions for Viva Glint administration. These areas include Advanced Configuration, Nudges, General Settings, and Viva Integrations. Updating the name of the highest privileged role in Viva Glint to “Viva Glint Service Admin”, and for increased security, restricting the ability to assign new Viva Glint Service Admins to the MAC only.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge templates support for ServiceNow Knowledge Connector

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

Earlier ServiceNow Knowledge connector did not support ingestion of content for articles created using templates in ServiceNow. But now ServiceNow Knowledge connector supports ingestion of knowledge articles based on out-of-the-box templates like FAQ, How to, What is, etc. & even custom templates used by the customers in their organization.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Outlook: Collapsible Automatic Replies on Outlook for iOS

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Outlook: Collapsible Automatic Replies on Outlook for Android

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for Town Hall in Teams Rooms on Android

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

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. Note: An earlier listing incorrectly stated this feature applied to webinars as well. That experience is still in development and will be released later in 2026.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Policy Setting to Require Explicit Consent for Recording and Transcription in Teams 1:1 Calls

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:15:18 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Silent test call

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Doc library default labeling for SharePoint Online and Copilot

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

This new capability further integrates SharePoint Online with Purview sensitivity labeling. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a new type of default label on the library, which automatically applies that label to all unprotected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files within the library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization, enriches DLP and Copilot with signal to allow admins to monitor and restrict access to this content, and enables inheritance of sensitivity labels to output artifacts in Copilot. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365: Multi-Geo In-Region Routing

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:26 Z

Multi-Geo In-Region Routing (IRR) enables customers to control the routing of inbound emails. Using IRR, customers can set the geo-region that inbound mail should be routed to for specific Accepted Domains.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): When using Agent Mode in Word, you will be able to manually select which model to use

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:10 Z

Agent Mode in Word lets you choose from multiple models, giving you flexibility to select the right model for your task.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Select multiple messages to forward

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

You can now select up to five messages from a chat or channel and forward them together in one message—preserving both context and order.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Show customized message or hyperlink for multiple file toast

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management-Data Security Alert Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

SharePoint: Content Management Assessment (CMA)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:00:27 Z

The Content Management Assessment (CMA) helps tenant admins quickly evaluate site health, permissions, and lifecycle readiness—all in a single, actionable dashboard. It brings together multiple SAM reports, including Site Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Data Access Governance (DAG), and delivers clear, tailored recommendations to strengthen governance and prepare for Copilot onboarding. How it works: - CMA streamlines a process that was once manual and time-consuming: - CMA automatically runs backend APIs to generate reports such as SLM and DAG. - Results are presented in a clean, easy-to-read dashboard with actionable guidance. Preview highlights: - Clearer, more accessible UI - Refined tooltips and issue categories - Easier navigation across reports Getting started: 1. Open the SharePoint Admin Center. 2. Go to Advanced Management. 3. Select “Start a free content assessment.” 4. Review results and explore tailored recommendations. 5. Share your feedback to help shape future improvements.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:15:04 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:15:01 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through "Manage what attendees see"

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In “Manage what attendees see” users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration - Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:15:03 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025

Excel: Enable "View Side by Side" on Mac

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:00:49 Z

You can now quickly compare worksheets in the same workbook or in different workbooks by viewing them side by side with synchronous scrolling and reset window positioning on Mac.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager-Purview Compliance Manager integration with Microsoft Foundry for automated mapping of AI regulations and evaluation of Compliance controls for Foundry Agents

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

This feature in Purview Compliance Manager shall enable customers to automatically access the compliance posture of Agents created in AI Foundry. Customers can map Agents being created in AI Foundry to compliance regulations and assessments in Purview Compliance Manager and get to know the compliance status and improvement actions to be innovative and compliant.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups in GCC

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Compliance Manager - AI Powered Regulatory Templates

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent Ownership Reassignment

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

Admins can reassign ownership of shared agents created within the organization through tools such as Copilot Studio or the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. Once reassigned, the new owner will gain full edit and delete permissions, along with access to any files uploaded by the previous owner. The former owner will lose all access, including read rights. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Update Engage community cover photos in Teams for iOS

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Admins of communities in Viva Engage will be able to update their community cover photo from Teams for iOS. This is already currently supported on Teams for Android or Windows, Mac, on the web.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Search Engage conversations in Teams mobile

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:17 Z

Users will be able to search for Viva Engage conversations directly in the Viva Engage app for Teams.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Customize captions on Mobile

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:15:46 Z

Live captions are now available on mobile devices with enhanced customization options, making captions easier to read and follow during meetings. You can personalize your captions by adjusting the font color, caption background color, and caption height. These enhancements ensure captions remain accessible and comfortable, especially under varying lighting conditions or when you're on the go.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved Python-powered answers in Copilot in Excel

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:15:03 Z

Copilot in Excel now provides improved direct answers to your data analysis questions, using Python.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Community replies and reactions in Teams

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:15:04 Z

Users with the Viva Engage app in Teams will now receive notifications when others reply or react to their posts.
GA date: January CY2025

Outlook: Sort by flag

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Broadcast, Meetings and custom events with moderated feed, annoynmous posting on web & mobile

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:45:19 Z

Enhancing the Engage Events experience with additional capabilities such as Broadcast for large scale produced events, Meetings based Events. Organizers will have additional support for moderating the posted questions and conversations, and attendees can post questions anonymously. An Events Landing page allows for attendees and organizers to have one place for the contiguous events experience of "Before", "During" and "After"
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter and multilingual meeting experience

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken - no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting. Next, a new “preparing” status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot - your AI assistant in the GCCH environment

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:45:29 Z

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, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint, and Clipchamp.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - General Availability for the GCC High environment

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:15:34 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Memory and Personalization in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:15:02 Z

Copilot now uses chat history to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Import Non-M365 data into review set for modern eDiscovery

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Meeting Prepare from Up Next

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:45:03 Z

Get timely reminders in Outlook mobile to prepare for your meetings with Copilot. The Up Next card now offers a Prepare option so you can get ready with one tap.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: User Schema Enhancements - Delete Attributes

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:15:18 Z

Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:58 Z

Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:15:10 Z

When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document.
GA date: August CY2024

SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:15:45 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:15:16 Z

The Model Selector in Microsoft 365 Copilot 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, Quick response - answers right away, Think deeper - Thinks longer for better answers.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Join town halls and webinars as an attendee from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:00:27 Z

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android can now join Town Halls in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for Town Halls on the Teams desktop app. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [1.02] Generate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from agents built in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:15:41 Z

With Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can now use Office skills like generating PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, and Word documents by chatting with the agent. This helps users save time by completing commonly used tasks. These Office skills will come as a part of the "Generate documents, charts, and code" capability in Agent Builder (formerly known as Code Interpreter).
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Add a Partner to Viva Glint

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

This feature will simplify the process to onboard external resources (Partners) to your Viva Glint instance.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Entra: Conditional Access support for Entra ID Account Recovery

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:00:50 Z

Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery is an advanced authentication recovery mechanism that enables users to regain access to their organizational accounts when they've lost access to all registered authentication methods. This feature adds additional support for protecting the account recovery flow by enabling CA policies to be applied. Learn more
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot APIs TypeScript Client Libraries

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Developers: Pro-devs can use a JS SDK to call CCS APIs.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Updated UI for Microsoft Copilot Navigation Pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Teams

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:15:02 Z

We’re refreshing the Copilot Chat navigation pane to simplify the agents list and increase the visible chat history list beyond a user's five most recent chats with a more prominent chat history search UI.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Freshservice to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:00:30 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Fresh service to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Larger file upload support in Copilot Studio agent builder

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:16 Z

Copilot Studio agent builder in Microsoft 365 will support larger file uploads of up to 512 MB.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:15:13 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Auto-Archive for Exchange Online

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:28 Z

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Data Security Triage Agent in Data Loss Prevention

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

The Data Security Triage Agent creates an agent-managed alert queue that identifies and prioritizes the DLP and IRM alerts that pose the greatest risk to your organization. It delivers a summary and clear explanation for why each alert was prioritized, helping analysts focus on what matters most. For this GA release, we’re introducing expanded coverage (which also includes Endpoint DLP alerts as well as alerts that leverage Custom SITs (Sensitive Information Types)) and support for Entra Agent ID.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar Search in M365 Copilot Search

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:00:08 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

PowerPoint: Find and add company approved images with Brand Images.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

Browse your company’s approved logos, icons, and photos right inside PowerPoint—no need to search elsewhere. Stay on brand and compliant with easy access to your organization’s asset library and connected image sources.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Sharing Copilot Notebooks

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:15:03 Z

Users can share a Copilot Notebook they’ve created with others. All references, instructions, and context in the shared notebook will be accessible to collaborators, while your chats remain private.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Agent mode in Word enables conversational support to create, edit and refine document content from chat

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

Available for M365 users without a M365 Copilot license. From Chat, you can use natural language to generate and direct edits to new and existing documents, when in an Edit mode. In this mode, Copilot will ask clarifying questions if needed, and after making changes will recap actions take and recommended next steps. Changes to the document are supported with controls in the document canvas to review changes made.
GA date: February CY2026

Exchange: Message Trace - Custom Retention

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

We will be introducing customizable retention options for Message Trace logs. Organizations will be able to choose from a predefined set of retention periods.
GA date: December CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggested References in Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

Users can now quickly enrich their Copilot Notebook with relevant Suggested References based on recent user work activity.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recommended Notebooks in Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:00:49 Z

Users can quickly create new Copilot Notebooks via Recommended Notebooks based on recent user work activity.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Meeting Protection - Prevent Screen Capture

Mon, 05 May 2025 23:15:38 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity label grouping modernization

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:15:09 Z

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).
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot chats conversations

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

Copilot Conversations as Search Results: Users can now retrieve historical Copilot interaction, including chats from notebooks, agents, and the main Copilot chat interface, directly in the search results (SERP). Dedicated Data Source in Right Rail: A new entry labeled “Copilot Chats” appears in the right rail, allowing users to scope their search specifically to Copilot-generated content. Scoped Query Formulation (QF) Suggestions: When users select “Copilot Chats” as the active data source, the search box dynamically offers scoped QF suggestions tailored to that source. These suggestions help differentiate between session recall and prompt execution, aligning with user intent.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365: SMTP onboarding to App Role Based Access Control

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): App Navigation Pane Update

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app now has a simpler, cleaner navigation. Key updates include an expanded chat history, quick actions to create new Notebooks and Agents, and intuitive feature grouping so users can find what they need faster and unlock more AI value.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:15:45 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Name pronunciation

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:15:44 Z

You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues' name pronunciations.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bulk operations summary in the Teams admin center

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:15:45 Z

IT admins can monitor and track the status of all bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center, enabling large-scale management.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for Teams Phone devices in Teams admin center

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:15:31 Z

IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams Phones as company contacts.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Mail Merge (Advanced) on Outlook on the Web and new Outlook for Windows

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:15:03 Z

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
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Posture Management-Data Security Posture Agent in DSPM

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:13 Z

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Admin Control for Turning off People Skills

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story's narrative

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides.
GA date: November CY2025

Outlook: See progress when running rules manually in the new Outlook for Windows and Web

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

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
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft Defender for Office Tenant/Allow Block List for domains

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

Security and IT admins can increase domain-level control with the Tenant Allow/Block List feature in the Microsoft Defender portal to block domains for Microsoft Teams. This post was published previously with incorrect information and has been corrected. We apologize for the inconvenience.
GA date: December CY2025

Outlook: Unverified Senders- warn users about spoofing and impersonation attempts

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

When you receive messages from senders we weren't able to verify as safe, you'll see a tag in the message list and a ribbon on the reading pane warning you to be cautious when interacting with it.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium]

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Agents page

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared agents in the Agents page of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly from Agent inventory.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:23:13 Z

Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting.

GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention-Alert Classification Property for DLP Alerts on Purview Portal

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:00:08 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - On demand classification for files on Windows devices

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Weaponizable File Type Protection for Teams Chat and Channels

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:15:04 Z

Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Enterprise and Web Grounding for Draft with Copilot

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:15:03 Z

Draft with Copilot now has access to your enterprise data to help you craft high quality emails grounded in the right context. You will be able to review the sources used to generate your email draft before you send the mail.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:21:05 Z

Currently in public preview, 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. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:00:59 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: July CY2024

Microsoft Entra: Cross-tenant security group synchronization

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:15:39 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Customize AI-generated notes in meeting recap

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Users can now customize the AI-generated notes in meeting recap, instantly transforming meeting notes into the format that works best for each person. Choose from built-in options like Speaker Summary or Executive Summary to quickly surface the details that matter most. Users can even create and save their own custom templates with a simple prompt, so meeting notes always match the way each user prefers to work.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Message Warnings for Messages with Malicious URL in Teams

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

Messages in Teams that contain malicious URLs will now be automatically detected, and a warning will be displayed directly on the message.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Saved messages

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:15:44 Z

Quickly get back to important information without scrolling through long conversations. You can save messages, whether it is a post, a reply or chat message, and find them later in the Saved view in your Chat or Teams list. Click on a saved message to open the full conversation in the right pane, where you can review or reply directly.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery additional enhancements

Fri, 16 May 2025 22:15:06 Z

We are introducing a new set of enhancements to the modernized eDiscovery user interface aimed at improving both functionality and user experience. These updates include the ability to delete searches and direct exports; bulk add data sources and populate the custodian field for items in review sets and exports. We are also rolling out a tenant-level premium feature toggle to provide greater administrative control. Additionally, users will benefit from a new analytics process report and improvements to the search condition builder, which now supports logical operators such as AND, OR, and NEAR for more precise and flexible keyword queries, along with country and language selection for the query. The ability to configure the maximum export package size, with an updated default value to better support large-scale exports is also included.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:15:57 Z

The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:30:36 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Work from your recent prompts in Draft with Copilot

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

Based on what you're typing, Copilot in Word shows your most recent prompts, which you can use as-is or modify in Draft with Copilot.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Write a prompt for selected portions of text in Word

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:15:49 Z

Writing a prompt to draft content based on your selection no longer expands your selection to the entire paragraph, table, or list. You can prompt based on a single sentence or item.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Write a prompt for selected portions of text in Word

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:15:49 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:30:01 Z

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Triage agent in DLP is generally available worldwide

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:03 Z

Microsoft Teams: Tenant-Owned Domain Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:15:41 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video recap in Copilot Chat

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich Bing web answer cards on M365 Copilot

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:14 Z

M365 Copilot will be showing the rich and interactive Bing web answer cards like Weather, Stocks etc. to relevant queries to enrich the responses.
GA date: December CY2025

SharePoint: Sections with Copilot

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:00:54 Z

Sections with Copilot is a new SharePoint authoring tool that allows users to create full-fidelity SharePoint sections with just a prompt. It works by first looking at the context of your page to offer prompt suggestions for what content you need next to offer a starting point. Next, you either select one of those starting points or write your own and optionally ground in a relevant file. Once you click generate, Sections with Copilot then leverages the knowledge and content already inside of your organization and on your page to create rich sections that go beyond just image and text. This could mean meeting transcripts, recent documents, or any other knowledge Copilot has access to, added to an existing page with a click of a button. If the output section isn't quite right, you can then use AI refinement to make changes to both the content and layout of your section, without ever touching our traditional authoring tools. Some examples include "change the background image", "add John Smith's contact information", or "make the text more professional". You can also get different suggestions by clicking "regenerate" and then choosing your favorite one to refine further. With Sections with Copilot, you can create content faster than ever before, no matter your SharePoint skill level.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Call Waiting Beep Enabled on Desktop

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Call Waiting Beep is a feature designed to provide a subtle notification tone when a user is already on a call and a second call comes in. This gentle alert ensures the user is aware of the incoming call without being overly disruptive.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Font Search in Outlook for Android

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:15:49 Z

Users can now search for the name of font they want to use when composing an email on Outlook for Android.
GA date: January CY2026

Outlook: Font Search in Outlook for iOS

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:15:49 Z

Users can now search for the name of font they want to use when composing an email on Outlook for iOS.
GA date: January CY2026

Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

Users can manually select text and ask Copilot to help provide relevant information.
GA date: May CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 1)

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Forwarded Messages Links

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:15:41 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to video creation in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:15:02 Z

Quickly generate videos from a prompt, PowerPoint, PDF, or Word document with Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—now with transcript-based editing, custom media from OneDrive, natural voiceovers, brand color integration, and a redesigned scene structure for faster, more professional storytelling.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:15:09 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: User based alert aggregation

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:15:09 Z

Microsoft Viva: Glint - User Schema Enhancements - Custom Age and Tenure Derivations

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:00:27 Z

This feature enables Viva Glint admins to create and manage custom age and tenure derivations directly within the platform. It empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Immersive events in Microsoft Teams

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:16 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Use Primary work profile as default profile to open external links

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:15:52 Z

Following further review, this feature has returned to the development phase. We apologize for any inconvenience. Microsoft Edge currently opens external links using the “Last Used” profile by default. While for enterprise users, the Primary Work Profile (signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID for enrolling the device) is normally the best profile for opening external links. With this feature, for Windows, Edge will check if it the Primary Work Profile exists and make it the default profile for opening external links if available. For Mac and Linux, if only one work profile signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID account is found, it’s treated as the Primary Work Profile. Admins can config the policy “EdgeOpenExternalLinksWithPrimaryWorkProfileEnabled” to turn this feature off.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent Recap

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Full Submissions experience in GCC

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

We are bringing GCC admin and user submission experience to parity with WW capabilities.
GA date: July CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Introducing the New Republish Feature in Viva Amplify

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:15:26 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Optimized hover actions in the message list on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:46 Z

The hover actions in the message list will be modified to be more space efficient and minimize unnecessary mouse travel. This change primarily affects users with the multicolumn (wider) message list. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Publish analyst reports to Viva Insights App

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:30:49 Z

Viva Insights analysts will be able to publish reports they have created to specific recipients in the Viva Insights app.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) - CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:42:03 Z

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.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Assignment filters support for Apple declarative device management (DDM)

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

Admins can use assignment filters when targeting Apple DDM policies.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit a Page using Copilot Chat on Mobile

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:45:06 Z

Mobile users can now use Copilot Chat to edit Pages.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:15:16 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.142 - Tab Search

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:15:34 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Metadata Field Enhancements in Process Reporting

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

Introducing enhancements to metadata reporting in item.csv exports and Add To Review set CSVs, including new fields such as error details, isEncrypted, and sensitivity label. These updates provide clearer, more detailed insights into items processed during export and review workflows.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Graph APIs for Standard eDiscovery Cases

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:15:40 Z

Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Continue editing in Outlook from Copilot Chat

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

When Copilot detects that you're trying to write an email—like saying “Draft an email to my team thanking them for their hard work on Project K”—you’ll see an “Edit in Outlook” button. The 'Edit in Outlook button will open a draft in Outlook, with the subject, message, and recipients filled in, so you can review and send it with ease.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 in Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:00:43 Z

Create GPT-5-powered agents using Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Support for click through rate metric in Amplify reporting

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:30:52 Z

This release will enhance Amplify reporting by adding click through rate metric. A new card will show the percentage of unique users who clicked on a link from the publication, providing insights into user engagement with the campaign.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Audience breakdown tooltip

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:15:07 Z

Amplify reports will provide a breakdown of the channels shown in the Unique viewers card. The tool tip will show the top 5 channel audiences and their contribution to the overall numbers for each publication channel presented in the report.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can manage access more precisely with support for nested permissions in Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:38 Z

Support for hierarchical ACLs for SNOW, Confluence, Jira connectors.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Library in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

Library is a central, visual-first space in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app where users can easily access their Copilot-generated content like images and pages – as well as Copilot-generated content shared with them.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat - Session Persistence Enhancement

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:02 Z

This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

The new page in the Pro Management portal provides proactive recommendations based on your organization’s environment and upcoming events that can impact devices, such as support or certification expirations. Admins are prompted to update device and account data enabling rich insights from the portal, and guidance based on space and device usage data is coming soon. This feature helps admins maintain smooth operations and plan and budget efficiently. At least one Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Devices license is required for access.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: User reporting for incorrectly identified security concerns

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:15:49 Z

Microsoft Teams now allows users to report messages they believe were incorrectly flagged as security concerns. This feature is available in one-on-one chats, group and meeting chats, as well as public and private channels.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Collaborate using Pages in Channels

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:02 Z

We are bringing Pages to your Teams Channel experience. Create and collaborate using Pages directly in any of your channels.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Malicious URL Protection for Teams Chat and Channels

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:15:04 Z

Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increasing protection against malware attacks.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - IRM alerts in XDR

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:30:50 Z

With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files.

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:45:19 Z

This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds)

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:05:14 Z

GA date: September CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:05:12 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: December CY2023

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Shortcuts for Pages on Mobile

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:16:00 Z

Mobile users can utilize Copilot Shortcuts with suggested prompts to edit a Page.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Communication Compliance- Alert improvements

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:16:00 Z

Communication Compliance is improving the capabilities and customization of policy alerts. Admins will be able to customize the alert frequency per policy as well as adjust the email alerts frequency and recipients within the policy creation wizard. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (for example 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 ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Recovery Lock management for macOS

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via macOS native experience

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - M365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:00:59 Z

Insights on M365 Copilot Chat adoption for users not licensed for M365 Copilot. Insights will include usage trends over time, adoption by group, retention, and app level breakdowns. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover adoption patterns. Admins can disable M365 Copilot Chat insights in Microsoft Admin Center.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

The template feature in the new Outlook allows users to create and save email templates for quick and consistent communication, streamlining the process of sending repetitive messages. Additionally, it allows for the seamless import of templates saved as .oft files. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: October CY2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Protect PDF with password

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:15:26 Z

SharePoint and OneDrive users can now secure their PDF files by adding protection that restricts unauthorized access through OneDrive Web. This feature allows you to set an open password, which is required to access the PDF, or an owner password, which sets permissions for actions such as printing or editing the document. This ensures your files remain secure and only accessible to authorized individuals
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: M365 Agent Access Insights for SharePoint and OneDrive sites

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

Rich insights on agents accessing content in SharePoint and OneDrive sites as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Control External Access by Domain for Specific Users and Groups

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:15:49 Z

Gain granular control over external communication. By setting custom External Access policies, you can define domain allow/deny lists and assign them to specific users or groups - capabilities that were previously tenant-wide only ("Teams and Skype for Business users in external organizations"). Use this to pilot with a department, restrict high‑risk roles to approved partners, or open federation broadly where appropriate. Example: Allow Group A to communicate only with a specific domain, while Group B can communicate with all external domains.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management- Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete content on OneDrive and SharePoint Online

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:30:36 Z

We’re introducing a new capability in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention policies and delete content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online before the hold or retention policy duration expires. This feature helps organizations manage Copilot-related artifacts—such as Teams recordings and transcripts—independently of OneDrive retention polices, so organizations can decide how long they want to keep and when to delete this content. The feature includes support for simulation testing, audit, and disposition reviews, and introduces admin policy authoring flows. These flows are governed by Microsoft Purview role groups to enable the creation and enforcement of defensible deletion policies. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Azure AI Search honors Purview labels and policies

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:15:23 Z

Azure AI Search now ingests Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and enforces corresponding protection policies through built-in indexers (SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, ADLS Gen2). This enables secure, policy-aligned search over enterprise data, enabling agentic RAG scenarios where only authorized documents are returned or sent to LLMs, preventing data oversharing and aligning with enterprise data protection standards.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

SharePoint: Signed Adobe & Docusign documents saved to the originating folder

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:00:43 Z

Documents signed via Adobe or DocuSign eSignature, when initiated through the SharePoint eSignature platform, will now be saved in the originating SharePoint folder instead of the default Apps folder. The originating folder is the folder where the starting document was located at the point of eSignature request initiation.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to channel agents

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

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.
More info: https://aka.ms/peopleconnectors
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Excel: Python in Excel for the web (GCC)

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:04 Z

After further review, we need to roll this back. We apologize for any inconvenience. Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature release, eligible users with access to Excel for the web 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.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Entra: ID Account Recovery

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:57 Z

Self-Serv Account Recovery for tenants using Passkey.Account Recovery from Total Loss using Verified ID with Face Check
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Forms: Enable Sensitivity Labels

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Copilot Notebooks are now available to 13-17 year-old users with Entra ID accounts

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

"Copilot Notebooks will be available to 13-17 year-old users (students) with Entra ID accounts within the Microsoft 365 Copilot and OneNote apps.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for DoD

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:15:55 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for GCC-M

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:15:55 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Suggested contacts for call transfers on Teams phone devices

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

With this feature, you can reduce clicks and save time with intelligent call transfer suggestions based on your recent activity and call history on Teams phone devices.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Custom ringtone behavior and ringtones for assigned line keys

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Personalize your Teams phone experience by setting unique ringtones and choosing how each line key alerts you—ring only, ring with flash, or flash only. This feature is supported across touch, non-touch, and sidecar devices, giving you full control over how you stay notified
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Line key support for shared line and call transfers

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

This feature will enable you to assign shared lines to a line key and view the boss and delegates of the line along with their presence on Teams Phone devices with touch screens. This feature allows delegates to pick up calls on behalf of the boss by pressing the line key and join active calls. Additionally, users will be able to assign the transfer action to the line key, enabling them to transfer active calls by simply pressing that line key.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Investigations

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:45:15 Z

Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations empowers data security teams to find and mitigate data risk from sensitive data exposure using generative AI-powered deep content analysis enriched with activity signals.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:53 Z

This roadmap was updated to launched by mistake. We apologize the inconvenience. This feature allows you to configure custom contacts and speed dial on the line key of touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. It enables you to swiftly access frequently dialed numbers and contacts, incorporating one-touch/press dialing and effortless management of contact lists on touch devices.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Adding and editing external contacts

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:53 Z

With this feature, users will now be able to add and edit external contacts from Teams phone devices.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:09:27 Z

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.

GA date: November CY2026
Preview date: October CY2026

SharePoint: Page Agent

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

SharePoint: Advanced Page Analytics

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

SharePoint page analytics will add enhanced reporting capabilities including long-term data, distribution channel filtering, and reactions and promotions, data exports.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your Command Center for AI Success

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:24 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Agent & bot support for Entra authentication in group chats

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

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).
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Security and Compliance information for more Apps and Agents

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view security and compliance data for apps and agents that are Microsoft 365 certified or publisher attested.This enhancement expands that visibility to include apps and agents that are not certified or attested.Where available, this data is sourced from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) and helps admins more easily and quickly evaluate whether an app or agent meets their organization’s trust requirements.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Android

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:15:46 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Personal email triggers

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:15:46 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Emoji Reactions Workflows

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:15:27 Z

Seamlessly set up workflows started by emoji reactions in Teams. When a user reacts to a message with an emoji, the workflow will be kicked off to handle support tickets or start a helpdesk workflow.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Outlook: Expand and collapse folders when moving emails

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:00:44 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Doc library default labeling for SharePoint Online and Copilot

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:15:55 Z

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Semantic Goodbye word for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

SharePoint: Get relevant information from Lists in Knowledge Agent

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

Users will be able to find relevant information, matching items and get answers from Microsoft Lists using Knowledge Agent.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Data Security Investigations – Introducing integration with Data Security Posture Management and deepening integration with Defender XDR, Insider Risk Management

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplified Agent Creation experience

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:15:10 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Multilingual Support in Copilot for Viva Glint

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agent Mode in Word for Enhanced document editing

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:00:15 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Channel agent to 3P MCP tool orchestration in Teams channels

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Users can search for their settings in the Teams settings app

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

Within the Teams Settings app, we are now allowing the user to search for their desired setting through the search text box.
GA date: November CY2025

Outlook: File tab in Ribbon

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:02 Z

The File tab provides new Outlook users with the ability to easily discover account info, settings, PSTs, and more directly from the ribbon. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Storyline & Post Enhancements, Cover Photos, Drafts, AMAs, and More

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:15:46 Z

Over the course of the next few months, you’ll see a set of updates that make it easier to create, manage, and personalize posts in Viva Engage. These include Storyline cover photos and featured posts to further customize your Storyline page, the ability to draft and schedule posts in advance, support for AMAs, and the ability for a delegate to post-on-behalf-of on Storyline. Whether you're a communicator, leader, or team member, these features will help you engage your audience with greater clarity and customizations.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Preview of multiple camera view in Teams Rooms on Windows

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:00:15 Z

When multiple camera views are enabled in Teams Rooms on Windows, the preview video on the front-of-room display and the camera settings dialog will show multiple camera views. This feature allows in-room users to be aware of all camera streams that are simultaneously streaming to remote users. This feature is available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Forward as attachment emails in a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 forward as an attachment emails in a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Read-only access to calendars within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 browse and read calendars and events within a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Microsoft 365 Copilot for GCC Moderate

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:15:07 Z

We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, and user-level activity insights (anonymized by default). #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft To Do: Microsoft To Do availability in Outlook on the web

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:30:14 Z

Microsoft To Do will be available from the Outlook on the web app launcher. To Do will replace the tasks module currently available. After this change, you will see To Do in the app launcher instead of tasks.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Additional formatting options in Outlook for iOS and Android

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:45:33 Z

In response to feedback from you, our customers, we are adding support for even more formatting options when composing in Outlook for iOS or Android! You will be able to choose font size, set a default font, as well as clearing and painting formatting.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:53:12 Z

After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Show remote machine information on File Copy to Remote Desktop

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:15:08 Z

Admin should be able to see destination machine information when end-user copy a sensitive file to a remote machine through RDP.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Communication Compliance-Timeline view of user activity

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:15:42 Z

This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user's potentially risky interactions. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user's history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Inline discovery of sensitive data shared over the network

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: External benchmarks in Advanced Insights

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:30:01 Z

External benchmarks provide Insights analysts with helpful reference points to illustrate what "normal" looks like across other companies with similar size or industry profiles, to help users interpret their company's own Insights results. External benchmarks will be available to analyst users in Advanced Insights as a new page in the Copilot Headlines Power BI report.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Headlines report in Advanced Insights

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:30:01 Z

Insights analysts and leaders are interested in finding highlights and opportunities in their Copilot adoption data, but it can be time-consuming to find the groups that are experiencing dramatic trends or have much higher or lower Copilot usage than expected. Copilot Headlines shows an analyst where interesting things are happening in their data by automatically scanning a query and looking for outliers, changes over time, and differences from dynamic internal benchmarks. Analysts receive the headlines in a Power BI report as a table, along with supporting visualizations to help explore and validate the results.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:15:06 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Availability Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New configuration option in Collection Policies for targeted detection of Enterprise AI app interactions

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work context suggestions in Copilot Chat ContextIQ menu

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:45:24 Z

Copilot Chat will suggest prompts and work context you have access to as you type in the prompt, helping you find relevant information for your conversations.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent for scheduled meetings in Teams Rooms

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:15:04 Z

You can take advantage of the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows or Android for real-time AI-generated notes, follow up items, and keeping everyone on time during scheduled meetings. Facilitator appears in the meeting chat and participants can toggle between notes, chat, and the agent. Available in rooms licensed for Teams Rooms Pro. Facilitator for ad-hoc meetings, invoked by QR code scan, is available in public preview.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Upcoming Update to Audit Records for Microsoft Purview Role Group Changes

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:15:01 Z

To improve clarity and transparency, we’re updating the audit data for events related to Microsoft Purview role group membership changes. This update affects audit events under the SecurityComplianceRBAC workload (RecordType 87), specifically for operations for GrantPermission, DeletePermission. While the audit schema remains unchanged, the PreExecutionMessage and PostExecutionMessage fields will be refined to better reflect the nature of the changes captured in the logs. Action Required: If your organization consumes these audit log events programmatically (e.g., via scripts or automation tools), please review and update your parsing logic to accommodate the enhanced message content. Rollout Timeline: This change will be rolled out starting in August. We recommend validating your systems against the updated message format as soon as it becomes available in your environment.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Collection policies impact on IRM

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs - Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by IRM policies Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Integration with Entra GSA Internet Access to enable sensitive file filtering at the network layer

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:15:09 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-tasking for Meetings

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:15:41 Z

Teams on iPad will now support a separate popout window for meetings, enhancing multi-tasking capabilities.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Android

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:15:48 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Outlook for Windows

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Classic Outlook for Windows will suggest meeting options based on your meeting details, helping you easily schedule meetings with optimized settings from within the scheduling form.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priority content support for Risky AI usage

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:45:12 Z

Microsoft Teams: Translated Intelligent meeting recap for multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium)

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:45:29 Z

Now, intelligent meeting recap supports multilingual meetings, ensuring you can easily catch up on key discussions even when multiple languages were spoken. After the meeting, your recap is automatically generated in the translation language you selected for live transcription and captions.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Streamlined Authentication process with OAuth for Connector Admins

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:04 Z

Effortless authentication, unified through OAuth — empowering Connector Admins to connect in just a few clicks. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Permission and Privilege level of Apps and Agents

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view the permissions requested by an app or agent—these permissions define what organizational data the app can access. This feature enhances that experience by showing the risk rating of each permission and the overall privilege level of the app or agent, helping admins better secure organizational data and make faster, more informed approval decisions.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: People count captured by Cloud IntelliFrame in the Pro Management portal reports

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Admins get enhanced visibility into room usage from Pro Management portal reports with detailed occupancy data captured by Cloud IntelliFrame during meetings. This insight helps IT more effectively plan and optimize meeting spaces, and is currently available for Teams Rooms on Windows licensed with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search based user RSVP status

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:14 Z

Users will be able to search for meetings based on Self RSVP and Others RSVP status in Copilot Chat. Example prompts for a user looking for their own RSVP status include: "Meetings I have accepted/declined/marked tentative for today" "Did I accept Project OKR review meeting" "List all events I have not RSVPed". Example prompts for a user looking for other individuals' RSVP status include: "List RSVP status of attendees for the review meeting" "Who all have accepted the next meeting?" "Will Sarah attend Project review meet?"
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Surveys Agent helps you build, run, and analyze surveys

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:15:36 Z

Surveys Agent is your expert companion in Microsoft 365 Copilot for building smarter surveys—start to finish. From crafting the survey, launching and collecting data, or analyzing results, Surveys Agent is there to guide you every step of the way. It’s like having a professional survey designer and data analyst at your fingertips—so you can focus on making confident, insight-driven decisions.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Email attachment summarization (Modern Attachments)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Users will be able to reason over additional attachment content, along with the email body, in Copilot Chat. Support will be extended to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, Text, Json and Xml files mentioned in the email as links (Modern Attachments).
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for the Copilot Chat Navigation Pane in Teams

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

The navigation pane has been repositioned from the right side to the left, offering a more intuitive layout. Despite the shift, it continues to host agents and conversation history, ensuring continuity in user experience. This redesign introduces new features, including access to the "All Conversations" page, which provides a comprehensive view of chat history. The change aims to enhance usability and streamline navigation within Copilot Chat.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Default Teams Calling global policy to enable users to transcribe or record calls

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:15:52 Z

We’re updating the default global calling policy for new tenants to allow users to transcribe or record calls. Previously, these settings were turned off by default in the host global policy. With this update, recording and transcription will be enabled by default in the global calling policy for new tenants and existing tenants who have not modified the host global policy. This change will not impact existing custom policies or modified global policies. After this rollout, recording and transcription services will be more accessible to users, allowing them to turn on and use recording and transcription as needed during Teams calls. Neither recording nor transcription will be automatically enabled in Teams calls. This update is designed to broaden access to AI-powered features like Calls Recap and Calling Copilot, enhancing the overall calling experience. It also brings calling policy defaults in line with Teams meetings policies, where recording and transcription are already enabled by default.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The chat experience now offers better search refinement on CIQ menu Files tab

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:15:07 Z

Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. Users will now be able to use File Type filters and People refiners to apply search criteria to get to relevant files faster in the CIQ menu.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Distribute from SharePoint

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

We are bringing Amplify capabilities to SharePoint. Soon, you will be able to share your Pages to multiple channels using Amplify without needing to navigate away from SharePoint. You will receive the in-depth Amplify reporting on these pages.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:43 Z

You will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments with Copilot in Outlook. The new feature will be available for Outlook Web, the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook Mobile, and the new Outlook for Mac. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced spell check with multi-language support

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:15:05 Z

Enhanced spell check will help ensure that your messages are clear and professional. When you type your message in the Teams compose box, any issue found will be marked. You can then choose to correct them from options suggested in a dropdown menu, ignore them or add to dictionary. With multi-language support, you can switch between up to three languages.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:15:55 Z

Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365: People Skills profile editing improvements

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:30:39 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search for meetings organized by a specific person

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:00:03 Z

: 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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Press and hold Win + C or Copilot key to activate voice on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:15:32 Z

Press and hold Win + C keys, or the dedicated Copilot key for applicable devices, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will activate voice. With voice, talk to Copilot like a personal assistant - interrupting and redirecting at any time to prepare for the workday, create documents, understand topics, and search for information. This shortcut to activate voice means you don't have to switch between screens to talk with Copilot. Enterprise-grade security and compliance are built in, so conversations stay private while productivity soars.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Built-in PDF reader powered by Adobe engine

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Capacity Pack Support for SharePoint Agent and Copilot Tuning in MAC

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:00:14 Z

To help organizations manage metered consumption costs for SharePoint Agents and Copilot Tuning, we are introducing support for Capacity Packs in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC). This feature allows global administrators to use prepaid message subscriptions before incurring pay-as-you-go (PAYG) charges. Each Capacity Pack provides 25,000 Copilot messages per month, which can be allocated to Copilot Chat environments via the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC). Once enabled, MAC will prioritize consumption from these prepaid packs and automatically switch to PAYG when the pack is exhausted. Admins can monitor usage in PPAC, including: • Total messages consumed • Remaining prepaid capacity • Message allocation per environment Key Benefits: • Streamlined billing setup in MAC • Reduced risk of overage charges • Automated environment provisioning for Copilot Chat • Improved cost visibility and governance
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention - Self-helper troubleshooting through Diagnostics page

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Admin should be able to troubleshoot device health and policy sync health through Diagnostics page.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Skills landscape report for organizations

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC High

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP: - App or App Group Restriction support for Edge browser

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:15:44 Z

Previously, Purview Admins could not restrict Edge browser access to sensitive files through Restricted apps or app groups. With this feature, apps or app groups can be configured to be blocked in Edge, including a message showing policy violation info.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Support for inline videos and GIFs in articles

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:15:09 Z

This adds support for inline videos and GIFs in Viva Engage articles.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:26 Z

Easily customize your visual content with built-in controls to select your preferred style, choose your visual format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image and with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your brand kit.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:26 Z

Easily customize your prompt output with built-in controls to select your preferred style and choose the format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your organization brand kit to create on-brand content without manually uploading assets and describing your style.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Engage Frequent Contributor Analytics

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Updating analytics related to frequent contributors to include more metrics and an enhanced design.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing available for Gov clouds

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Speed Up App Reviews with Trust-Based Filters

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:00:53 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:16 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admin control for org-wide agent sharing

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:00:11 Z

Admins can manage who can create org-wide agent sharing links for agents built in Copilot Studio Agent Builder for improved governance and flexibility of agent sharing. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Support for multiple camera views and IntelliFrame from Teams Rooms on Windows in Teams webinar and structured meetings

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:15:46 Z

Multiple camera views and IntelliFrame (Multi-stream and cloud) from Teams Rooms on Windows are now available in Teams webinar and structured meetings with "Manage what attendees see" enabled. Organizers and presenters of these meetings can access intelligent camera views and bring them on the live stage for attendees. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame support on Teams Rooms on Android

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:15:46 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Countdown Timer for Teams Meetings

Fri, 30 May 2025 22:00:38 Z

Manage time and streamline meeting discussions with the new countdown timer for Teams meetings, a tool designed to keep meetings efficient and on schedule. Any user can easily add a timer of any duration to the meeting (up to 100 minutes), which will appear in the meeting window for all participants with controls to start, stop, pause, and add more time. Colors automatically change as the timer gets closer to zero to help keep the speaker on track.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP Mac device management support for additional MDM solutions

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:45:17 Z

Endpoint DLP is extending support to Mac devices managed by additional third party MDM solutions other than the currently supported JAMF or Intune.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive file-level archiving

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

This introduces archiving at the file level for Microsoft 365 Archive.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Adobe Experience Manager Assets to retrieve marketing and creative assets with Copilot Connector

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Adobe Experience Manager Assets to retrieve marketing and creative assets with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users can create agents scoped on Custom connector containers

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

1. Makers can now scope their data in their agent created on custom connector data at a particular container. 2. These containers will be defined during creation/updating of the custom connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): User can use Hubspot Connector in Researcher

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:10 Z

The HubSpot connector allows users using the Researcher agent to be able to leverage 3rd party information from HubSpot to enrich generated responses with relevant information.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit logs for agent management in Microsoft 365 admin center

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:00:20 Z

Track and audit agent-related admin actions in Microsoft 365 admin center via Purview unified audit logs. This feature enables visibility into agent configuration changes—such as publishing, blocking, updating, or removing agents. Integrated with Purview’s audit search and reporting tools, it helps organizations meet regulatory standards and maintain oversight of agent management.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Detection of True file type in EXO DLP

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

Traditionally, Exchange has relied solely on the file extension (e.g., .docx, .pdf) to identify the type of an attachment. However, this approach can be bypassed if a file is renamed with a misleading extension. To address this, we’re enhancing our detection logic to go beyond just the visible file extension. With this update, even if a file’s extension is altered, Exchange will evaluate the actual content of the file to determine its true type. This ensures that policies based on file type—such as “File extension is…”—remain effective and secure, even in cases of renamed or disguised attachments. This improvement provides customers with a more robust and reliable way to enforce compliance and security rules around file sharing.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Copilot Prompt Gallery in Data Security Posture Management

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

The Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Copilot Prompt Gallery is a curated collection of prompts and promptbooks created to help users engage more effectively with the Security Copilot experience in DSPM. It acts as a centralized hub where users can explore, search, and leverage prompts that streamline workflows and improve productivity. Designed to support a range of roles and use cases within Data Security, the Prompt Gallery is a powerful resource that enables users to quickly access relevant prompts, accelerate task completion, and unlock the full potential of the Copilot experience.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:15:57 Z

After further review, we will not be rolling this out to DoD. We apologize for any inconvenience. The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
GA date: July CY2025

Universal Print: audit logging

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

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.
GA date: July CY2026
Preview date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot edits on a Page are highlighted by default

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

When using Copilot to edit a Page, those changes will be highlighted by default, making it easier to review and confirm your edits.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved content freshness using Copilot connectors with webhooks-led notifications

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

Copilot connectors will offer improved content freshness with more frequent sync of updates using webhook event notifications. The following connectors are in scope - Azure DevOps, Jira cloud, Confluence cloud, Trello, Asana, Bitbucket, GitHub and Gitlab.
GA date: April CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved content freshness using Copilot connectors with webhooks-led notifications

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:11 Z

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced privacy and stability for live captions

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

To improve privacy, when transcription is off, captions will now show only the past five minutes of dialogue instead of the full meeting. If transcription is on, captions display the entire conversation, just like with live transcription. We’re also fixing an issue where changing the caption position could cause data loss—now, moving captions will not affect the text shown. These updates also apply to Real-time Text (RTT), ensuring a consistent and reliable experience.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Introducing Viva Engage Role Management APIs on Microsoft Graph

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:51 Z

We’re excited to announce that Viva Engage Role Management APIs in Microsoft Graph are releasing soon. These new APIs enable IT admins to programmatically manage Viva Engage-specific roles, including Corporate Communicator, Network Administrator and Verified Administrator. With these APIs, one can automate role assignments, retrieve role data, and streamline admin workflows across organization. Previously, roles such as Global Administrator, Yammer Administrator, and Knowledge Manager were already supported via Microsoft Graph through Entra. This update expands that capability to include all Viva Engage roles—bringing greater flexibility and control to your admin experience. The APIs are now available in beta version for allowing users to test and share their feedback as we prepare for the general availability.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.142 - Open external links in another profile when recommended by external applications

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:30:43 Z

When Microsoft Edge is set as the default browser to open external links from applications, Microsoft Edge must determine which profile to open the links. Users can control which profile to use through the “Default profile for external links” setting. Applications such as Microsoft Teams or Outlook can also recommend a profile for the links. Currently, the user setting is prioritized over application recommendations. With this feature, the application recommended profile is given priority, instead of the profile selected in the setting. Admins can control the availability of the feature using the “EdgeOpenExternalLinksWithAppSpecifiedProfile” policy.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Built in Admin role support

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

Microsoft Places will deliver built in admin roles to help delegate to day-to-day management of Places. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places Support to GCCH and DoD

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:00:46 Z

"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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection - Support for Cross Cloud Protected Files

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

This feature will enable customers working across cloud boundaries - worldwide cloud to GCC High or Microsoft 365 operated by 21-Vianet, to share files protected with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels. Recipients in the other cloud will be able to view, edit, print, and more based on rights assigned by the document owner.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher available in Copilot Notebooks

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Use Researcher without needing to leave your Copilot Notebook to conduct complex, multi-step research across your enterprise data sources using OpenAI’s deep researcher model with chain-of-thought based iterative reasoning.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Ability to Disagree with Microsoft submissions analysis

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

We are enabling the ability for SOC and admins to disagree with submission responses within the Submission experience and provide feedback to Microsoft on false negatives and false positives.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Shared mailbox access for emails in Copilot Chat

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

Users with shared mailbox access will be able to ground Copilot Chat conversations in shared mailboxes.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator

Thu, 09 May 2024 23:00:20 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

OneDrive: Sync admin reports - GCC

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:15:35 Z

We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:30:37 Z

Scope Copilot queries in emails for delegated mailboxes.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Computer Use in Researcher

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:15:04 Z

Researcher with Computer Use can securely interact with public, gated, and interactive web content using a virtual computer—enabling you to uncover deeper insights and generate richer reports all grounded in your work data and the web.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Viva Glint - Action Taking Analysis Report

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access Copilot Chat in your Microsoft 365 apps

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:00:45 Z

Easily access Copilot Chat from the side pane in your Microsoft 365 apps with a commercial Microsoft 365 license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:15:01 Z

Outlook: Auto-Export mailbox to PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 schedule an export of an entire mailbox (emails, calendars, and contacts) or a specific mailbox folder to a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Export mailbox to PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 export an entire mailbox (emails, calendars, and contacts) or a specific mailbox folder to a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:13:54 Z

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Remove users from closed survey

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Move conversation feature toggle

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Engage admins and network admins can change access to the move conversation feature with this new toggle. This feature helps customers manage how messages move across communities. When disabled, only admins, corporate communicators, community admins, and community experts can move conversations. When enabled (default), any user with access to a conversation can move it.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:15:40 Z

We are updating private channels to align with compliance model for all channels. After this change, compliance policies applied to the team (M365 Group) will apply to all channels in the team - across standard, private, and shared. Private channels will no longer need user level targeting of policies different from other channels, and private channel compliance messages will no longer be copied to user mailboxes, relying on a dedicated, internal mailbox per channel like shared channels. In addition, limits for private channels will be increased so each team can have more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit per team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels.
GA date: October CY2025

Planner: Information Barrier support in Planner

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Information Barrier (IB) support in Microsoft Planner will enable organizations to restrict access to plans and tasks based on user groups. IB will help prevent data leakage, enforce internal policies, and support regulatory mandates by limiting plan visibility and collaboration to authorized segments.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Regional Settings Separation

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Regional Settings Separation in Microsoft Teams is designed to give users full control over UI language, date, and time formats - either synced with their OS or set manually - for a seamless, globally personalized experience that also addresses common synchronization issues.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365: New Trust Center settings to block file opens using insecure protocols

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

New settings in Trust Center will allow users to restrict or allow file opens using FTP/HTTP protocols and fallback to FrontPage Remote Procedure Call (FPRPC) protocol.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Outlook: add attachments while offline in the new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

We are adding more functionality to offline mode in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to add attachments while drafting your email without an internet connection. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Folder Deletion Warning for Rules

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Outlook will show warning when you try to delete a folder that's used in a rule. This helps prevent accidental rule breakage and ensures your email flow remains uninterrupted. You'll be prompted to review or update affected rules before the folder is removed. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Folder Deletion Warning for Rules

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Outlook: Rule to display desktop alert

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Microsoft Teams: Browser support on Teams Rooms on Windows touch boards

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:15:20 Z

Teams Rooms on Windows-based touch boards, including the Surface Hub 3, now feature a private browsing mode with Microsoft Edge. This functionality allows users to access websites and line-of-business web applications on touch boards both during meetings and outside of them. IT administrators can manage browsing policies to ensure a secure and safe browsing experience.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exchange Data Loss Prevention - Image Metadata Scanning without OCR

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

With this important feature, Purview DLP will now scan and classify sensitive data embedded in image metadata, even if OCR is unavailable.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Outlook: Drag and drop files between accounts as attachments

Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

You will now be able to drag emails and files from one account and drop them in another account as attachments in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Multiple Emoji Reactions per message

Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

You can now react to messages and posts with multiple emojis per message, enhancing your ability to express a wide range of emotions effectively. Use combinations of emojis for a richer and more nuanced response, quickly conveying your feelings and thoughts, like agreement, urgency or sentiment, without extra replies—keeping discussions focused and efficient.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Configure auto-release for desks

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:00:36 Z

Admins can now configure desks so that users must check-in (within a configurable duration after desk reservation start time); if users do not check-in to the desk, the desk will auto-release and be made available for others to book. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365: Microsoft Places - Enhanced desk booking capabilities

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:00:36 Z

Microsoft 365 now offers the ability to book desks for durations smaller than whole day, book for multiple days at the same time, and delegates/EAs can book desks for their principals. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Find and book desks near colleagues

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

The refreshed desk booking experience allows users to find where their colleagues are planning to sit on a map and book a desk nearby. Each user is in control and can decide whether to share their desk booking information with others. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Book desks from maps

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

The refreshed desk booking experience supports desks configured individually or as part of a pool. It puts maps front and center, with support for fixtures, but continues to work without maps. The same experience will be accessible from the calendar (in New Outlook, Teams and OWA) and from the Places app (on the web, or as a Connected app in Teams and Outlook), and will adapt to mobile/small screens. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Change how Shared Mailboxes are displayed in the folder pane

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:45:24 Z

To conform with the behavior of classic Outlook for Windows, we are moving Shared Mailboxes to be displayed in the same way that Accounts are displayed and adding a Shared icon to give users a visual distinction between standard mailboxes and Shared Mailboxes. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Review set query report

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:45:58 Z

Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: LDAP directory support for S/MIME in New Outlook

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:15:26 Z

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
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] User can create agents scoped on specific item/ container using URL

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:15:26 Z

1. Maker can create agents by providing 3p URL. 2. Maker can provide either an item URL or a container level, for e.g. ADO ticket/ ADO area path.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [DevX] Compliance sensitivity labels for custom connectors

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:15:26 Z

Compliance sensitivity labels for custom connectors.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: New Scheduling and Event Creation Experience

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

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. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Outlook: Offline Support for Calendar - Create, Edit and Delete Event support for GCC-M

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in Outlook for Mac

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:41 Z

We will be adding declarative agents support in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in Outlook for Mac.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:15:19 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2026

Outlook: Support for Storing S/MIME Certificates in Contacts in New Outlook

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

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
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Connector for DataStax Now Available

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to DataStax with Copilot connectors to query insights from distributed databases.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Structured Data via Copilot Connectors for PostgreSQL

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to PostgreSQL with Copilot connectors to query structured data
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Integrates with Adobe Experience Manager

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to Adobe Experience Manager with Copilot connectors to query and summarize web content.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enable Microsoft 365 Copilot Integration with SharePoint Server

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

Customers can now connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to SharePoint Server with Copilot connectors to query and manage enterprise documents.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Windows Backup for organizations in Intune

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:49 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection-Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:15:02 Z

This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email inside content explorer.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection-Aggregate option in Export-ContentExplorerData cmdlet

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:15:02 Z

The Aggregate parameter switch returns the folder level aggregated numbers instead of returning details at the item level. You don't need to specify a value with this switch. Using this switch significantly reduces the export time. To download the items in a folder, run this cmdlet for specific folders. When you use this switch with the TagName, TagType and Workload parameters, the command returns the following information: SiteUlrs: OneDrive and SharePoint. UPNs: Exchange Online and Teams. The count of items stamped with that tag.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Mute a conversation from Teams for iOS & Android

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:14 Z

Engage network admins and corporate communicators can mute conversations to remove a thread from distribution in the home feed and in email digests directly from the Engage app in Teams for iOS & Android.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Updated Regional Benchmarks for employee feedback

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:15:48 Z

When users on iPhone and iPad choose the action to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file from a third party app (including Files) and choose Microsoft 365 Copilot as the target app, the file will be uploaded to chat. Users will then have the option to open a preview of the file or continue their conversation with Copilot Chat. 
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:00:02 Z

Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Intent Navigator in Data Security Posture Management

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

A user guidance feature designed to handle queries that fall outside supported data boundaries or capabilities. Instead of rejecting unsupported requests, it intelligently suggests alternatives by interpreting user intent and reformulating the query based on available parameters.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Automatic data preservation for high-risk users

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:45:36 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity label grouping modernization

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:15:09 Z

Universal Print: Scan with Universal Print

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2026
Preview date: July CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Trello to organize boards and cards with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Trello to organize boards and cards with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with PagerDuty to access escalation policies and on-call schedules with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with PagerDuty to access escalation policies and on-call schedules with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with 15Five to surface team priorities and recognition with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with 15Five to surface team priorities and recognition with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Tickets to triage and resolve customer issues with Copilot Connector

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Tickets to triage and resolve customer issues with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to OneDrive file browsing experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPad and iPhone

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Users on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPad and iPhone devices will be directed to the standalone OneDrive app for file browsing and management. While users can still access their most recent files and search for OneDrive content within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, advanced actions like folder navigation, permission settings, downloads, and deletions must be done in the OneDrive app.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:15:48 Z

When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user's file.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio Overview customization in Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Guide the content of an Audio Overview created for a Copilot Notebook through natural language input.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): On-Canvas Copilot and Private Preview in Shared Pages

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

After making changes to a shared page via chat or on-canvas Copilot, responses appear as private previews, showing content suggestions that you can edit and preview privately before applying them.
GA date: August CY2025

OneDrive: Transfer ownership of departing employees’ files with ease

Fri, 16 May 2025 22:15:06 Z

We’ve made it easier to manage files when employees leave—account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced “Move and keep sharing” feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during employee offboarding.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Select some text, and instantly get helpful options from Copilot

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:15:04 Z

The Copilot icon in your document margin gives you a variety of actions you can take on your selected text. One click lets you rewrite, get editorial coaching, and more.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:15:46 Z

IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions. Additionally, it provides visibility on recency of client versions. Administrators can now proactively view insights and address issues preventing users from automatically updating to the latest and most secure version of the Teams client.
GA date: April CY2025

Universal Print: Logs and alerts

Mon, 20 May 2024 23:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Microsoft 365 app: Add references to your Copilot Notebooks from the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Users can quickly add references to a Copilot Notebook through the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility][Search UX] Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:17 Z

Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Microsoft 365 Copilot - usage intensity

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:02 Z

To give organization administrators and adoption managers better visibility into usage intensity of Microsoft 365 Copilot , the Copilot usage report will be updated to include the tenant-wide count of prompts submitted in total and per-user average. The report will include a count of prompts submitted and the active usage days per user for the selected time period (anonymized by default).
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: App Deployment in Teams Admin Center

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:00:26 Z

We're introducing a new admin setting that replaces the Installed apps section in app setup policies, enabling more streamlined per-app deployment control. With controls to pre-install the app for : all users, specific users and groups, or no users.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Unified Exclusion list

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:16 Z

Unified Exclusion Lists in Copilot Analytics provide a single, streamlined way for admins to exclude users—both unlicensed and licensed—from all Viva Insights reports and Copilot Dashboard. This ensures consistent, privacy-compliant data control across the entire platform. Admins can manage exclusions easily through one list, simplifying configuration and safeguarding sensitive user data without impacting other organizational HR data.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Export download with pre-authorized link support

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

This update enhances the export download experience in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery by introducing support for both pre-authorized and non pre-authorized links. Pre-authorized links offer faster downloads and maintain session continuity for a specified duration. Non pre-authorized links require re-authentication after each connection loss and are needed for restricted environments that allow access only to limited Microsoft 365 IP ranges.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 1)

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:00:02 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:00:18 Z

Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:00:18 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:00:31 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot generates the new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:15:49 Z

Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat now offers meeting series selection on CIQ Menu

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:15:07 Z

Users will now be able to select meeting series and related instances from CIQ to submit as part of their prompts to Copilot Chat.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 23:15:43 Z

Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. When single clicking on an empty time slot on the calendar surface, the quick compose pop-up will no longer be shown - instead, you will be able to create an appointment by typing directly in the time slot on the calendar grid, just as you can in classic Outlook for Windows. There will be no change to double click behavior, the full compose form will still open as it does today. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town halls through ‘Manage what attendees see’ [Teams Premium]

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:15:02 Z

The enhanced “Manage what attendees see” experience enables organizers to take their Town hall presentations to the next level. Organizers and presenters can apply layouts, backgrounds, theme colors, and name tags to deliver events that are polished, professional, and highly engaging. This feature is available to organizers with a Teams Premium license.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Raise hands in Town Hall

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:02 Z

Currently in a Teams Town hall, attendees cannot raise their hands and share their microphone and camera as they can in a meeting. With this new update, town halls organized by users with Teams Premium will allow attendees to raise their hand like they would in a standard Teams meeting. The ability to raise a hand can signal to organizers and presenters, who can then bring attendees on screen to allow them to share their camera and microphone.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Delete survey cycles

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:15:28 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Noise Suppression for Dial-In Participants in Teams Audio Conferences

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:30:52 Z

Microsoft Teams will soon support noise suppression for dial-in participants. This feature automatically filters out background noise (e.g., traffic, typing) for users who join meetings via phone (PSTN). It enhances clarity and reduces distractions for all meeting participants. The feature will be rolled out gradually. However, if you'd like to enable it yourself, you will be able to do so via the Teams Admin Center: 1. Go to Meeting policy 2. Navigate to the Audio & video section 3. Set Noise suppression for dial-in participants to Enabled or programmatically with MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell by setting NoiseSuppressionForDialInParticipants setting inside of CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to "Enabled".
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Unified building and endpoint metadata for reporting

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

Teams Administrators can now use a single, unified process to upload and maintain the building and endpoint metadata that enriches calling and meeting reports. This new process replaces Reporting Labels and ensures that the building and endpoint information you upload is used in both Tenant Admin Center and Call Quality Dashboard.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OCR - Restrict OCR Scan to mails sent outside the organization

Fri, 30 May 2025 22:00:38 Z

The feature will allow you to do OCR for only those mails which are being sent outside the organization. Hence, by using this config, you will not be billed for any internal communications or any incoming mails coming from outside the org.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Include missing survey takers

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:17 Z

This feature enables a Glint Admin to create surveys for participants who were not originally included in a live survey. With this update, the admin can modify the distribution list within the survey program settings and generate surveys for the newly added participants.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: DoD support in Teams Rooms Pro Management

Fri, 09 May 2025 22:15:45 Z

Department of Defense (DoD) customer tenants now have access to the Teams Rooms Pro Management service and portal, enabling them to use the remote device management and analytics features of the solution while meeting high security and privacy standards.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Custom Instructions for draft with Copilot

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Give Copilot some instructions about your emails - like the tone, length, greeting - so your Copilot generated drafts sound more like you want them to. #newoutlookforwindow
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Slide control for presenters

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:45:14 Z

Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Forward as attachment emails in a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Outlook: Read-only access to calendars within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Multiple column layouts in email

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:30:41 Z

Viva Amplify authored email will support two column layouts.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for retroactive updates

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:15:26 Z

This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to retroactively update simpler attribute scenarios associated to surveys. This alternate provides a friendly user experience in a new wizard format - and as well as offering the option to perform the feature with zero file uploads.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Org Explorer in Outlook for Mac

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:30:02 Z

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will now also be available in Outlook for Mac.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:00:54 Z

Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms on Android

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:45:21 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint Metrics

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:15:18 Z

Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics that reflect Copilot Chat (Work and Web) activity across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These updates reflect the latest addition of Copilot Chat to these apps to help users transition seamlessly between workflows and will be displayed alongside existing app chat metrics for continuity. The updated metrics are available in the Copilot Dashboard, the M365 Copilot Adoption and Impact PBI reports, with additional query support for all chat prompt metrics.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Search for meetings

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

You can now search by meeting name or participant, take direct actions like joining, RSVPing, or viewing recaps, and access a dedicated Meetings tab for a streamlined experience. These updates make it easier to find and act on meetings right from the search bar.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: External tag in profile cards

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:00:46 Z

For users that are external to your organization, an "External" tag will be shown in the top part of their profile card.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:00:45 Z

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.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Report junk + block or unsubscribe in one same action

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

We’re making it easier to keep your inbox clean and under control. Now, when you report an email as junk, you’ll also have the option to unsubscribe—if that’s available. This helps stop unwanted messages at the source and keeps your blocked list from getting overloaded. If unsubscribing isn’t possible, you’ll still be able to block the sender to prevent future emails. This update gives you more control and a simpler way to manage unwanted messages.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town hall screen management privileges in Teams Rooms on Windows

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

When the Teams Room on Windows is a co-organizer or a presenter in a town hall, privileges can be granted to start or end the event, manage what attendees see, and promote attendees as presenters, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: June CY2025

SharePoint: Header & Footer Enhancements

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:00:33 Z

The site header and footer are key elements of the SharePoint user interface, playing a vital role in navigation, brand expression, and overall user experience. To better align with today’s design standards and customer expectations, we’re introducing a full visual upgrade of the SharePoint site header and footer. This upgrade delivers a more cohesive and contemporary look while offering new preset layouts and enhanced customization options. Organizations will be able to tailor these elements to better reflect their brand identity, improve usability, and create a more engaging, connected experience for employees.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Voice Applications Settings for Authorized Users in GCC High and DoD (Premium)

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Voice applications policies allow you to create and assign voice application policies to authorized users. Voice application policies control what configuration changes an authorized user can make to the auto attendants and call queues they're authorized for. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Add a presenter from the participant roster in a town hall or webinar

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:45:39 Z

Organizers and presenters can quickly add a missing presenter to an ongoing town hall or webinar by calling them directly from the participant roster. Once the missing presenter accepts the call, they instantly join as a presenter, automatically joining the Green Room (if enabled) and added to the event group chat.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: App ratings in in-context surfaces.

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:15:12 Z

Now users will be able to view ratings when they view apps within the in-context store in teams.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with lobby chat

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:15:18 Z

Now meeting organizers can send one-way messages to attendees in the lobby via the lobby chat. The Lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings, have more control over meetings with external participants, and external attendees are well informed about the meeting upon meeting start.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator Agent

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:15:44 Z

The Facilitator agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage your meetings effortlessly. Throughout the meeting, Facilitator takes notes that everyone can co-author, manages the time and agenda, and can quickly surface relevant information from the web or the conversation itself. Users can now use the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows for real-time notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings using AI. In hybrid meetings, the agent appears in the notes panel. For in-person meetings, a participant can scan the QR code on the display in the room to invoke the agent as the group's assistant.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New file extension for Copilot pages

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

We are introducing a new file extension for Copilot pages, ".page". This new file extension will continue to support admin toggles, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, multi-geo, Purview eDiscovery, version history, export, audit logs, and data subject requests. The functionality and support for the .page file extension will be identical to the existing .loop file extension, with the only difference being the file extension and the associated file icon. For a comprehensive list of features supported refer to: Summary table of admin management, governance, lifecycle, and compliance capabilities based on experience
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/loop/loop-compliance-summary?view=o365-worldwide#summary-table-of-admin-management-governance-lifecycle-and-compliance-capabilities-based-on-experience
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Edge: PDF Viewer Performance Improvement and Minor Visual Updates

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

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.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users will be able to upload files stored locally or in one drive to custom engine agents

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Users will be able to upload files stored locally or in one drive to custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [DevX] Schema enrichment & validation for custom connectors for better relevance & UX

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:52 Z

Schema enrichment & validation for custom connectors for better relevance & UX (Property descriptions, content Category attributes and additional semantic labels)
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025

Outlook: Send Button update

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

This feature reduces accidental message sends by moving the send button from the bottom of the compose view, in the compose toolbar to the header of the compose view. By moving the send button to a less crowded location, users can avoid accidental taps, resulting in a more intentional and error-free messaging experience.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Changes to case creation process in Purview portal when confirming alerts from Defender XDR portal and content retention periods in cases

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

With this release, alerts confirmed from the Defender XDR portal (security.microsoft.com) will not result in automatic case creation in the Purview portal. To create a case, Insider Risk Management analysts or investigators must manually click on the "Confirm all alerts & create case" button in the Purview portal from the alert that was previously confirmed through Defender XDR. When a case is created for a specific user based on the generated alert, related content such as online files and emails, is made available in the Content explorer tab. Additionally, any new content that generates or adds to an alert is included in the Content explorer for review during up to the 30 days from the creation of the Case. After these 30 days, new content identified for the user based on alerts will NOT be added to the Content explorer. To access new content, the existing case must be closed and a new Case created.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Outlook: Calendar support for copying, cutting, and pasting events and appointments

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:15:04 Z

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
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Account descriptions

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:00:37 Z

New Outlook users can now set custom descriptions for their accounts, making them easier to tell apart in the folder list and various lists and menus across the application. The description can be set in the account settings. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:15:49 Z

Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., 'What was the feedback per slide?'), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., 'Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.
GA date: August CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users can explore third-party content in Copilot chat with deep citations and side-by-side previews

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:45:29 Z

Drive Copilot chat engagement for 3P content via deep citations, inline citations, side by side preview experiences.
GA date: March CY2026

SharePoint: Document Libraries - A new forms experience for streamlined document collection

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Improved elevation detection

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:45:01 Z

This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: August CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:15:21 Z

With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

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.
GA date: September CY2026

Minecraft Education: Update v1.21.9

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:15:28 Z

The "Chase the Clouds" update for Minecraft Education, bringing the version to 1.21.9.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Backfill for SharePoint Sites

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

We are thrilled to announce a powerful new feature that allows tenant admins to select an existing SharePoint Online (SPO) site and backfill OCR for documents already present in the library. This means you no longer need to move all your documents to a new site to ensure they are OCRed and protected. We plan to release a private preview at end of May, if you would like to enable this feature please reach out the feature team and we will enable the feature on your tenant. Only files without OCR will be processed, ensuring efficient use of resources and preventing double charges for unchanged documents. This update streamlines your workflow, making it easier to manage and protect your documents.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI Apps and agents

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Apps and agents in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI apps enables administrators to view a dashboard of agents used across the organization and identify and manage any potential data security risks. Administrators can access detailed insights into sensitive data that specific agents have accessed and see how these agents are protected by Purview data security policies. The detailed agent view also indicates what policies are applied to the agent and provides the option for administrators to create a policy directly from this view to address any coverage gaps. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:45:29 Z

Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that's ready for you to review and send. When you click on "Schedule with Copilot" a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2025

SharePoint: Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extends support for Microsoft Office files

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:53 Z

SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to Microsoft Office files. Previously, OCR was limited to PDFs and images but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from any embedded images within any Microsoft Office files like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Analytics

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

New analytics experiences available that complement the new Viva Engage Events.
GA date: December CY2025

SharePoint: Optimizing Version History for lists and libraries

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:01 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Support for Historical Data Uploads in Organizational Data in Microsoft 365

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:15:03 Z

Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 now allows administrators to upload historical HR data manually via CSV files. A new toggle in the upload experience lets admins specify whether the data is current or historical. For historical uploads, admins can assign an effective date to the file, ensuring accurate ingestion and processing by downstream apps like Viva Insights. This update improves data consistency across M365 and Viva apps and supports retroactive updates for organizational reporting.
GA date: September CY2025

SharePoint: Metadata understanding in SharePoint agents

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

This update will allow agents grounded in SharePoint library contents to use and reason over available metadata to better distinguish between similar documents and provide higher-quality answers.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - General Availability for the DoD environment

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:15:23 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Copilot is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 DOD users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat designed for work, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements. This will help protect sensitive information which should not leave the DOD compliance boundary.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Harmful Content Protection Controls in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:45:03 Z

We’re introducing a new policy setting in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat that gives administrators enhanced control over how users interact with harmful content protection. This feature is designed to support specialized roles—such as legal, investigative, or moderation teams—where exposure to sensitive content may be necessary.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/harmful-content-protection-copilot-chat
GA date: September CY2025

PowerPoint: Refreshed Placeholders in PowerPoint on Desktop

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:04 Z

Placeholders in PowerPoint are getting refreshed to look more modern and provide clear guidance on the object that can be inserted. Image placeholders now allow you to pick from a variety of sources to insert an image. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are rolling this out early to resolve an issue that some customers were experiencing
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support for summarization of very long documents

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:00:08 Z

Copilot in Word can summarize documents up to about 1,500,000 words or 3,000 pages. This summary will be available on top of the document.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich artifacts in Copilot Pages

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:15:07 Z

You can now create rich artifacts, including interactive charts, tables, complex diagrams, and code created with Copilot from enterprise or web data. Artifacts can be added to Pages to further edit and refine with Copilot. They are interactive and stay in sync across Microsoft 365 when shared for collaborative work.
GA date: April CY2025

Word: Chat with Copilot about selected text

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:02 Z

Start a chat with Copilot while text in your document is selected, and Copilot's response will be scoped to what you have selected.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Seamless Search and Chat Integration

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

Microsoft 365 Chat brings the power of conversational AI directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, enabling users to move effortlessly from finding information to acting on it. Search results become the foundation for contextual chat, allowing you to ask follow-up questions, synthesize insights, and generate content—all in one unified experience. This integration reduces workflow fragmentation, accelerates decision-making, and delivers a more intuitive way to interact with your organization’s knowledge.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Launch the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app when using Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 apps

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:15:03 Z

When using the Copilot Chat side pane in Microsoft 365 apps, users will be able to launch the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app from a dedicated button. Additionally, accessing some features in the side pane will launch the full app.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Automatic Draft Minimize

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:00:26 Z

When users close a draft in progress, it automatically minimizes instead of closing completely. The minimized draft can now be quickly accessed via a button that appears in the message list.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat Navigation Pane in Outlook

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection- Scan existing files in SharePoint and OneDrive for business for sensitive information

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for business for sensitive data.
GA date: May CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Input Box on Copilot Chat

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:00:44 Z

Users will be able to expand the Input Box to a full screen view when they type long prompts with lengthy context or instructions. When users copy paste prompts from word editors the prompt box will maintain plain text formatting to sustain readability and review of the prompt.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:00:36 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enhancements to variant limits and detection groups

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:00:08 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Permission details for agents in MAC

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:00:02 Z

The new Unified Permissions Management feature gives admins a consistent view of all required applications and delegated permissions, along with their associated risk levels, enabling clearer understanding of consents. From the permissions tab, admins can now provide consent directly, and once granted by the Global Admin, the AI Admin Role can deploy agents. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Immersive Search

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

After completing a search in Outlook, a user will see a Copilot entry point that will take them to an LLM generated summary of their search query (emails, Teams messages and documents) within their Copilot side pane. They will be able to interact further with Copilot to dig deeper into these results and take action items accordingly.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

Following further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as "launched." The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced Copilot in Engage

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:15:26 Z

Copilot in Engage has now been integrated with M365,providing the same rich access to the M365 Graph, and helping you natively access Microsoft data in the flow of Engage. Alongside this update, you can expect improved AI-powered writing assistance that bring in email/chat/files data to help craft both the content and style of your message
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:00:40 Z

Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025

Outlook: Snooze, Pin and Ignore in the read pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:14 Z

Snooze, pin, and ignore actions are available in the read pop-out ribbon in Outlook for Web and Windows to improve triage efficiency and user control. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Editor (Proofing and Spellcheck) for GCC Mod

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Automatic spelling and grammar checking when composing an email message. Corrections are underlined on the draft, and clicking on them reveals suggested corrections. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:15:02 Z

Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. These capabilities will be available once Microsoft 365 Copilot is deployed. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat - Teams chats in ContextIQ

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

Users will be able to search for and select Teams chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in Copilot Chat.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Resource performance report for Windows physical PCs for GCCH

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

The resource performance scores and insights for physical devices are aimed to help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve the user experience while balancing hardware costs.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Add Search results as references to your Copilot Notebooks in the M365 Copilot app

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:02 Z

Users can quickly add a Search result as a reference to a Copilot Notebook within the M365 Copilot app.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Start writing, coding, and creating with Copilot in Pages

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:02 Z

Use the tools menu in Copilot Chat to co-create content or code with Copilot in a Page and share with others when ready.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Windows Quality Update management policies

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:02 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Viva: View and moderate private community content without being a member

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:00:11 Z

This feature enables verified admins and Engage admins to access and moderate private community conversations without needing to be members of those communities. Admins will also be able to manage community settings, ensuring better governance and oversight across Viva Engage.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: News AI audio briefing

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:51 Z

This feature provides an AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. It plays the 10 audio clips sequentially to help users catch up on top news in a hands free manner. This experience will be available in the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop and in the Viva Connections experience in the browser (Accessed from the main Viva home portal - viva.cloud.microsoft).
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Customization of app installs with Enterprise Application Management

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Script installer offers you a way to have more control and customization around Win32 (including in EAM catalog) app installations. You now have the option to use a PowerShell script in place of command line configurations to install your app.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Copilot Pages as a Word document

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Once a Copilot Chat user has finished researching, creating, and collecting content in Copilot Pages, they can take it to a Word document with the press of a button.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recap changes over more time

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

Recapping the changes you made in Loop is no longer limited to the current session. You can now recap changes that were made over a longer period of time.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Ideas Workspace Functions as a Shared Loop workspace

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

Loop Ideas workspaces are tenant-managed like SharePoint Communication sites. They appear with existing Loop workspaces, with all features such as adding members and organizing pages
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – New personal Loop workspace

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. All governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes apply the same way they would to a user's OneDrive.
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Loop available in Loop components in Teams and Outlook

Fri, 03 May 2024 22:15:09 Z

People with a Copilot License can now leverage Copilot in Loop when they paste Loop components into the Teams app, Outlook, and Meeting Notes.
GA date: May CY2024

Microsoft Loop: Copilot-assisted Loop Page Creation

Wed, 08 May 2024 23:45:39 Z

Collaborate with Copilot to go from a blank page to a structured document ready for collaboration as quickly as possible. Start from scratch or select an existing page or template as the starting point and Copilot can modify it for the task at hand.
GA date: July CY2024

Microsoft Edge: v.141 - Real-time video translation

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:15:41 Z

If you're learning a new language, or just like to watch foreign videos with subtitles in your preferred language, Microsoft Edge can help. With real-time video translation in Edge, you can watch videos in a different language with translated audio dub. Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, hardware configuration (minimum 12 GB RAM and 4-core CPU), region, and platform. Availability is limited to select markets. Admins can control availability to this feature using the LiveVideoTranslationEnabled policy.
More info: http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/edge/features/real-time-video-translation
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Prepurchase Capacity Packs for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

This feature integrates pre-purchased capacity packs into Microsoft 365 admin center for M365 Copilot Chat. Administrators can apply pre-purchased message capacity to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat before incurring pay-as-you-go charges. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Search

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:45:41 Z

Simple to use AI-powered enterprise search experience that quickly surfaces relevant information using work data you have access to.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Account Switcher for Copilot Tab

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:00:33 Z

You can now switch between accounts on the Copilot tab. Simply swipe left to open the the left-navigation and select from the list of supported accounts.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Graph API enhancements for better Relevance & UX

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:01 Z

Graph API for custom connectors will provide the options to configure icons, visibility, connection metadata, property descriptions and more semantic labels for improved relevance and UX.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune settings available in Catalog and Account Protection template for Adminless feature

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:15:49 Z

Adminless settings able to be configured in settings catalog and account protection template.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Additional granular RBAC controls to manage Antivirus, Firewall, BitLocker, and Endpoint Detection and Response endpoint security workloads

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:00:53 Z

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
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Copilot Chat (Web) in Teams & Outlook metrics

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:15:56 Z

Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics about their Copilot Chat (Web) usage in Teams and Outlook. These updates enable users to better understand both active usage and action counts in Teams and Outlook and will be available in the Copilot Dashboard, as well as with additional query support.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Support approvals can now be requested by non-primary users of a device.

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Websocket Support for Tunnel MAM (iOS)

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

WebSocket support for Tunnel enables secure, real-time communication for apps using WebSockets. It supports JavaScript WebSockets through web views but doesn't fully support iOS native APIs like NSWebSocket.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Live subtitles on voice chat in Copilot when using the quick composer

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:15:08 Z

Live subtitles for voice chats in Copilot will be available for users to help them follow the conversation when using the quick composer.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Live event using Teams Town hall in Viva Engage

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:00:59 Z

Community admins can now produce or stream their broadcasts using Teams Town hall, offering higher-quality production and enhanced functionality.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:15:39 Z

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Enhanced scope drilldown

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: March CY2026

Viva Engage - Export event posts

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

Organizers & co-organizers can now download all event questions (within the past 28 days) —including status, source, timestamps, upvotes and reactions—in a .csv file for easy filtering, analysis, and sharing. The option to export questions is available by default, if there is at least one question posted, on the event page.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town hall Organizer/Co-Organizer/Presenter Join as Attendee

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:15:05 Z

Event crew members will soon be able to join a live Town hall as an Attendee during the event to monitor the experience for viewers.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Studio agents report in Viva Insights analyst workbench

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:15:23 Z

Custom agent adoption metrics and insights report in Viva Insights analyst workbench. Scope includes custom agents created in Copilot Studio, insights are aggregated on the agent-level.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Realtime voice interactions in Word and PowerPoint

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

Use your voice to talk with Copilot, interact in-real time, and understand the content within your document or presentation.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Department Graph

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

New graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displaying the departments of users interacting with AI apps.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - New cmdlet for Content Explorer

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:15:54 Z

The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Data Loss Prevention: DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse, KQL, SQL, and Mirrored databases

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:15:50 Z

DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. In addition, DLP policy support will also extend to Fabric KQL databases, SQL databases and mirrored databases. Mirrored databases include Mirrored Azure Cosmos DB, Mirrored Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Mirrored Azure SQL Database, Mirrored Azure SQL Managed Instance, Mirrored database, Mirrored Snowflake, and Mirrored SQL Server Database.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: October CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility - Hebrew support in Agent builder

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

Hebrew support in Agent builder
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The Create Module in the M365 Copilot app

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

The creative hub for AI led artifact generation capabilities
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages module on Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

With the Copilot Pages module in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your mobile, you can now access all of your Pages in one place on the go.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Copilot Pages from Copilot Chat on your mobile phone

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

Create Copilot Pages on your mobile phone to continue working on the go. Pages shared in Microsoft 365 are interactive and automatically synchronized for seamless collaboration.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery - Share a prompt with a co-worker

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:15:23 Z

Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support large documents in Word Copilot

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

Support customers referencing large documents
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Ability to use the Graph connector selector when using Teams Toolkit

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

Developers using Teams Toolkit to author declarative agents can select specific Graph connectors to improve their knowledge grounding.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use Kiota as an API plugin generation tool

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:52 Z

Developers using Teams Toolkit and Kiota can use them together as an API plugin generation tool. This unlocks new scenarios like searching our repository of public APIs, visually selecting the main integration endpoints and improving the maintainability of existing plugins by using a workspace file and allowing full regeneration of plugin files.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility - Automatic project scaffolding in Teams Toolkit for building Graph connectors

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:15:46 Z

Developers can now leverage an automatic project scaffolding for Graph connector applications within the Teams Toolkit, allowing for the generation of a full production-ready Graph connector application from just an API description file, significantly reducing setup time and complexity.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Copilot Chat developer mode

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:15:38 Z

Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:15:38 Z

Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience for declarative agents and API plugins in Teams Toolkit.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:00:09 Z

The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover, acquire, and manage agents through in-app store in Word and PowerPoint

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:15:55 Z

With Copilot extensibility, users can discover, acquire, and manage agents through the unified store. We are excited to introduce the Microsoft 365 unified store to Office documents, enabling users to discover, acquire, and manage agents directly within the in-app store for Word and PowerPoint, with Excel support coming soon.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested users license assignment flow

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:15:31 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested user license assignment flow is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft 365: Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:15:02 Z

Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup enables administrators to configure backups by granular scopes—such as departments, geographic locations, or member firms—and manage pay-as-you-go charges across multiple Azure subscriptions. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), department-specific backup administrators can be assigned, ensuring management control, and tailored backup management aligned to organizational boundaries.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.140 - Improved Navigation to Extension Surfaces

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:15:32 Z

To improve visibility and discoverability, Microsoft Edge is introducing two navigation improvements for extensions. First, if a user has at least one enabled extension, the puzzle icon will be persistent on the toolbar. Second, from the Settings and more menu, the Extensions option will allow users to reach edge://extensions and the Edge Add-ons Store directly.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection: SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:30:32 Z

This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files in the target library. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the document library. Changes to user permissions on the document library are reflected on downloaded files, including full revocation for users removed from the document library. This provides a more centralized information worker-managed permission model that also offers revocation capabilities at a user level, rather than per-document.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard Scope Filter enhancements

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:45:33 Z

Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Authoritative content management for Microsoft 365 Copilot Search

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:15:43 Z

Specify and manage SharePoint sites deemed as authoritative content to enhance their relevance and ranking in Microsoft 365 Copilot Search. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, under Copilot > Search > Authoritative content, add and manage up to 100 SharePoint sites. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:15:52 Z

The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments. This update includes a UI refresh and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Apps, and Notebooks.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Unique Counting of EDM Matches

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

Providing a new mode to count EDM Matches where each row is counted once in addition to the current behavior where each primary element is counted once
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in GCC-M will able to use custom engine agents

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:15:27 Z

Users in GCC-M will be able to use custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:15:06 Z

Channel agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage projects. It can create status reports, send emails, schedule meetings, co-author documents, and answer questions. Channel agent understands context from meetings, chats, and files, and uses that knowledge to help you move work forward. It’s designed to save time, reduce manual effort, and make collaboration more intelligent.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Dedicated download option for tracking all registrations in Webinar

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

Event organizers can now download a distinct registration report (separate from an attendee list) from the Reports section of a Webinar, in order to have visibility and information about all registrants for a particular webinar instance.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Notification Settings

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

Admins can now enable/disable all learning-related notifications from a centralized settings page.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Find Text when reading email on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

The ability to find text when reading email on Outlook will be supported. This feature will bear resemblance to F4 on Outlook for Windows, or Ctrl+F in another apps. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Improved interaction in the subject header section on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

The subject header section that shows up at the top when reading an email will be improved. This includes the component that contains meeting information when looking at a meeting invitation and other similar components. The subject header section will be more sensitive to available space and allow for a more comfortable reading experience when on smaller screens or on displays with high scale factors. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in 'Manage what attendees see'

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:38 Z

Following further review, this feature started rolling out in July 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience. An enhancement to the 'Manage what attendees see' feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Control Settings for agents with actions in Teams Toolkit

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:15:44 Z

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
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft town hall and webinars from Teams Rooms on Windows

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows can now join town halls, webinars, and structured meetings in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for all events. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: May CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:15:53 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Occupancy status on Teams panels

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:15:43 Z

Teams panels can now smartly utilize signals from Teams Rooms devices or occupancy sensors paired with panels to indicate when a room is in use (e.g. LED glow), so you’re not surprised to find an available room is actually occupied.
GA date: April CY2025

Outlook: Quick steps in the pop-out ribbon

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:15:48 Z

Quick Steps are now integrated into the ribbon of email pop-out ribbon in the new Outlook for Windows and Web. Users can access and execute their configured Quick Steps directly while reading emails in separate windows. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Prepare for your meeting on-the-go with Copilot

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

Copilot can now help mobile users prepare for meetings on-the-go. Copilot quickly prepares you for meetings within minutes by summarizing key information such as summaries of meeting-related emails and documents, your specific actionable tasks, and a recap of the previous meeting. This helps ensure you are well-prepared upon arrival.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Use table of contents in PDF

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

OneDrive for the web and SharePoint Online can display a table of contents if it’s already in your PDF. You can select the line item in the table of contents to jump directly to the location of that item in the page.
GA date: July CY2025

Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Outlook: Sync folder order

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:15:52 Z

The order of folders in Outlook mobile will now sync to match the folder order on other Outlook apps.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: open attachments while offline in the new Outlook for Windows

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:15:57 Z

We are adding more functionality to offline mode in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to open and save attachments from your email without an internet connection. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD)

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:21:08 Z

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.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: February CY2022

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Ability to set a retention period for a policy

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:15:34 Z

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.

More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Adaptive policy scope

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:14:26 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:15:00 Z

Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enhanced Policy Conditions

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:30:55 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Recommended policy scope

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:02:20 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Policy insights

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:30:42 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Improved discovery of Copilot connector sources in Microsoft 365 Copilot (optionally add chat) with Content Source filter(s)

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:00:43 Z

Improved discovery of Copilot connector sources in Microsoft 365 Copilot (optionally add chat) with Content Source filter(s).
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [Search UX] Enable customization of icon & name for data sources in Search (& chat)

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:00:43 Z

Enable customization of icon & name for data sources in Search (& chat).
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Replace stock video footage with AI-Generated Images in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:00:43 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Preview changes before sending content live in 'Manage what attendees see'

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:00:02 Z

An enhancement to the 'Manage what attendees see' feature allows organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is going to be displayed on or off the screen before sending the changes live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Chat for Outlook iOS and Android

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:15:40 Z

On phone devices, users currently access Copilot Chat in Outlook Mobile via a tab at the bottom of their screen (or in Apps). Outlook is introducing a new Copilot Chat overlay experience, allowing users to chat with Copilot while continuing to interact with their email, calendar, and contacts. This overlay will be context-aware—understanding what the user is viewing—so users can ask Copilot about the content on their screen. Users with M365 Copilot licenses will also benefit from Copilot’s ability to draw on Microsoft 365 Graph to provide richer, more personalized responses.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Grid keyboard navigation in calendar month view via arrow keys in new Outlook for Windows and Web

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

When focused on the calendar grid, you will be able to navigate the time slots on the calendar via left/right/up/down arrow keys in month view. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Read-only access to contacts within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Outlook: Support for enhanced calendar-sharing architecture in the New Outlook for Windows and Web

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

This update improves the reliability of calendar sharing and ensures that the events seen by delegates are always up to date. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2026

Outlook: Updated conversation actions on Outlook for Android

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:15:18 Z

Currently, when viewing a message, you can access the available actions in the top-right corner. We are updating these actions to be at the bottom of the screen with the ability to customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:30:55 Z

With the new sync window, you can choose how many days' worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your Copilot-generated PowerPoint presentation outline via Pages in Chat

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:00:03 Z

You can now edit and collaborate on the presentation outline generated by Copilot in a Page before the PowerPoint deck is created.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can deploy and govern agents with MCP in the M365 admin center

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:00:03 Z

Admins can deploy, monitor, and manage agents built with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the M365 admin center for secure enterprise use.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Export Team Summary report in Viva Glint to editable PowerPoint slides

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Managers will be able to export default sections from the Team 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.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Town halls in DoD

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

Set up and host large scale events across a DoD organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:08:45 Z

This introduces 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 messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:30:17 Z

Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.

GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft 365: AI workflows in Teams Workflows app & SharePoint document libraries

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:15:06 Z

With AI workflows in the Workflows app for Teams & SharePoint document libraries, you can build custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Outlook: Auto-Export mailbox to PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Outlook: Export mailbox to PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Outlook: Choose save location when saving to a cloud account in the Outlook app for iOS and Android

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:15:49 Z

When you save a document to a cloud account, you will be able to browse through the folders of that account to find the place you would like to save your file.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:16:10 Z

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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.

GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: August CY2023

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Show more results in Copilot Chat

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

Users can ask for additional search results (emails, meetings, calendar, and files) during a multi-turn conversation by saying things like “show me more.” Copilot continues from where it left off, pulling in remaining relevant results to maintain context and improve accuracy.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users' devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agents in Copilot Chat available on Edge Sidebar

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:45:17 Z

Use agents in Copilot Chat on Edge Sidebar to simplify tasks.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced personalization with memory in Copilot

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot will improve memory in Copilot by increasing the relevance and quality of Copilot responses based on previous communications. This AI-powered capability improves the relevance and quality of Copilot responses by learning from previous communications. These memories are private to the user.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:15:52 Z

The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments. This update includes a UI refresh, a new icon, and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Notebooks, and Apps.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Improve discovery of Champion connector prompts for Users

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:00:20 Z

Improve discovery of Champion connector prompts - inline suggestive pre & post prompts, prompt library.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Configurate format, style, and duration of Audio Overviews in Copilot Notebooks

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Users can guide Copilot on the format (podcast-style with dual voices or a single voice), style, and duration while generating an Audio Overview of their Copilot Notebook.
GA date: August CY2025

SharePoint: eSignature - globally available

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:15:17 Z

Microsoft's native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from Word & PDF documents in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the documents leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft. This capability will be now be available in all markets with the exception of China, Indonesia and Türkiye.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Custom font and theme support for Viva Amplify

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:00:11 Z

Viva Amplify now supports custom themes and fonts published to Brand Center, empowering communicators to align their campaigns with brand identity and visual consistency across channels like Outlook and SharePoint.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Microsoft 365 Copilot search

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for search in Microsoft 365 Copilot. The report will include total search queries, average search queries per user, search usage trends, and per-user usage insights. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Pin agents in M365 Copilot Chat

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:17 Z

This feature enables AI administrators to pin specific agents in M365 Copilot Chat for all users in the tenant or defined users and groups, improving user accessibility to the most relevant and agents for their work. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: September CY2025

Whiteboard: Text Sizing Feature

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

The Text Sizing feature offers users the ability to: 1. Adjust Font Sizes: Increase or decrease font sizes as needed. 2. Preset Font Sizes: Choose from preset font sizes for convenience. 3. Custom Text Size: Input custom text sizes for enhanced clarity. This feature enhances readability, improves clarity, and establishes a structured visual hierarchy, ensuring well-organized and easily comprehensible content on the board.
GA date: April CY2025

Whiteboard: Sticky notes accelerator

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Sticky note accelerators will help users work faster in Whiteboard by simplifying adding sticky notes. With a single click, users can quickly add sticky notes, making brainstorming and collaboration seamless.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Copilot Chat - Usage intensity and new app coverage

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:00:02 Z

The Copilot Chat usage report will include metrics on prompts submitted and expanded coverage across new host applications. Admins will now see total and average prompt counts at both tenant and user levels, along with user activity insights such as active days and last activity dates. Additionally, the report introduces visibility into Copilot Chat usage within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—enabling better tracking of adoption and engagement across these core Microsoft 365 apps. All metrics focus on unlicensed users and support export functionality for further analysis. User-level information is anonymized by default. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Setting to pin M365 Copilot app to Windows taskbar

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:00:43 Z

This feature allows Global and Intune administrators to pin the M365 Copilot app to the Windows taskbar, providing users with easy access to M365 Copilot capabilities like Chat, Search, Agents, Notebooks and Create. This setting applies to all Intune-managed Windows 10 and 11 devices with the app installed. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: M365 Copilot Billing and usage - Budget limits

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

Admins can set up budget limits for Copilot Pay-as-you-go by defining billing policies scoped to departments or groups. These policies can be assigned to specific Copilot services, such as M365 Copilot Chat or SharePoint-based agents, and configured with budget thresholds and alerting rules. Email notification alerts (soft alerts) are supported, enabling proactive cost control. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights: Copilot Business Impact Report

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

A new Power BI report helping you explore the relationship between Copilot usage and KPIs from your business data. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: new scenarios enabling in Microsoft 365 Monitoring

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

Microsoft Entra monitoring in Microsoft 365 admin center’s Service Health Dashboard is updated with additional organization level monitoring. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web Search Query

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, AI interactions can be filtered to show interactions that contain a web search query and the contents of the web search query are shown. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI - M365 Copilot view

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on emails with sensitivity labels

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can easily manage orphaned agents with comprehensive lifecycle functionality

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

Admins will have the power to effectively manage the lifecycle of ownerless agents. They can easily filter, identify, block, or delete agents that are no longer associated with an owner, ensuring a streamlined and efficient workflow. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Scan cold files in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business for sensitive data and classify and/or label them accordingly. This includes files that have never been scanned or scanned in some time. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:43 Z

A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Data Loss Prevention- Gain DLP policy insights with Security Copilot

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:02 Z

Copilot for Security in DLP can summarize DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more. DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain deeper level view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Risky AI usage

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:15:43 Z

With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Data Lifecycle Management - Separation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:15:01 Z

Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Windows Backup for organizations in Intune

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:15:44 Z

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Endpoint Privilege Management Virtual Account Support

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

EPM will introduce a per-rule option to run elevated apps with the original user's identity context, preserving app data, save locations, and preferences. This offers a more personalized app runtime experience compared to the default virtual account.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Clipchamp video start page

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:00:21 Z

The Clipchamp start page new unified hub is a revamped video hub start page experience of a single video destination for creation, discovery & consumption.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

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.
GA date: April CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Operational dashboard to gain insight on EPM status and elevations.

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

The dashboard focuses EPM insights on rollout status as well as elevations in the environment and suggestions for new rules to create.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places Management portal

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Places Admins can use a user-friendly interface to manage their Places directory data such as create, view and edit buildings, floors, sections, rooms and desks. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Compliance to support Generative AI Applications

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:45:17 Z

Detection, processing and storage of interactions done on Enterprise AI and AI applications such as Security Copilot, Copilot Studio and others under Microsoft Purview Data Compliance solutions including Data Lifecycle Management, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance will begin using a pay-as-you-go pricing model on May 1 in preparation for general availability. Microsoft Purview Audit will only use pay-as-you-go pricing for audit logs related to non-Microsoft Enterprise AI and AI applications. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat data (with or without a Copilot license) will not be impacted by these new pay-as-you-go meters. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (for example 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 ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:30:02 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Intune: New enrollment policies experience for iOS/iPadOS ADE

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:30:25 Z

These enrollment policies for iOS/iPadOS contains enrollment time grouping, improved UI, and removes automatic deployment of the Company Portal app and deprecated settings.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Automated device enrollment without user affinity for visionOS and tvOS

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

Support for visionOS and tvOS through automated device enrollment for userless enrollment with Microsoft Intune Suite including Intune Plan 2
GA date: February CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:45:36 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:15:45 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: April CY2024

Outlook: Updated work hours and location experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:45:14 Z

This update brings a new look with the daily peek: click on your work location icon at the top of your calendar to change your work location, view who else will be in the office, or receive suggestions to help optimize your work day. This feature will come to the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Your work location will reflect across Microsoft 365, such as in Teams and your profile card. You can also update your location from Teams which will stay in sync with Outlook. We are also introducing a new location type, out-of-office, which will automatically sync with your out-of-office calendar appointments. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

Microsoft Edge: v.140 - HTTPS First Mode

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:00:11 Z

HTTPS-First Mode in Microsoft Edge automatically upgrades HTTP connections to HTTPS when possible. If a site doesn’t support HTTPS, Microsoft Edge shows a warning to highlight the security risk. This appears only for public sites—not private ones or manually entered HTTP URLs. Users can enable the warning in edge://settings and admins can control availability to this feature using the HttpsOnlyMode policy.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Email attachment summarization (Classic Attachments)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Now users will be able to reason over attached content along with the body of the email in Copilot Chat. Supported file types are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, Text, Json and Xml attached to the email (Classic Attachments).
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v. 140 - Tab Groups – Auto-Save and Easy Revisit

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

Microsoft Edge now automatically saves tab groups, making it easier than ever for users to pick up where they left off. Organized tab groups are preserved and ready to revisit anytime, whether a user is switching tasks or restarting the browser. Admins can control the availability of the feature using the “SyncTypesListDisabled” policy with the “openTabs” data type.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use ContextIQ file suggestions in Copilot Chat

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:00:45 Z

Instead of uploading a file, users can quickly include a file in their prompt as a reference by typing '/' and selecting one from the ContextIQ menu. This feature applies to users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (Copilot Chat users) and to users with a license (Microsoft 365 Copilot users) when they are toggled to web scope in chat.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365 Apps: Cloud Update

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:15:08 Z

The Cloud Update feature will transition to General Availability. Admins can manage monthly updates for Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise using our automation services.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/admin-center/cloud-update
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.140 - Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:15:17 Z

Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When a user navigates back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded. This can be managed through the AutoDiscardSleepingTabsEnabled policy. This policy will be enabled if the SleepingTabsEnabled policy is enabled.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for bulk custom access

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:20:56 Z

This feature enables Glint Admins to assign custom access to Surveys, Focus Areas, and Administration in bulk using Roles. Access can be tailored further by defining filter populations within the Role.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management: Data Security Investigations integration

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:15:55 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft Managed storage)

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:15:27 Z

With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage - the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, selecting storage in policy workflow.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Shared spaces insights in the Pro Management portal

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:15:20 Z

The new shared spaces insights page in the Pro Management portal provides IT with customized utilization insights, including time-series data visualizations, for shared spaces beginning with Teams Rooms. The feature uses calendar data and occupancy signals from Teams Rooms to track usage with filters for location, business hours, days of the week, and date ranges making it easy to see how spaces are being used. Future updates will include desk and BYOD room spaces. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro license.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot Support for 1:1 and Group Calls on Teams Phone Devices

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Enhance your calling experience with Copilot on Teams phones devices—access intelligent insights during calls using suggested prompts.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your AI assistant in the DoD environment

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot your AI assistant for work in the DoD 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, and Copilot Prompt Gallery.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Threads in channels

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:15:01 Z

Threads in channels allow you to start a side conversation within a channel and focus on specific topics while keeping the main conversation clutter-free. You can reply to specific messages and create a separate thread, helping to minimize distractions and foster better collaboration.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization in Edge for Business Context Menu

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce a Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat summarization menu item to our context menu. This feature will help users quickly unpack and ask questions about their open page.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages in Government Clouds

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

This brings the editable Copilot Pages feature which is already shipped WW to the government environment. The pages feature enables users to add their Microsoft 365 Copilot responses to a page where they can edit and share with others for collaboration. This happens right within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Pronoun Awareness in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:15:53 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon use pronouns from user profiles when responding, creating a more personalized interaction for users.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Diagnostics in the new portal

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

After further review, this feature needs to roll back. We apologize for any inconvenience. We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft 365: Multi-admin change notifications for Microsoft 365 Backup

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

Set of pre-defined administrators can be configured to receive email notifications for any potentially damaging changes to the backup settings or actions taken to ensure proper oversight of the tool in the organization.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Autopilot device preparation for Windows 365 Frontline shared general availability

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

Admins can use Windows Autopilot device preparation to provision their Windows 365 Frontline shared devices.
GA date: November CY2025

SharePoint: New Microsoft 365 Copilot Skills for SharePoint Administration

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

We’re excited to announce two new Copilot skills in the SharePoint Admin Center: 1. Step-by-Step Task Guidance Copilot can now walk you through the exact steps required to complete common admin tasks. Example: “How can I find sites that are potentially over-permissioned?” What to expect: Copilot will recommend clear, sequential instructions to guide you from start to finish. 2. Multi-Criteria Site Search Copilot can help you find sites using multiple conditions at once. Example: “Find sites that have been inactive for more than 60 days and are shared externally.” What to expect: Copilot will generate a filtered list of sites that meet your criteria and suggest recommended actions.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft 365: Backup Activity Logs

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:15:49 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Filtering Conversation History

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

We’re introducing a chat history filtering capability that empowers users to tailor their view of past conversations. This feature enables users to scope their chat history to a more relevant, workflow-aligned view, helping them quickly surface the chats that matters most. This enhancement is designed to support better context recall.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Compact Notification Size

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:30:36 Z

Users will now have the ability to change the size of Teams notifications. The compact size takes up less space on the user's screen and offers a clean, minimalist design.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Autoplay videos in Engage (Muted)

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Muted Autoplay for Videos in the Engage Feed. As you scroll, videos will start playing silently—captions on, sound just a click away. Admins can enable or disable the feature for their organization.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Monitor DNS resolution failures and impact of proxy on Teams meetings with Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center.

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

Teams administrators can use the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center for monitoring significant impact on meeting quality in their tenant due to DNS resolution failures or proxy (local or cloud).
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:15:45 Z

IT administrators will 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 Teams Admin Centre.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. This is an optional opt-in experience.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - New options for desk mode configuration

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

Desks can now be configured for different modes, depending on the immediate needs of the Places administrator; configurations can be changed at any time. Available desk modes include: Offline (the desk cannot be booked by anyone, also default for individual desks); Assigned (individual desks can be assigned to specific users); Bookable (the desk can be booked, subject to availability/available capacity and configured policies; and Walk-up (the desk can only be booked in person and requires the user to be physically present at the desk, subject to availability/available capacity and configured policies). #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Jump to a row in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

We're making it possible to jump to a row in the Message List by typing. For example, while sorted by "From", you'll be able to type "Philip" to jump to the first row where the sender is "Philip". #outlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Compress your PDF

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

OneDrive for Web now lets you reduce PDF file size with compress feature. You can choose from three different compression levels that best fit your needs.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Specify who has control of production tools in Teams Town hall

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:03 Z

Following further review, this feature started rolling out in July 2025. A new option in Town hall lets organizers designate who has control of production tools during the event. Organizers can select specific individuals who will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. Available on Teams desktop app and coming soon for Teams Rooms on Windows.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Detect sensitive content that's being shared in meetings (Premium)

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:45:17 Z

Screen content shared during a meeting is protected by detecting sensitive content and alerting the presenter and organizers when it appears.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows with Cloud IntelliFrame

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:15:04 Z

If facial recognition is enabled in organization policies and you've enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms on Windows using Cloud IntelliFrame will recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature available with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance (Premium)

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:15:04 Z

This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator—assigned by the compliance department—is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting, the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:15:04 Z

Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral support for BYOD spaces

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

With room and desk peripheral support expanded to include docking stations and webcams, Teams users can seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for enhanced experiences in bring your own device (BYOD) spaces. IT admins can benefit from automatic association of devices to a space, device inventory, and detailed reports for peripherals in the Pro Management portal. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Teams calendar available to Education customers

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:04 Z

The new calendar in Teams will be available to Education customers. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, the new Teams calendar will be enabled by default, and users can turn it off from the "New calendar" toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams.
GA date: June CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

This feature is available to tenants that enable SharePoint eSignature in the Microsoft Admin Center and have Word clients on the Current Channel.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/esignature-overview#regional-availability
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Group-less campaigns in Viva Amplify

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:15:06 Z

We are streamlining the campaign management experience in Viva Amplify and campaigns will no longer be tied to M365 groups. As such, M365 Group admins will no longer be a required role to configure Viva Amplify and only SharePoint admin role will be required. Also, when you create a campaign, there will no longer be a campaign channel tied to the Viva Amplify campaign, simplifying the campaign creation experience.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC High and DoD

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:45:15 Z

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:45:15 Z

Microsoft Teams: Personal meeting templates (Premium)

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:45:15 Z

Personal meeting templates enable users to pre-save meeting configurations (meeting options) and schedule meetings quickly with one click.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text in Teams Meetings and Calls

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:45:24 Z

Real-time Text (RTT) is a fast, accessible, and immediate communication method that transmits text character by character as it is typed. It is particularly valuable in various calling and meeting scenarios where it enables deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, neurodiverse users, and those with speech-related disabilities to engage in real-time conversations through text.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Townhall concurrent attendees increase to 100,000

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:15:05 Z

Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 100,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 50,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 100,000 concurrent attendees by selecting the Max Capacity limit to be as high as desired up to 100,000. Reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption) is recommended for every event. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot only during call

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:15:57 Z

Copilot is only available during the live call session and will not be accessible after the call ends. No recording or transcription is required to use Copilot during the call.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can enable transcription in multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium)

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:45:29 Z

We’re introducing a new organizer-level control that no longer requires all meetings to have one common spoken language to be set across all participants. Meeting organizers with Copilot or Teams Premium licenses will see a new control in meeting options called “Enable multilingual speech recognition.” When this is enabled before a meeting, each meeting participant will be able to set their own spoken language during the meeting, and the meeting transcript can accurately reflect each participant’s language of choice.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio summary of your file

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:16:02 Z

Copilot can generate audio summaries of your file, making information easy to consume anywhere.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:15:57 Z

Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:15:55 Z

Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:15:55 Z

When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC and GCC High environments (Premium)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:15:10 Z

Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC and GCC High environments. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Diagnostics in the new portal

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:15:19 Z

After further review, this needs to roll back. We apologize for any inconvenience. We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Outlook: Newsletters

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:00:51 Z

Newsletters in Outlook enable customers to create, distribute, and track success for their internal email newsletters. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OCR Audit logs

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:00:02 Z

This feature is designed to provide Audit logs for each OCR transaction; this feature is only available in Exchange and teams workload for public preview.
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Application Control for Business

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:15:32 Z

Application Control for Business in Intune has built-in controls and XML upload of WDAC policies and now supports targeting Managed Installer to specific groups instead of the entire tenant.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Use Copilot in PDFs within the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:45:41 Z

Use Copilot with PDF files for summaries and key insights.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Recommended thresholds

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:15:02 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint admin can enable Copilot for the Company admin user role

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Viva Glint's Company Admin role currently prevents editing of any role permissions, including feature controls for survey program reporting. While this restriction helps prevent accidental disruption of critical admin capabilities, it has emerged as a significant barrier to Copilot adoption. Customers must create and maintain redundant custom roles solely to enable Copilot access for Company Admin users, adding unnecessary complexity to deployment and ongoing management. This feature update will allow Company Admins to enable Copilot for themselves at the Viva Glint client user role level via a new toggle in General Settings. This enables Copilot across all eligible recurring and ad-hoc survey programs without altering the permissions architecture of the Company Admin role at the program level. All existing Company Admin user role permissions remain locked to preserve critical admin safeguards. This targeted change preserves essential admin role safeguards while removing a key friction point in Copilot deployment.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:15:43 Z

Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365: Protection unit-level offboarding for Microsoft 365 Backup

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

Ability to permanently delete, after appropriate grace period, protection units from the backups. A protection unit is defined as a OneDrive Account, SharePoint site, or Exchange Online shared or user mailbox being protected in the Backup tool.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Windows Quality Update management policies

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:00:27 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Unified Conversations (Chat History) List

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:00:46 Z

We’re making it easier to find what you need. This change will mean that users now see a single, streamlined list of all your conversations. No more switching between tabs or wondering where to look for specific conversations. Just select a conversation and you'll pick up in the same context and mode as where you left off.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Confidence level filtering in Content Explorer Cmdlet

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

With this feature, we will be providing confidence information in content explorer cmdlet export along with the capability to filter results on the basis of confidence level
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Onboard to the Places Directory with AI

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:15:49 Z

Seamlessly onboard to the Places Directory by using a new and improved AI-powered Initialize-Places PowerShell script. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hunting on Teams Messages

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

We are introducing three new Advaned Hunting tables designed to facilitate hunting of Teams messages containing URLs within your organization.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint agent web part

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:15:44 Z

SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Pulse users can assign other users as delegates

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:16:02 Z

Viva Pulse users can now assign other users as delegates to create and send pulses on their behalf.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Shared Mailboxes as Accounts

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:15:03 Z

Shared Mailboxes can be added as Accounts in the new Outlook for Windows. The Shared Mailbox will appear at the Account Level in the Folder list. Access to the Shared Mailbox requires the user's credentials and associated permissions. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:15:44 Z

Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new "Attach cloud files" experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Enhanced Device Inventory for Windows Devices for Government Cloud (GCCH)

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 23:30:07 Z

Gain more inventory information about your Windows devices. Choose which device properties you want to collect from which device and then view that information for your devices.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

We are introducing a novel and streamlined method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your Clipchamp projects by leveraging the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline. We are looking into making video editing more productive by providing a more intuitive and straightforward editing experience.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Intune: macOS Platform SSO Support

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 23:15:56 Z

Enable logging in on a managed Mac using your Entra ID password.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:30:34 Z

Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit 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 explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Collection policies impact on IRM

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs - Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by 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 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.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat-centered experience for creating new documents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:15:05 Z

In the Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad, users will see a chat-centered experience to create documents, enabling them to describe the document they want to create in a prompt.  
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:15:03 Z

Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Save an Event as a Draft on Android

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:15:17 Z

You can save a meeting as a draft on your calendar if you aren't ready to send the meeting invites. When composing an event with at least one attendee added, select dismiss and then select Save as a Draft. The draft event will show on your calendar as [Draft] along with the title of the event.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Edit and manage Teams Town Hall instances in Outlook

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

Organizers and co-organizers can now easily edit the details of Teams Town Hall instances. A direct link to the Teams Town Hall edit page is now accessible from Outlook calendar. This enhancement brings the same seamless editing and registration management experience already available in webinar, bringing a consistent experience across all event types.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

This feature enables policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a group. DG expansion refers to the process of expanding Distribution Groups (DG) to ensure all recipients are evaluated for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. This feature allows organizations to evaluate rules based on recipients contained in distribution groups, increasing the confidence that users will receive relevant warnings while drafting emails with sensitive content.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:00:36 Z

Dynamic watermarking is a sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Increasing policy template limits for Insider Risk Management

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:15:15 Z

Insider Risk Management will increase policy creation limits from 20 policies per template to 100 maximum overall active policies. For example, an organization may have 50 data leak policy templates because the limit will now apply to all active policies versus each policy template. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Save an audio overview from Copilot Notebooks to OneDrive

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Save the audio overview that you have generated within a Copilot Notebook to OneDrive so you can download or share with others.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:00:00 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - New Pulse customization options

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:00:21 Z

Authors will have new options when starting surveys, including choosing to send without pre-defining an audience, and feedback can instead be gathered by sharing a link that people can access the survey and respond through, sending a survey without a specified end date, allowing for longer-term data collection and multiple responses from recipients over time, and collecting identified responses, where answers are attributed to the person who submitted them.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:00:59 Z

Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users on devices. Adding DoD/GCC/GCC high expected dates
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Separate role added for downloading the original file evidence for Endpoint

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Microsoft Purview has introduced a new separate role for downloading the original evidence for endpoint. It is applicable when you try to download the evidence using Purview or XDR portal.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhanced eDiscovery Premium APIs

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

With the changes in Purview eDiscovery experience, the API support for Premium eDiscovery cases is also undergoing enhancements to align with the UI experience. We have the following APIs in Beta currently which will be moved to Live V1 version and ready for end customer use Search Estimate Statistics Search Export Report Search Export Result Search Add to ReviewSet ReviewSet Export
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Advanced label-based protection for non-Office/PDF files with the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

This feature enhances secure collaboration in your organization by using the Information Protection Filer Labeler and Viewer to apply protection from Endpoint DLP. Protected non-Office/PDF files preserve their native file format on-device and can be opened in third party applications. On egress from the machine, these files are protected as PFILEs.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Academy auto-save and drafting functionality

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

Changes you make to new, draft, or published LPs are now saved automatically in the background. In addition, your updates are now saved in a draft state while editing a published LP until you are ready to publish. The live version stays untouched until you hit publish.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Select camera in pre-join and during meeting

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

Users can select an internal or external camera, or keep it turned off, before joining or during Teams meetings.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to export policy settings

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:15:53 Z

Insider Risk Management will now supply the ability to export policy configuration settings into a CSV. Any user with admin permissions will be able to export the 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 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.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Pulse series for continuous feedback supporting AI transformations and change management

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:30:49 Z

New Pulse series templates are being introduced that are tailored to supporting continuous feedback scenarios for high value use cases such as change management.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Engage content surfacing in Copilot results

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:26 Z

Community discussion posts from Viva Engage will surface in Copilot results.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:09:52 Z

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.

More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation - End-User Tracking and Revocation

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:14:20 Z

From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed.
GA date: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] View Index browser, schema and errors for Custom Connectors on MAC

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:00:53 Z

View index browser, schema, and the errors for custom connectors from the M365 Admin center for better troubleshooting.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sharing with Copilot summary - Now supporting PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, Images, and protected files

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:00:33 Z

The ability to include a Copilot summary when sharing a file now extends beyond Word web to cover PowerPoint (web), Excel (web), PDF, image and text files in OneDrive Web, SharePoint document libraries, and M365 File Viewer. You can even summarize protected or confidential files, preserving your sensitivity labels while getting instant overviews. These enhancements broaden your sharing toolkit, accelerate collaboration and keep your data secure.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Device clean up rule

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:30:43 Z

This enables IT admins to clean up inactive devices from their tenant by providing capabilities of running these rules at a platform level.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes and Loop Components for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

Teams Notes and Loop components are now available in Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments, enabling real-time collaboration in chats and meetings. Loop components allow users to co-author tables, action items, and lists directly in chats, while Collaborative Notes let meeting attendees co-create and collaborate on their meeting agendas, notes, and action items. As Loop components, these features stay up-to-date across all shared locations, and assigned tasks automatically sync with Microsoft To Do and Planner for seamless task management.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Sort by category

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:15:31 Z

This adds the ability to sort by category in Outlook for Mac.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - New filters in Audit Search

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:15:00 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI)

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:15:15 Z

This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:15:49 Z

When drafting content that's based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:30:34 Z

When drafting content that's based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Use Copilot to select and rewrite specific pieces of text in an email in classic Outlook for Windows

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 23:15:43 Z

In classic Outlook for Windows, when composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Collection policies support in IRM

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:02 Z

With this update, IRM will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs - Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. For device indicators based IRM policy, required collection policies will be automatically created in the background. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:15:01 Z

Copilot users will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments in classic Outlook for Windows.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Organizers reply privately to individuals

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

Allows Engage event organizers to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies in Exchange

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:15:04 Z

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
GA date: August CY2026

Updated Admin Controls

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

Admin controls have been updated for enterprise customers to better manage the new unified video experience, onboarding new admin policies that allows admins to manage video creation and distribution features across platforms.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

Wed, 22 May 2024 23:30:29 Z

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Graph API support for directory objects

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

Microsoft Places will now support Graph API to allow CRUD (Create, read, update and delete) operations on Places directory objects. #MicrosoftPlaces
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Shared with Me Settings page

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

New Settings page will give users details on the permissions they have for Shared folders and mailboxes they have added in the new Outlook for Windows and web.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

The broader Microsoft 365 Copilot team are working on supporting 6 new languages across all M365 Copilot features. These are (in alphabetical order) Albanian, Filipino, Icelandic, Malay, Maltese, and Serbian (Cyrillic). The planned release of support for Kazakh language is delayed; we will provide updates as they become available
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization's collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft's handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Creating impactful slides can be challenging and time-consuming. Copilot helps you quickly turn your ideas and files into a fully designed slide with content ready to edit and refine, making the presentation creation and refinement process more personalized and efficient.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:15:53 Z

Now, instantly get suggestions for slide templates to use while creating slides in PowerPoint. Insert a new slide or start typing the slide name or type of slide and see suggestions in the Copilot Suggestions pane.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:15:53 Z

Microsoft To Do: Grid view for tasks in Microsoft To Do

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:45:19 Z

Tasks can now be seen in a grid view in the web version of Microsoft To Do as well as when using To Do in other apps like Microsoft Outlook.
GA date: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:00:11 Z

We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Enhancements for smarter authoring

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:00:54 Z

We’ve made some exciting updates to Viva Amplify's authoring experience that will take your content creation experience to the next level. With our latest release, Copilot is now smarter and more helpful than ever, leveraging your files, like Word documents, and even meeting content, to generate high-quality communications with ease. Here’s what’s new: 1. Smarter prompt tuning We’ve fine-tuned how drafts and rewrites are handled, resulting in clearer, better-formatted output that aligns with your tone and goals. 2. Create content from files and meetings You can now use Word and Excel files, or even meeting recordings, as inputs to help generate content. Whether you're working from a doc, a spreadsheet, or a conversation, Copilot in Amplify helps you turn ideas into polished messaging. 3. Unified content generation flow We’ve migrated to a common service that brings a consistent and scalable experience across all your AI tools in SharePoint and Viva Amplify. What's more, generated content now appears in real-time, making the experience smoother and faster. These updates are part of our continued investment in delivering an intelligent, seamless authoring experience.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: SQL-like commands in the search bar

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:15:03 Z

Efficiently narrow down your search results by using SQL-like commands in the search bar. Users can quickly filter messages, files, or conversations with precise queries such as from:username, with:username or in:channel.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Updating Conversation Actions on Outlook for iOS

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

Microsoft Edge: v.139 - Edge Settings Improvements

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:30:20 Z

Edge Settings is migrating to WebUI2 to boost page responsiveness and introducing a series of minor visual and content upgrades to improve overall usability and utility. This includes optimizing for concise wording of individual settings, simplifying the number of pages and reorganizing content, and creating a cohesive user interface.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business from showing in the toolbar

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

Edge for Business will now have a dedicated policy (Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled) to enable and disable Copilot in Edge from showing in the Edge toolbar.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Edge: v.139 - New Autofill Personal Information Settings Configuration

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:15:20 Z

A web form field collection consent toggle will be available in Autofill settings (edge://settings/autofill/personalInfo). This will allow users to consent to Microsoft Edge collecting web form field labels (e.g., "First Name," "Email") to improve Autofill suggestion accuracy. Only field labels are collected and not user-entered data. This new setting is manageable via existing policies in Autofill (e.g., AutofillAddressEnabled, AutofillMLEnabled). AutofillAddressEnabled is the parent setting for AutofillMLEnaled. The AutofillMLEnabled policy is the parent of this new setting, thus turning off the AutofillMLenabled policy will turn off this setting.
GA date: August CY2025

Outlook: Browse Conversation Files

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:15:44 Z

This feature makes it easy for users to find and access all files within a conversation thread. Instead of scrolling through each message to locate attachments, users can quickly view and manage all files in one place, accessed from the top of the conversation.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users

Fri, 30 May 2025 22:00:38 Z

Sign language users will benefit from an enhanced meeting experience. Interpreters will be clearly identified in the participant roster and visually distinguished throughout meetings. Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who use sign language will be automatically detected and elevated to active speaker status, ensuring equal prominence with spoken audio participants. This will help create a more equitable and collaborative environment for everyone.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Attachments preservation for users on hold

Tue, 27 May 2025 23:15:03 Z

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
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Custom user mapping for Workday

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:45:58 Z

Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:58:45 Z

Enables you to import indicators from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint related to unapproved or malicious software installation or bypassing security controls. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2022

Exchange: New Message Trace in Exchange Online

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Admins can access the new Message Trace and its capabilities by default when navigating to the Exchange admin center > Mail flow > Message Trace. Admins can also leverage the new Message Trace PowerShell cmdlets Get-MessageTraceV2 and Get-MessageTraceDetailV2. We have added key improvements such as support to query up to 90 days of historical data for message trace summary report (near real-time query), subject search capability, and more.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Outlook: Event Updates

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

If an organizer updates an event that you have been invited to, you will now see Event Updated in the email and the updated location if applicable.
GA date: June CY2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint - Apply watermark to PDF

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:30:16 Z

Once you integrate your organization's assets into a Sharepoint OAL (Organization Asset Library) you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:15:46 Z

Once you connect your asset library, hosted with Templafy, to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Review set query report

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:09:39 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat now supports more file types in search grounding.

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

We are expanding the file types supported in Copilot Chat to align with the Microsoft Search experience.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for EDU customers ages 13 and older

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:15:05 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 EDU users ages 13 and older who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. Admins must take action to enable access.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domains or self

Tue, 27 May 2025 23:15:03 Z

In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains - This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. 2. Sending email with attachments to self - This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user's personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident. Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these new indicators in the data leaks or data theft policy template. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent available in Teams

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Timeline view of user activity

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user's potentially risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user's history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Outlook: Ability to copy attachments that are not links

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

When this rolls out, customers will be able to copy and paste attachments that are not links only in supported locations without having to save to device or cloud storage.
GA date: June CY2025

SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Find on Page in Microsoft Edge for Business will soon be integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to Find on Page (CTRL+F). This feature seeks to help users more easily find relevant content and save time.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Advanced label-based protection for all files on devices

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

Turning this feature on will allow users to work on files, including files other than Office and PDF files, with sensitivity labels that apply access control settings in an unencrypted state on their devices. Endpoint DLP will continue to monitor and enforce access control and label-based protection on these files even in unencrypted state and automatically encrypt them before they’re transferred outside from a user’s device. This feature is supported only on Windows devices.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap can be shared via link

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:15:03 Z

Meeting participants can now share a link to the meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the recap tab, making it easier to reference and share the meeting recap insights with others. Meeting participants can share the meeting recap link with anyone in their organization, for those users who don't have access to the recording or transcript, they need to request recording and transcript access before they can access the meeting recap.
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Metrics reporting via Data Export

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:15:49 Z

Enterprises can get aggregate metrics on Academy, Content consumption, and user clicks.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:30:19 Z

SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring

Tue, 02 May 2023 23:25:22 Z

Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time.

GA date: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Update document sections from new sources

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:15:38 Z

Easily refresh parts of your document using content from other files—without copying and pasting. Copilot keeps your formatting intact while pulling in the latest updates from new sources.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Copilot chat in a sidebar in classic Outlook for Windows

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

We're introducing a sidebar experience for Copilot Chat in classic Outlook for Windows. Now, you'll be able to chat with Copilot alongside and in the context of the content you're reading or writing in Outlook.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:15:19 Z

Once you connect your asset library hosted with Templafy to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

Once you connect your asset library hosted with Templafy to Microsoft365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:15:17 Z

Once you integrate your organization's assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:15:17 Z

Once you integrate your organization's assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
GA date: June CY2025

Word: Email Notification Context Previews for Files Protected with Microsoft Purview

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

Notification emails for mentions, tasks, comments, and replies will now contain context previews even when the source document is encrypted, and the email will inherit the document's security policies.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Real-time policy tuning analysis

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:15:05 Z

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention -- Always-on diagnostics for macOS endpoints (Phase 1)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:15:15 Z

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.
GA date: November CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Introducing new IT administrator policies to control Town hall Event Access

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

Previously, Microsoft did not provide a way for Teams admins to control who can attend town halls that are created in their organization. With this new policy, tenant administrators can control who can attend town halls created by members in their organization.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Security policy violations by departing users

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:58:43 Z

"Detects security violations by departing users near their resignation or termination date. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2022

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Security policy violations by priority users

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:58:41 Z

Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2022

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - General Security Policy Violations

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:58:40 Z

GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: April CY2022

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:30:30 Z

We mistakenly marked this roadmap as "launched." We apologize for any inconvenience. When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors.
GA date: July CY2025

OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:30:03 Z

With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files.
GA date: October CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:30:04 Z

Secure sites by identifying sites with "similar files" and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI.
GA date: November CY2024
Preview date: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:00:00 Z

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.

GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Security policy violations by risky users

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:58:44 Z

Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls.

GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2022

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): See a summary from Copilot of the latest changes and comments in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint backstage view.

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:00:26 Z

Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them.
GA date: October CY2025

Outlook: Contact Improvements on Outlook Mobile

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:15:52 Z

On Outlook mobile we are improving the "Contacts" experience by showing additional profile information for your contacts, where applicable. Secondly, this improvement hides identical duplicate contacts.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Copilot makes it fast and easy to schedule a meeting from an email thread. When you use the Schedule with Copilot option, Copilot analyzes the email and creates a meeting invitation for you, filling in a meeting title and agenda, and adding the email thread as an attachment. The people on the email thread are included as meeting attendees, and you can quickly review the invitation, add or change info, and then send it out.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:17 Z

Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the Copilot chat pane.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint DLP - Protect shadow files for OneDrive

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Admins can protect OneDrive shadow files, that are not locally synced on an endpoint device. This feature has a dependency on Just-in-time (JIT) to provide the interim protection.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

SharePoint: Improved processing status experience for Content AI models in SharePoint Online

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

We’re introducing a new activity pane in SharePoint Online to help users track and troubleshoot Content AI model processing. Starting with document translation and autofill, users will be able to view real-time status (in progress, completed, failed) for individual files, bulk selections, or the full library. Completed status will include enriched details like language codes, glossary usage, and column extraction counts. This new pane will eventually replace the current “processing status” column, providing a more consistent and actionable experience.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agent usage statistics across all SharePoint sites

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:03 Z

SharePoint agents' usage statistics would be aggregated across all SharePoint sites and available for the tenant admin persona.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Report a Message for External Collaboration

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:58 Z

Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- DLP alerts as indicators

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:15:32 Z

IRM admins can now select DLP alerts as indicators in IRM policies. IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM. By enabling this indicator, admins can detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins view this information within IRM itself without having to switch to DLP. 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
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:09:55 Z

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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.

More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2023

OneNote: Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:15:41 Z

Users can now access Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote. Using Copilot Notebooks, users can pull together and reason over a wide range of content such as notes, documents, websites, meeting recordings, and more.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Enhanced alert and user investigation using Copilot for Security in Insider Risk Management

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:30:44 Z

When investigating alerts within Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, you can now harness the power of Microsoft Copilot for Security. This tool not only provides concise alert summaries, but it also allows you to delve into specific user activities. By doing so, you can promptly assess whether the user associated with the alert warrants further investigation or if the alert can be safely dismissed. Additionally, with just a click, you can obtain a succinct summary of the user’s risk profile, highlighting crucial details and top risk factors. Leveraging Copilot for Security streamlines investigations, ultimately reducing the triage workload and enabling faster decision making.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:39:47 Z

GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Delete Schema Properties via Copilot Connector APIs

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

We’re adding support for property deletion in custom Copilot connectors, giving admins and developers more control over schema evolution. With this feature, you can: * Use Copilot connector APIs to delete or drop individual schema properties that are no longer needed. * Keep your connector schema clean and up-to-date without requiring full re-ingestion. * Reduce developer overhead and simplify maintenance workflows as your data models evolve.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Connector Metadata Enrichment for Custom Copilot Connectors

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

We’re introducing new options that allow admins and developers to enrich their custom Copilot connectors and its schema properties with descriptive metadata. With this update, you can now: * Provide richer context about the connection and its schema properties to Copilot’s LLM, enabling more accurate and relevant responses. Add alternate names, data source categories, common actions to your connector and description for schema properties. * Improve search and chat quality by helping Copilot better understand the semantics and purpose of your data.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Simplified People Resolution for Custom Copilot Connectors

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

This feature enables connectors to resolve external identities—such as email addresses or user IDs from third-party data sources—to their corresponding Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) identities. By allowing flexible identity mapping, developers can: * Simplify integration workflows without needing complex Graph API lookups. * Reduce setup friction by avoiding strict dependency on object IDs. * Improve search and chat relevance in Copilot by ensuring accurate people attribution across connected systems.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Schema Recommendations for Custom Connectors in M365 Admin Center

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Accelerate your custom connector development with intelligent schema guidance directly in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. This feature provides: * Proposed schema suggestions tailored to the connector you’re building. * Real-time recommendations to identify gaps or errors in your schema design to help improve search and chat results in Copilot. Whether you're starting from scratch or refining an existing connector, this enhancement ensures your schema is optimized for Copilot extensibility and performance.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Full refresh of custom connectors datasource

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

Admins and developers can do a full refresh or sync of their datasource for Custom Connectors using Graph APIs. This also ensures that any items deleted in the source are automatically deleted during this full sync and admins do not have to use separate delete APIs to do this.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Customize icons and display names for custom Copilot connectors

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:15:54 Z

1. Add or Customize icons for Custom Copilot connectors using the Graph API or from the M365 Admin Center. 2. Add or Customize display names for Custom Copilot connectors using the Graph API or from the M365 Admin Center.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:15:41 Z

Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: Create multi-color themes for SharePoint in brand center

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:00:36 Z

We're bringing a new theme creation experience into brand center that supports multiple colors, allowing you to easily create and manage multi-color themes for your sites and related experiences.
GA date: May CY2025

SharePoint: Customize your sites with multi-color themes

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

Site owners can now apply multi-color themes to their sites. These themes can be offered by Microsoft, created by the brand manager in the brand center, or by the site owners themselves using the new Site branding feature.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Import and Search function support for Sensitive service domains group

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:15:06 Z

Purview Endpoint DLP improve the management of Sensitive service domains group by allowing you to import a URL group and search specific URL across all groups.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Network share coverage and exclusion support on Mac endpoints

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

With this feature, sensitive data in files stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Pop-out live captions and Real-time-Text (RTT) in meetings

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:15:47 Z

When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize live captions (including live translated captions), and real-time-text (RTT) from the main meeting window. This enables you to position the captions and RTT wherever you prefer on your screen, so you can easily focus on the meeting while viewing the incoming text in a position most comfortable for you.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Entry point change - apps when reading emails moved to the ribbon

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:15:35 Z

The Apps flyout and entry point for pinned apps will be moved to the Home tab in the Ribbon in the New Outlook and Outlook for Web. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Import and Search function support for Sensitive service domains group

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

Purview Endpoint DLP improves the management of Sensitive service domains group by allowing you to import a URL group and search a specific URL across all groups.
GA date: January CY2025
Preview date: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat - Edge contextual capabilities in Business Chat work mode

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:15:49 Z

In Business Chat work mode, users can ask Copilot questions about web pages and PDFs opened in the Edge browser using page context, such as “summarize this page". This feature is currently also available in Business Chat web mode.
GA date: March CY2025

Outlook: New RSVP settings in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Thu, 02 May 2024 23:15:25 Z

Two new settings to improve the user experience when responding to meeting invitations: (1) do not delete invitation email after RSVPing and (2) auto-decline if the attendee's calendar shows as busy. These features will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:15:57 Z

When drafting content that's based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - New filters in Audit Search

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:15:24 Z

Word: 3rd party citation add-in in reference tab

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:00:18 Z

This integrates popular third-party citation providers under the Word Reference tab, helping users efficiently complete their reference lists.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Mail Categories

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:36 Z

Users will be able to assign and remove categories to mails on Android devices.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Memory

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users have full control and can view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds)

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:05:59 Z

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.

GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Intune: iOS app multiple managed accounts

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:18:34 Z

Allows people to use a single device with multiple managed accounts to access company information through Teams iOS app, with Outlook to follow.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Copilot Search management and insights

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

Enable AI administrators to configure, customize, and measure Copilot Search across their organization. This feature provides centralized tools to manage search connectors, tailor search experiences to organizational needs, and gain actionable insights into adoption, usage patterns, and content engagement. Designed to enhance productivity and maximize the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it supports both setup and ongoing optimization of enterprise search experiences.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Agentic AI - powered Submissions Response for Improved Result Explainability

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

We are introducing intuitive responses powered by Agentic AI for admin-submitted messages analyzed by Microsoft.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:15:04 Z

You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced Take Action experience in Threat Explorer

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

SecOps can take multiple actions like purge emails, inline submissions, and tenant level block actions together through a single Take Action wizard.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Unified experience for Copilot Dashboard and Viva Insights analyst workbench

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

A new, unified experience for leaders, delegates and analysts that combines the Copilot Dashboard and advanced Copilot reports in Viva Insights analyst workbench into one application.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:30:16 Z

Declarative Agents have already rolled out to Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, with this update we will be adding support for the same set of agents in Copilot chat in Outlook too. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app for iOS and Android

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:04 Z

Outlook will help you compose emails more quickly and efficiently by allowing you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. This means that, while composing an email, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder.
GA date: January CY2025

Outlook: Fonts in Outlook for iOS and Android

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:45:06 Z

We heard feedback from you, our customers, and are adding support for choosing fonts while you compose in Outlook for iOS and Android. There is also improved support for fonts in the reading pane.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recent activity is part of Copilot's dynamic document snapshot in Word

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:15:32 Z

Select the Activity tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a document for a summary of recent comments and changes. Choose a time window of 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Auto-update document sections from new sources

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:15:32 Z

Microsoft Edge: v.138 - Policies to manage Shadow IT

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:15:53 Z

M365 Commercial customers can use Edge polices (WebContentFilteringBlockedCategories) to block non-secure LLMs in Edge and block other browsers to redirect users to a more secure alternative like Copilot Chat.
GA date: July CY2025

Windows 365: Resize is enabled for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:15:48 Z

When changing the Cloud PC size on a specific assignment within the provisioning policy for W365 Frontline, all of the Cloud PCs in that assignment will be resized to the newly selected Cloud PC size.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

Word: Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting so that your content is seamless and fits with your document.
GA date: September CY2025

Outlook: Name pronunciation on profile card in Outlook web and Outlook desktop

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:30:09 Z

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Report a Conversation in new admin center

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

Report a Conversation feature configuration will soon be available in the new Engage admin center, moved from the legacy Yammer admin center. This feature allows admins to set-up a reporting mechanism for Engage conversations in their network. There are no changes to the end-user experience.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:00:09 Z

The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Kickstart your document with contextual prompts

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:15:40 Z

Copilot includes files and meetings based on your recent activity when suggesting prompts you can use to draft a new document in Word.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher is in Microsoft Word

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:15:03 Z

The Researcher agent now has easier entry points on the Word canvas —making it faster to go from idea to polished research report without breaking your flow.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot App - Ask M365 Copilot

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Right-click on your content to ask Copilot about it on Copilot PC devices.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly start a chat with Copilot from anywhere on your PC

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Use the Copilot key and Win + C shortcut on Windows 11 devices to quickly interact with Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents to run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:43 Z

Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents using Teams Toolkit & Microsoft Copilot Studio, so that they can run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a presentation with Copilot from the PowerPoint backstage view

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

You can now create a presentation with Copilot straight from the PowerPoint backstage view, accessible when you start PowerPoint or when you select the File tab.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Currently you can create Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release feature based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different devices.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot surfaces key statistics in the top of a document

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Copilot includes a summary at the top of key statistics from your Word document.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [b.2.3] Governance control for agents with file uploaded as knowledge source

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

For agents with uploaded files as knowledge source, admins now can regulate and manage including but not limited to agent filtering, reviewing sensitivity label, metadata, etc.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Large Audience Warnings in Outlook for iOS and Android

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Users are warned when they are emailing a large number of recipients which can help them make the correct decision about wording, tone, and content.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: 2-click view of encrypted emails in New Outlook

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:30:41 Z

New Outlook for Windows will now support a two-click view for encrypted emails. This feature enables admins to require user confirmation before allowing access to encrypted emails. Admins can find the "TwoClickMailPreviewEnabled" setting in the Microsoft Azure directory. Alternatively, admins can access and set the value for this setting using the Microsoft PowerShell cmdlet "-Set-OrganizationConfiquration" in the Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Admin units support for SharePoint Online

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

Word: Choose the level of detail for summaries when documents are opened

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

If you like brevity or more depth in the summaries that Copilot generates when you open a document, you can now specify your preference as brief, standard, or detailed.
GA date: February CY2025

Word: Choose the level of detail for summaries when documents are opened

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

If you like brevity or more depth in the summaries that Copilot generates when you open a document, you can now specify your preference as brief, standard, or detailed.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Notify users about hidden content matches in Communication Compliance

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:00:59 Z

This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Paste to Browser prevention support on macOS device with endpoint DLP

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:03 Z

Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention adds support on users trying to paste sensitive content into web browsers on macOS devices using Edge, Safari, and other browsers.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Labeling email from attachment's label in Outlook on the web and New Outlook

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:47:11 Z

Outlook on the web and New Outlook will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admins can configure this either using the cmdlet set-label policy advanced setting or the Compliance portal to configure the label policy (Roadmap 100158). Customers will automatically see or will be recommended that an email gets the higher label from an attachment's label. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Save filters for Activity Explorer

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:30:43 Z

This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: search emails while offline in the new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

We are adding more functionality to offline mode in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to do basic search functions without internet connection or when the search service fails. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Locate your Copilot Pages in Copilot Chat navigation pane

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

For quick access to your Copilot Pages, find all page artifacts created across your apps/modules in one place underneath the Chat section in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:15:23 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Support for multicloud environments

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:15:23 Z

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.
GA date: June CY2026

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management - Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:15:49 Z

With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities 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.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Information Protection and Insider Risk Management support multicloud environments

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:00:27 Z

Microsoft Purview Information Protection extends its sensitivity labels and protection policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create label-based protection policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope, and which users or groups are allowed to access data with a certain sensitivity label and Purview will automatically enforce the policy and block unauthorized access to sensitive data. 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, and Google Drive. 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. Note: We have updated the cloud environments to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easier access to Researcher in Microsoft Word

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:00:59 Z

The Researcher agent now has easier entry points on the Word canvas —making it faster to go from idea to polished research report without breaking your flow.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Designer is now part of Copilot, enhanced with new template and slide suggestions

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:15:05 Z

Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities.
GA date: May CY2025

Universal Print: Pull Print queues

Thu, 09 May 2024 23:00:20 Z

Pull Print enables IT Pros to offer their end users a simplified view of the print solution. Specifically, IT Pros can set up virtualized printer(s) so that end users only need to know the name of one printer. Those users can securely release their own print jobs at any associated printer, depending on the setup.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: November CY2024

Microsoft Entra: Improved Backup and Restore Experience for the Authenticator App on iOS

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:00:43 Z

Users of the Microsoft Authenticator app on iOS will be able to back up account names—including Microsoft work or school accounts, Microsoft personal accounts, and third-party accounts like Amazon or Google—using iCloud and iCloud Keychain. This enables secure, end-to-end encrypted backup of account names and TOTP credentials. When setting up a new iOS device, account names will automatically appear in the app, and users can sign in to complete setup.
GA date: August CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025

SharePoint: Text Editor Copilot 'Refine' update

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:00:43 Z

SharePoint is updating the capabilities of its text editor Copilot. Now, you can not only use copilot to rewrite your existing text but also use it to keep writing or add a grounding document. By answering the question "what do you want copilot to change", you can perform any number of refinements to your existing content.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Usability and privacy improvements for live captions and live transcript in meetings

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

Introducing enhancements to live captions and live transcripts in Microsoft Teams to make meetings more intuitive, accessible, and privacy-focused. Live captions are now scrollable, allowing users to review past conversation with more flexibility and over a larger surface area. Next, copying captions is disabled by default to protect sensitive information and support compliance. Additionally, the live transcript panel won’t open automatically with features that trigger transcription—like recording, giving users greater control over their layout. Lastly, If transcription is enabled, users who attempt to open the live transcript panel will see a banner suggesting they switch to live captions for real-time comprehension. These updates streamline the experience while supporting accessibility and privacy.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Communications Dashboard

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:15:44 Z

A central hub for corporate communicators and network administrators to access information and manage tasks across the communications lifecycle, starting with campaigns, analytics, leader and audiences, and advanced moderation.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: FSLogix support for the new Outlook for Windows

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:02 Z

FSLogix support for the new Outlook for Windows includes registering the new Outlook for Windows package by family name and persisting the user data in LocalAppData. It will allow the roaming of user data in new Outlook for non-persistent VDI. #newoutlookforwindows
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365-apps/outlook/get-started/virtualized-desktop-infrastructure
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Org Explorer available for all M365 commercial users

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:15:45 Z

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in Outlook for all M365 enterprise users, including Microsoft Viva users.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recent activity is part of Copilot's dynamic document snapshot in Word

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

Select the Activity tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a document for a summary of recent comments and changes. Choose a time window of 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recent activity is part of Copilot's dynamic document snapshot in Word

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:15:08 Z

Select the Activity tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a document for a summary of recent comments and changes. Choose a time window of 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Custom Dictionary

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:00:52 Z

Tenant administrators can now upload a Custom Dictionary through the M365 Admin Portal's Copilot Settings page to include tenant-specific terminologies. This enhancement improves entity recognition in Teams meeting transcripts, benefiting both Recap and Copilot's understanding of the content.
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Copilot Prepare for Meeting in Calendar

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:00:19 Z

With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you have an upcoming meeting, Copilot proactively shows you a "Prepare" button in your inbox which helps you quickly get context by creating a summary of the meeting and showing and summarizing relevant files, leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Add custom sounds for Mail Notifications, Reactions, and Calendar Reminders

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:17 Z

In your Notification settings, you'll be able to add a custom sound for your mail notifications, mail reactions, and calendar notifications (aka reminders). #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email within purview content explorer. This will help admins with their investigation process
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

SharePoint: Time to read on SharePoint News posts

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:15:45 Z

Each news item in SharePoint will display estimated read time of the article.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot generates the new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:15:49 Z

Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot generates the new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:15:49 Z

Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP - Edge to enforce USB, network, and printer group restrictions on files

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:15:44 Z

Purview Admins can now use either Removable USB device, Network Share, and/or Printer groups within DLP policies, these restrictions are now extensible to the Edge browser experience.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhancements to global exclusions in IRM settings

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

In this update, we are making the below enhancements to Insider Risk Management (IRM) exclusions to reduce alert noise. 1. Keyword logic update for email - An email will be excluded from scoring only when all the attachments match the keyword exclusions or email subject matches the keyword exclusions. This will be helpful to reduce the email signature noise which commonly contains keyword "image". 2. Keyword exclusions on both target and source file paths - For signals like file copied to removable media, keyword exclusions apply on both target and source file paths. 3. File path exclusions for removable media - We will start supporting file path exclusions for removable media. 4. Exclusion support for browser - Domain exclusions are now supported for browsing indicators. 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.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user's prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness and control over the process.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- MacOS parity – Full file evidence

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:03 Z

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can copy the item that matches a DLP policy from onboarded MacOS devices to an Azure storage account. This creates full file evidence parity for MacOS.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Keyword monitoring enhancements

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:15:44 Z

Network and Verified admins can setup specific keywords to monitor across conversations in their network. The enhancements include a new, modern experience of the existing functionality. Keyword monitoring will now accessible in the new communications dashboard experience within the advanced moderation page. The feature is no longer available in the Engage admin center.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Theme moderation in Viva Engage

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

Network admins and corporate communicators can input custom themes of interest and track new conversations that match these themes. Theme monitoring is accessible in the new communications dashboard experience in the advanced moderation page.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections - New News feature in Microsoft Teams

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:15:40 Z

This update will replace the current Feed experience in Viva Connections across desktop, mobile, and web platforms with a SharePoint News reader experience. This new experience will present SharePoint news from the organizational sites, boosted news, users' followed sites, frequent sites, and people they work with in an immersive reader experience. This will include a Copilot-powered news summary as well, available only in Teams for Windows desktop in this initial release. February 2025: We inadvertently changed the status to Rolling Out, but the correct status is Development. We apologize for the inconvenience.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle separate retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:08 Z

Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025

OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for web and in Teams

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:15:31 Z

Bringing the power of Microsoft Copilot to OneNote for web and in Teams.
GA date: February CY2025

SharePoint: Auto-run Data Access Governance (DAG) reports

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:15:19 Z

You can now schedule to run your DAG reports automatically every 28 days and also receive notification when the auto-run completes.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Skills Scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:15:51 Z

With Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights, leaders can unlock powerful skills insights for their teams—driven by People Skills data. Copilot enables leaders to explore their organization’s skill distribution, identify individuals with specific capabilities, and generate dynamic visual reports to support strategic decision-making.
GA date: June CY2025

OneDrive: Hide people previewing files in OneDrive and SharePoint

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:30:37 Z

This setting will allow administrators to disable the presence feature in the OneDrive and SharePoint file previewing experience on selected sites. This item is inaccurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: October CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex - Update to Microsoft Syntex translation

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:15:05 Z

The document translation service enables users to create translated copies quickly and easily while preserving the original format and structure of the file. We’re updating the service to allow creating translated copies in up to 10 languages with a single request. This update will be available for both manual and rule-based requests.
GA date: October CY2024

SharePoint: Enhancing SharePoint document translation with glossary feature

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:15:23 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a glossary capability to our SharePoint AI content document translation model. This feature delivers precise, industry-specific translations, fostering unparalleled clarity and consistency for your documents. Experience effortless integration and user-friendly operation within your existing SharePoint libraries.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:30:16 Z

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for 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 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.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Copilot Chat response output

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:45:41 Z

Easily interact with Microsoft Graph content represented by bolder references, new action bar, and more.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Speaker attribution now “On” by default in BYOD rooms with enhanced admin controls

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

New PowerShell setting (SpeakerAttributionBYOD in csTeamsAIPolicy), enabled by default, gives IT admins more control over speaker attribution in BYOD (bring your own device) meeting rooms. This enhances the experience for users by enabling clear speaker labels and richer in-meeting and post-meeting insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Users just enroll profiles via Teams Settings to be recognized.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Read aloud available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

Play back Copilot responses as audio with read aloud in Copilot Chat.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dictate your prompts in Copilot Chat

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:15:32 Z

Use the dictation button to input your prompts with speech.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Unified video branded start page

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:49 Z

This creates a unified Clipchamp and Stream start page that serves as a single video destination of creation, consumption, and discovery.
GA date: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) - Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:00:54 Z

Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information. With Embedded support, OCR will scan content in DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and PDFs (scanned and hybrid containing searchable text and images). This will be in addition to support for standalone images
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI- additional Microsoft Copilot integrations

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:41 Z

Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI support for Fabric Copilot and Security Copilot.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:08:51 Z

Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.

GA date: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - User Schema Enhancements- Create and Edit Hierarchies

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

This feature enables Viva Glint admins to create and edit hierarchies directly within the platform. It empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Microsoft 365 Copilot App

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is your starting place for AI at work, offering quick access to secure AI chat, search, files, and content creation in one seamless app.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:19 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:03 Z

Microsoft Purview AI Hub has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI). Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains: This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. 2. Sending email with attachments to self: This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user's personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident. Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these new indicators in the data leaks or data theft policy template. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New predicate in Email DLP - Detect number of domains/Recipients

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:15:18 Z

The "Recipient/Domain Count Over" feature, designed to address a critical need for managing and controlling the distribution of sensitive information via email. This feature allows organizations to set specific policies that trigger alerts or actions when the number of recipients or domains in outgoing emails exceeds a defined threshold. By implementing this feature, organizations can enhance data security, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and prevent unauthorized data dissemination, providing peace of mind and safeguarding sensitive information.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

OneDrive: Sync admin reports - bulk data export

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:11:40 Z

Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors.

GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: July CY2024

Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:15:07 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat general availability for GCC

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:30:09 Z

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Copilot is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 GCC users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat designed for work, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements. This will help protect sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/overview
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:15:36 Z

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Meeting Audit Events in GCC

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Teams Audit Events for Meetings, including MeetingDetail and MeetingParticipantDetail, will soon be available in GCC. This enhancement will provide administrators with comprehensive insights into meeting activities, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency. MeetingDetail: Captures detailed information about meetings, including start and end times, meeting subject, and organizer details. MeetingParticipantDetail: Logs participant information, including join and leave times, participant roles, and any changes in participant status during the meeting. Audit logs are accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, where administrators can search, filter, and export audit data for detailed analysis. These logs are essential for maintaining compliance, investigating incidents, and ensuring the security of Teams activities.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can generate an audio overview of a notebook

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Copilot can turn the referenced files in a notebook into a dynamic audio overview, transforming them into a listening experience that’s easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Copilot Notebooks, select ‘Generate audio overview’ at the top of the notebook. This capability is only available in English currently.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI - Data Assessments

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:03 Z

Data assessments in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by viewing default assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Move to in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:15:06 Z

The "Move To" option is now available in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web, making it easier to organize emails. Quickly move messages to any folder without switching back to the main window. This update ensures a seamless and consistent email management experience. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: July CY2025

Outlook: Move to in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for Web

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility - Admins can manage Copilot extensibility under Copilot tab in Microsoft 365 admin center

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:45:15 Z

Admins have options to manage Copilot extensibility under Copilot tab including agent management for IT published agents and shared agents.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: Enrich the details of the auto forwarded emails in the Exchange DLP

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:58 Z

We are excited to introduce an enhancement to our system that will provide more accurate and detailed information for forwarded emails. This new feature will ensure that the correct user, recipient information, and email evidence are displayed in the alert generated. This improvement will help admins accurately trace the origin and intended recipient of forwarded emails, reducing confusion and minimizing the risk of false positives. The update will be reflected in our audit logs, alerts page, and activity explorer page
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Paste to Browser prevention support on macOS device with endpoint DLP

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:15:23 Z

Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention adds support for instances where users try to paste sensitive content into a web browser on macOS devices using Edge, Safari, and other browsers.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Document snapshot in Word personalizes output

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:00:15 Z

The document snapshot helps the user focus faster by surfacing the most important information for them based on their personal context.
GA date: September CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content suggestions in Word

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:00:15 Z

Select the Suggestions tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a Word document for suggestions on improving the content of the document.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments

Thu, 30 May 2024 23:30:03 Z

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.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure Storage

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:45:36 Z

Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure Data Lake Gen 2 and Azure Blob storage, all within Microsoft Purview information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Overview dashboard

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:15:17 Z

We are introducing a new Overview dashboard to help customers understand how our product effectively protects their organization environment and digital assets. The overview dashboard focuses on showcasing the effectiveness of our tools, how customers can further amplify this effectiveness and our product’s leading position in comparison to the other non-Microsoft security solutions out there.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Add cycles to a custom blank recurring program

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:17 Z

This feature enables Glint Admins to add cycles to programs created using the "custom blank recurring" program type. Previously unavailable, this capability is now supported for both existing and newly created programs.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Delegates can now create new categories for the account owner's Calendar

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:53 Z

Delegates can now create new categories on behalf of the person who granted them permissions. They can also apply said categories to the Calendar of that same person who granted them permissions. Delegates can view the list of the delegator's Categories by visiting the Accounts > Categories page of the Settings window and selecting the delegator's account from the dropdown. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: January CY2025

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists - Conditional branching in Microsoft Lists forms

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:51 Z

Microsoft Lists forms will enable users to create dynamic forms featuring branching and conditional logic. This update allows users to customize their forms to display relevant questions based on conditions applied to previous responses, empowering them to design smarter forms that adapt to their data collection needs.
GA date: January CY2025

Outlook: Add emails as attachments while composing an email on Outlook for iOS and Android

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:45:33 Z

Now while you are composing in Outlook for iOS or Android, you can use the same attach option you already know to select and attach emails to your mail.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:30:11 Z

Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:30:46 Z

We are introducing several enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include a comprehensive case-level data source view, the ability to retry failed locations for a more complete search statistics estimate. Users will also be able to duplicate search and copy search from hold or hold from search within the same case, reusing the data sources and queries. Additionally, customers will be able to access a more comprehensive reporting in all process reports including information like compliance boundary, encryption settings and more.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - SharePoint storage insights, actions, and resources

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:15:03 Z

A new Storage tab will be added to usage report for SharePoint within the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new tab will provide visibility into storage quota consumption, a usage trend, and recommended actions and resources for storage management and optimization
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:15:46 Z

This allows the customer to use a label for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Presenter joins Townhalls via dial-in

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

Now, with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) code provided in the town hall share event dialog, organizers can share these codes with presenters. With these codes, presenters will join as an attendee and promoted to a presenter to join either the green room or the live session.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Optional connected experiences privacy setting

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:30:03 Z

This rollout introduces the privacy setting for "Turn on optional connected experiences" in Outlook on the web which is available in other Office apps today. The setting is found under Settings > General > Privacy and data > Privacy settings.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:15:04 Z

Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:15:49 Z

Select a meeting recording in your OneDrive and ask Copilot to recap the meeting, highlight parts where you were mentioned, or recommend action items and next steps. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Viva Glint Dashboard

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:30:08 Z

Enable managers and leaders to gather additional information and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey. By leveraging a Pulse survey that recommends questions based on the top strengths and opportunities identified in the org-wide Glint survey, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the team’s progress to-date in addressing key focus areas, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage supports 14 more languages

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:51 Z

Viva Engage now supports 14 additional languages (listed below), making the platform more accessible to global users. This update allows employees to engage in their preferred language, helping improve communication across multilingual teams. Users can navigate to their settings in Viva Engage and choose their preferred language in the drop down under 'Language' settings. The new languages are - 1. Arabic 2. Vietnamese 3. Serbian (Latin) 4. Slovak 5. Croatian 6. Hebrew 7. Slovenian 8. Lithuanian 9. Estonian 10. Bulgarian 11. Latvian12. English (United Kingdom) 13. Spanish (Mexico) 14. French (Canada)
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365: M365 Archive Search

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:15:51 Z

M365 Archive will introduce new search capabilities that allow end-users to easily identify archived content. This feature aims to improve productivity by making archived data searchable by end users so they can identify which site needs to be reactivated.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:15:04 Z

Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : MDM-independent support for Endpoint DLP on MacOS devices

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:15:10 Z

Endpoint DLP is extending support to MacOS devices independent of the MDM solution used to deploy (previously supported through JAMF or Intune).
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Enhanced device inventory for Apple and Android devices

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

Gain more inventory information about your Apple and Android devices.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Customize visuals and pages in embedded PowerBI reports

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Analysts can now use embedded PowerBI edit tools to customize their reports to add visuals, pages and change themes, text and more, and then publish it to their organization.
GA date: July CY2025

SharePoint: Site attestation

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Site attestation policy is the newest addition to the site lifecycle management suite. It is a one-stop solution to ensure your sites are secure and compliant by reducing the risk of unmanaged sites. This involves regular reviews by site owners or admins to check and confirm the accuracy of site information, including the site's necessity, its owners, members, permissions, and sharing settings. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain unattested for more than 3 months to prevent risks of content over exposure.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API

Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

The new Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API enable customers and ISVs to export Copilot interaction data for processing in their security and compliance (S+C) applications. This new Interaction Export API captures the user prompts and Copilot responses in the Copilot private interactions and provide insights into the resources Copilot has accessed to generate the response. It will be available in Public Cloud for General Availability.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: AI assistant for admins in the Pro Management portal

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

IT admins can optimize their time and resources by utilizing the Pro Management Portal AI assistant. It offers comprehensive answers to questions about Teams meeting spaces and management solutions and delivers data and insights specific to inventory in the organization’s environment. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro and does not require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Discover agent in Microsoft Copilot on iOS/Android

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Agent has been released to Desktop/Web Copilot and now we are enabling Agent UX in mobile endpoints. It will allow end-users to discover installed agents, add new agents and chat with them in mobile Copilot on Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 Copilot App (formerly Microsoft 365 App).
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft 365 App: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC-H and DoD

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:15:04 Z

The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps and services. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to "Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise".
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/admin-center/overview-cloud-policy
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Reply and forward emails in a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 reply and forward emails in a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:04:17 Z

Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:28 Z

With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot advanced text analysis in Excel

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:30:31 Z

Copilot can now analyze text by identifying themes or sentiments, cite examples in the data, and insert a column with theme/sentiment labels.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Entra: Conditional Access What If API

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 23:15:43 Z

Microsoft Entra Conditional Access What If API can be used to programmatically test the impact of conditional access policies on user and workload identity sign-ins.
GA date: December CY2024
Preview date: September CY2024

SharePoint: Site ownership policy

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:30:32 Z

Site ownership policy is a one-stop solution to effectively manage ownership needs of all SharePoint sites in your tenant. It helps you to define your organization's ownership criteria and identify sites that are not compliant. You can further notify predefined set of users of your choice to find the next best site owner or admin. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain ownerless for more than 3 months to prevent risks of data mismanagement.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Forms: New user onboarding experience

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:15:15 Z

Introducing an upgraded onboarding experience tailored for new Forms users, designed to provide a seamless and user-friendly initiation to the platform. Get started effortlessly with our refreshed interface and streamlined features.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

Fri, 20 May 2022 22:03:33 Z

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide
GA date: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Emoji picker in Viva Engage

Fri, 31 May 2024 22:30:03 Z

Enhance your posts in Viva Engage with the integrated emoji picker. No need to memorize shortcuts; just click the emoji icon in the command bar to express yourself with ease.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:33:43 Z

GA date: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Configurable Keyboard Shortcuts

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:15:57 Z

Set your own keyboard shortcuts to match your work preferences. Customize the keyboard shortcut for an action you frequently use by clicking on the ellipsis and selecting Keyboard shortcuts from the menu.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios for customers trying to override a DLP soft warning policy tip when submitting a print job. Before this rollout, the user must reinitiate the print job for the intended result. After this rollout, the override will be stored temporarily, and the print job will execute.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

OneDrive: New Folder Anyone Link Permission: View & Upload

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:45:15 Z

We're introducing a new 'View and Upload' permission for folder 'Anyone' links in the OneDrive Admin Sharing Settings. This feature allows tenants to restrict folder links to 'Anyone can view' while still enabling the 'Request Files' functionality. It offers tenants more granular control over content access, ensures compliance with internal policies, and helps administrators maintain a higher level of data governance.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - New question types

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:30:54 Z

Viva Pulse authors can add new question types, including matrix types, and leverage enhanced logic to drive more targeted survey experiences for respondents.
GA date: June CY2025

SharePoint: Support for click through rate metric in page analytics

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:15:08 Z

This release will enhance SharePoint page analytics by adding click through rate metric. A new card will show the percentage of unique viewers who clicked on a link from the news post, providing insights into user engagement with the post.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Unified attachment flow on Teams Mobile

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:03 Z

Introducing a new content picker for Teams Mobile! Attach any type of content, whether files or media, from the paperclip icon in the compose overflow menu. Our unified attach flow makes it easy and intuitive to attach content from any source location.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Reply and forward emails in a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Outlook: Group messages as conversation for PST files in new Outlook for Windows

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

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 group messages as conversation for emails within .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities, #newoutlookforwindows, #pstfilesupport.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Secure password deployment in the Edge management service

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:15:18 Z

The secure password deployment feature in the Edge management service enables admins to deploy encrypted shared passwords to a set of users, allowing them to log into websites seamlessly without ever seeing the actual passwords. This reduces the risk of unauthorized access and enhances the organization's overall security posture.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution in Teams Rooms on Android

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

You can now take advantage of speaker recognition, transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in Teams Rooms on Android. Intelligent speaker functionalities are brought to existing speakers via the cloud. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Premium in meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Detailed error description for LMS setup failures

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:30:32 Z

LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Data Assessments

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:30:19 Z

Data assessments in Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by creating scoped assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: November CY2024

Outlook: Custom account icons in Outlook Mobile

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:30:03 Z

Soon, you'll be able to choose a custom icon so that it's easier to tell your accounts apart while using Outlook on iOS and Android.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:04:25 Z

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.

GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Teams: Set New Ringtones in Teams Mobile

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:15:03 Z

This feature allows you to customize and select different sounds for various types of calls, helping you better manage your alerts and distinguish between different incoming communications. For users with Microsoft Teams Phone, this also includes calls for forwarded and delegated calls.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplified Input box update in Copilot Chat

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

We are making it easier for users to type prompts with access to CIQ, local files, attach cloud files, and agents by adding it under the Plus Menu.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Call quality reports for BYOD rooms in the Pro Management portal

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

As with Microsoft Teams Rooms, admins can now access detailed call quality reports for BYOD rooms with associated peripherals in the Pro Management portal. These reports include call history and session details that help diagnose network, audio, and video issues. Reports in the Pro Management portal requires a Teams Shared Devices license for the room.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery - Share a prompt to a Microsoft Team's team

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:00:32 Z

Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Copilot Chat, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills is now available

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

We’re excited to launch People Skills, an AI-powered service that delivers personalized skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365. Using advanced inferencing, it helps organizations identify skill gaps and promote upskilling. With People Skills, individuals can easily share a current view of their skills and more easily connect with others. People Skills data enriches people-based experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot and in the Microsoft 365 profile card and editor.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat module UI refresh

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Copilot Chat is designed to provide a streamlined UI, making it easy to get started and achieve your goals quickly. It offers a helpful, understanding, and personalized experience, allowing you to search for past interactions, content, agents, or pages with ease.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Outlook: Profile cards in the new Outlook for Windows display people details stored in PST files

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to click on a person to view their details stored in a .pst file on the profile card . Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Profile cards in the new Outlook for Windows display people details stored in PST files

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:15:13 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help monitor response collection and insights

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:15:55 Z

Copilot in Forms can now help you monitor and collect responses for your forms, so you can get the data you need with much less effort. Copilot can create a collection plan, track your progress, and let you know when to take action with reminders and insights. Forms can notify you when early insights are ready, and you can easily continue your analysis with Copilot in Excel. Say goodbye to manual follow-ups and hello to smarter collection and analysis.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Remote Help supports multi-session AVD

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:15:21 Z

Remote Help supports AVD sessions with 1 user on 1 VM today. This feature will enable support for multi-session AVD with several users on 1 VM.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity Labels for Loop Components

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:15:17 Z

Sensitivity labels for Loop components - Users can set/apply/view sensitivity labels to loop components to classify and protect content based on its sensitivity level. The labels help enforce policies such as encryption, access control, and content marking to ensure that sensitive information is handled appropriately.
GA date: May CY2025

SharePoint: Dashboard in Sites

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:45:28 Z

The dashboard layout webpart will be available on all sites and pages. Currently the dashboard webpart is limited to Home Sites, it will be extended to Team Sites and Communication Sites
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy sync status on Purview portal

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:16:02 Z

The Policy Sync Status feature enables solution admins to know the policy sync status directly from the Policy page in Purview portal. When a policy is created or updated by a user, the changes are distributed to the locations selected. This new feature will give users insight into whether the policy changes have reached the target locations. This policy sync status feature is available for DLP (excluding endpoint policies), Information Protection, Data Loss Management, Records Management, Information Barriers, and Priva.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Search past sessions in Copilot Chat

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Search through your past Copilot conversations in Copilot Chat.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Create channels with ease

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:15:04 Z

Efficiently create channels directly from the header menu, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. As a channel creator, you will have the flexibility to choose from all the teams you can create a channel in to host your new channel.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Setting to toggle comma as recipient delimiter

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:46 Z

By default, Outlook Web and the New Outlook support separating recipients by using either a semicolon or a comma. This new setting allows users to choose if the comma should be used as a recipient separator or instead allowed as part of the contact name. This is helpful for organizations where contacts follow the "Last name, First name" format. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations - single device

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:05:15 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced contextual discovery of agents within Microsoft 365

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:28 Z

Customers now have new experience to discover, install, and use/reuse agents within the Copilot app for Microsoft 365.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP support - Just-in-time on MacOS

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:15:50 Z

You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Sensitivity labels

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

Viva Amplify will support sending mail with sensitivity.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:15:49 Z

You can now reference a TXT file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

You can now reference a TXT file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

You can now reference a TXT file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Monitoring in the Edge management service

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:30:09 Z

The Edge management service offers an overview of insights about your managed Edge instances and suggests actions you can take. For out-of-date devices, you can easily schedule updates or notify users to update their browsers to avoid workflow interruptions.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Outlook: Calendar support in Online Archive

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:15:01 Z

Add calendar support in Online Archive.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: May CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Manage GDPR requests in Engage admin center

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:00:34 Z

You can now manage GDPR deletion requests directly within the Engage admin center, streamlining the process and reducing reliance on the legacy Yammer admin center. This update centralizes compliance actions in one modern interface.
GA date: June CY2025

Outlook: Create, Delete, Rename, and Move Folders

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:15:26 Z

You will now be able to more easily create, delete, rename, and move folders on mobile. From your inbox, tap the Edit icon in the sidebar. Tap on any folder to create a subfolder, or rename, move, and delete that folder. You can also rearrange and nest your folders by dragging and dropping them.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot summary for transferred calls

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:15:12 Z

When a call is forwarded/transferred to another colleague, users can prompt Copilot to automatically summarize the context, open questions, etc. for the call as a briefing for the receiving colleague. This feature ensures that the recipient is well-informed about the previous conversations related to the transferred call, enhancing their understanding and preparedness.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support for summarization of very long documents

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:00:08 Z

Copilot in Word can summarize documents up to about 1,500,000 words or 3,000 pages. This summary will be available on top of the document.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:00:21 Z

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.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Edge: AI-powered History search

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:15:26 Z

Enhanced search finds sites in your History even when you use a synonym, phrase, or typo. After this feature is turned on, sites you visit will be shown in enhanced history search results. An on-device model is trained using your data, which never leaves your device and is never sent to Microsoft. Admins can use the EdgeHistoryAISearchEnabled policy to disable this feature.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Teams: External group chat policy enforcements for max two orgs

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:15:36 Z

Facilitate creation and maintenance of external group chats with bilateral policy enforcement where members in the chat can belong to a maximum of two tenants. Allow tenant admins to control bilateral chat policy and apply it to users and groups.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Town hall usage reports in TAC will have all the relevant usage data related to town hall events in the tenant.

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

When Town hall was released, there were some columns/data related to each Town hall event that were missing in the TAC usage reports for IT Admins. Now all the relevant usage related data are added to the town hall usage reports available in the TAC portal for Admins.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:00:33 Z

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.
GA date: March CY2026

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Fix all spelling and grammar issues with Copilot

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:45:04 Z

One-click solution to fix spelling and grammar errors in the document
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Users can view app ratings before installing apps or agents

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:00:02 Z

We have improved user options for sharing a link for a Teams app or a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent in a chat. Links to apps and agents will have a new preview card with user ratings for users to consider before installing apps or agents in Teams and clear actions like Add (which installs the app or agent) and View detail. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is not required to share Copilot agent links but may be required to install and use the agent.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:16:00 Z

Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses hosted at SuccessFactors can be displayed at Viva Learning.
GA date: July CY2025
Preview date: July CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:15:06 Z

Microsoft Teams: App ratings will be available in the unfurled links

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:00:02 Z

App ratings will appear on the unfurled links for shared apps and agents to allow users who rely on ratings to evaluate apps prior to installing.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Standard and Basic licensed Teams rooms on Windows in the Pro Management portal

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:00:08 Z

The Teams Rooms Pro Management portal now supports and enforces licenses for devices in Teams Rooms on Windows with a Standard or Basic license. IT admins get a unified device management experience through the Pro Management portal where they can manage those devices with the same functionality found in Teams admin center for that license type.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

Copilot in Teams will now have a 'stop' button after sending a prompt. This will allow the user to stop Copilot's response either before the response has started to generate, or even after the response is generating. The user may then start a new prompt if they wish.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: CVI support for Townhall and Webinar presenters

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:15:18 Z

Organizations that do not currently use Microsoft Teams can now seamlessly join and present within Teams Town halls using their own video conferencing devices (VTC). By integrating Cloud Video Interoperability (CVI) capabilities into the event form, organizers and presenters receive join codes for their tenant. CVI presenters who join the call will automatically join and interact with other users in the green room prior to the event starting. This capability ensures all participants can see each other (and see the meeting video) without any limitations, providing a seamless and inclusive experience for everyone involved.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:30:25 Z

Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Allow/disable reactions in Engage events

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

Organizers can now disable reactions in Engage events. When this setting is turned off, attendees won’t see or be able to use reactions on questions, discussions or comments. Organizers can manage this option under additional settings in the event creation/edit page.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Admin Copilot available in GCC

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:09 Z

Microsoft Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center will soon be available in government clouds (GCC). Tenants that have at least one Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be able to access Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center via the Copilot button on the top right corner of the screen.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Anonymous comments in Engage events

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:31 Z

Organizers & attendees can now post comments anonymously during Engage events—just like anonymous questions. When enabled by the organizer, these comments are fully anonymous in the UI and compliance systems, helping foster open, honest conversations. Look for the “Comment anonymously” toggle when posting to protect your identity and encourage authentic engagement.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Opening Calls in a small window in Teams

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:45:29 Z

Allowing users to open calls in a small window to reduce disruptions in Teams.
GA date: May CY2025

SharePoint: New File Format Support for Document Translation

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:15:15 Z

We're expanding file format support for Content AI Document Translation in SharePoint Online. Newly added extensions include: xlf, tsv, tab, mdown, mdtext, mdtxt, mdwn, mht, mhtml, mkd, mkdn, odt, rmd. This update brings us in alignment with Azure Document Translation capabilities and unlocks new scenarios, such as .xlf support, which enables seamless translation of eLearning and localization content exported from many industry tools.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Open file links preference to extend across M365 apps

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:15:03 Z

When it comes to how links to cloud-hosted Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files should open, you may prefer they open in a browser, desktop apps, or directly in Teams. Now, your Teams file open preference will extend to across Microsoft 365 apps starting with classic Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This makes the open file experience consistent on your Windows PC/device. If you prefer, you will still be able to choose your Teams file open preference separately.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Additional features on the profile card in Outlook Mobile

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:30:52 Z

Reachability panel, hybrid location, and pronouns (read only) will be available on the Outlook profile card in iOS and Android. Events panel will be replaced with the calendar in Outlook mobile.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity Label support in Engage

Fri, 02 May 2025 22:00:26 Z

Your organization can now manually apply Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Sensitivity label support in this new application will allow admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage. End users will be able to manually apply labels to Engage communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams Button Support on Multiple Connected Peripheral Devices

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:45:25 Z

You can now use the Teams button across peripheral devices without having to manually select a specific device in the Teams devices settings. This ensures a more seamless experience navigating across multiple certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral USB devices (with a wire or a dongle) connected to the same host device (such as your laptop). For example, you can use the Teams button on headset A to bring up the meeting pre-join screen, then use the Teams button on headset B to join the meeting, and then use the Teams button on your connected speakerphone to raise hand in the meeting, etc.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard Trendline Additions

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:46:01 Z

Copilot Dashboard users can now visualize trends in additional key adoption and impact metrics over time to more quickly identify patterns and opportunities in employee adoption for better licensing decisions. Users will be able to now view Adoption metrics on either a monthly or weekly timeframe for specific groups of interest, as well as deep dive into Impact metrics like Copilot Assisted Hours, Actions Taken, and feature-specific dimensions.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings responses can be exported to Word and Excel

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:45:29 Z

Now, certain responses from Copilot in Teams meetings will have an option to ‘edit in’ Word or Excel. The ‘edit in’ option for Word will be available for Copilot responses that are long (more than 1300 characters) and will automatically open a Word document with the response written. The ‘edit in’ option for Excel will be available for Copilot responses that are formatted in a table, and will automatically open an Excel file with the formatted response added. Copilot responses can only be exported if the meeting policy for the meeting is set to allow copying or forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, transcript, and Copilot responses. The export capability will also inherit the sensitivity label of the meeting (sensitivity labels are available to Teams Premium users).
GA date: May CY2025

Word: Email Notification Context Previews for Files Protected with Microsoft Purview

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:43 Z

This is being removed as a duplicate of 486820
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Current web content included when drafting with Copilot in Word

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:45:20 Z

Draft with Copilot will include information from Bing search, resulting in content that's as current as what you would find when searching with Bing on the web.
GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Endpoint DLP shows full path of target domain

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:15:15 Z

Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Search Skill (Copilot in Engage)

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Engage Copilot now uses search skills to find and summarize relevant posts, with citations and direct links.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catchup Skill (Copilot in Engage)

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:30:13 Z

Catch up effortlessly on Home Feed or Community conversations since you last checked- this card will provide a personalized update to what you missed since you last logged into the Viva Engage homepage or since you last clicked into the Feed for a specific Community you follow
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft 365: Use Copilot in your search tab in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:15:57 Z

Quickly find your files and leverage Copilot to get a better understanding within the search tab on the go.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:30:44 Z

Planner: New Microsoft Planner App for Teams for customers in GCC-H

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:15:17 Z

The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner and the power of Project into a single and simple solution that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
GA date: May CY2025

Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:30:04 Z

Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail's importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot's priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, emails, and meetings

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:15:14 Z

Just like when you're using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you've selected in your document.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:15:25 Z

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.
GA date: October CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quickly launch the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your iOS device

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:15:05 Z

Press the Action button or ask Siri to launch Copilot on your iOS device.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Copilot Pages on your mobile phone

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:15:33 Z

Create Copilot Pages from Copilot Chat on your mobile phone to continue working on the go.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft 365: Copilot Prompt Gallery - Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:45:24 Z

Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery App, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery App.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Leaders updated via group sync

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:15:44 Z

Currently, leaders are managed in Viva Engage manually. If you wish to add or remove leaders, you need to go to Engage to do so. This feature will allow you to define a group that includes users who should be designated as leaders. As you add or remove people from that group, they will gain or lose privileges accordingly. The manual method will continue to be available.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Progressive alert scoring

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:12:05 Z

With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. 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.

GA date: January CY2025
Preview date: August CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Additional actions include submit, allow/block, and trigger AIR from Advanced Hunting.

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:50 Z

SoC will be able to do submissions and tenant level block and trigger investigation actions from Advanced Hunting
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:26 Z

With this new feature, users on the new VDI solution for Teams can blur their background, choose a Teams virtual background, or replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the "Video effects and Settings" option.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments.
GA date: August CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot surfaces key statistics in the top of a document

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

Copilot includes a summary at the top of key statistics from your Word document.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:23 Z

Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments.
GA date: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:30:52 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:30:52 Z

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference People from your enterprise in Copilot in Word

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:30:52 Z

Users can now reference People from your enterprise while generating content in Word.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode New Flow

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:08 Z

After further review, this feature continues rolling out. We apologize for any inconvenience. Together mode will get a new simplified flow which will take the user from the beginning to the end through the steps of setting up the scene, assigning the seats and applying for everyone in the call in a transparent and easy-to-understand way. The function itself does not change but there will be more transparency thanks to the icons on the meeting toolbar for an easy access for each next step in the familiar Together mode flow.
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications on web

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:15:09 Z

You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen when using Teams on web. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity.
GA date: April CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agents in Teams Mobile

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:15:12 Z

Use SharePoint agents in Teams Mobile group chats and meetings.
GA date: September CY2025
Preview date: August CY2025

SharePoint: Design ideas for quick links webpart

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:30:35 Z

Design Ideas now provides formatting suggestions for the quick links webpart. This includes suggesting icons and images for a given link, as well as showing how the webpart would look with different card sizes, for single quick link webparts in a section.
GA date: April CY2025

SharePoint: Design Ideas for Blank Flexible Sections

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

When you add a blank flexible section to your page, you will now be able to open up the Design Ideas panel to get blank section suggestions just as you can for standard sections.
GA date: March CY2025

SharePoint: Design Ideas Suggests Images from Org Assets

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:45:53 Z

SharePoint Design ideas can now pull from your Org Asset images to use within design ideas. If available when performing image suggestion, the first 3 ideas will show suggestions with images from org assets, whereas the rest of the ideas will use stock images.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Animated GIFs in email

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:30:41 Z

We are bringing animated GIFs to email crafted by Viva Amplify. GIFs of limited size will appear as animations in Outlook clients.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot takes emails and meetings into account while drafting content in Word

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:30:38 Z

You will no longer need to reference certain types of organizational data for Copilot to generate contextually relevant content. People and chats will still need to be referenced explicitly.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create the perfect banner for your document with Copilot and Designer

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:15:07 Z

Chat with Copilot in Word, and let Designer help your document stand out by producing eye-catching visuals that fill the width of the page.
GA date: June CY2025

OneDrive: Annotate with Apple Pencil Experience on OneDrive for iOS

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

Annotating with hand-drawn content in the OneDrive apps for iOS and iPadOS is now easier than ever. Enjoy various types of annotation tools and expressive strokes that match your pressure.
GA date: July CY2025

Windows 365: Available from New Zealand North

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:30:16 Z

Windows 365 will be available in New Zealand North.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Forward messages with app cards

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

Messages containing app cards in chats and channels can now be forwarded. To use, navigate to the more actions menu of any message containing an app card, and select "Forward".
GA date: February CY2025

Microsoft 365: Long-term retention period for M365 Backup

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:11 Z

This creates the ability to set longer term retention periods to restore beyond one year.
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: March CY2026

Exchange: Adding support for Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:15:47 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025

OneDrive: Upcoming change to shared folder experience in Microsoft OneDrive

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:15:02 Z

With this feature update, when a user clicks a link to a shared folder from Teams chat, channels, email, or other places, they will navigate to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This new view, organized by people, will show and allow access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry can ground their agent in files stored in SharePoint

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:15:02 Z

Tenant Graph grounding provides grounding for agents with relevant information from Microsoft Graph, including files stored in SharePoint. This capability is now available to developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (iPhone)

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:15:03 Z

With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (Android)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (Android)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively. Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity.
GA date: June CY2026
Preview date: June CY2026

OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (iPhone)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:59 Z

Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel.
GA date: February CY2025

Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:11:46 Z

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.

GA date: December CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:26 Z

Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center.
GA date: January CY2026

Microsoft Viva: Advanced moderation access control for corporate communicators

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:15:03 Z

Network admins can choose to enable advanced moderation access for corporate communicators to manage AI themes + keywords detected within organization.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:30:44 Z

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.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New ChatGPT Enterprise connector to discover and bring prompts and responses into the scope of Purview features

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:30:49 Z

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.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

Microsoft Clipchamp: Editor simplification and introduction of light mode

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:21 Z

This change will simplify the Clipchamp editing experience and increase the space you have on the stage to make great videos. We're also introducing light mode as a new option for people to choose whether they view the Clipchamp editor in a Light or Dark scheme.
GA date: February CY2025

Planner: Smart backgrounds for basic plans

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:15:23 Z

Get ready to customize your plans like never before! With smart backgrounds, you’ll be able to quickly spot the right plans. This feature was part of our legacy Planner experience, and we’re now enabling it for basic plans in the new Planner.
GA date: February CY2025

SharePoint: Pages - Updated Hero web part with new layout & styles

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:45:30 Z

The reimagined hero web part will feature a carousel layout and a selection of new styles, creating an eye-catching and engaging experience at the top of the page.
GA date: December CY2024

Whiteboard: Existing Azure Board Migration

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:16:11 Z

This feature will migrate boards that exist in your tenant's Azure storage to OneDrive for Business storage. More information will follow as we near release.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:29:17 Z

Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can build custom engine agents with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:15:46 Z

Developers can use the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK to create custom engine agents. These agents, built on their own AI stack, can be deployed to various platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and other non-Microsoft channels.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft 365: Updated settings for the Microsoft 365 app on Windows

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:15:08 Z

The Microsoft 365 app on Windows added settings to pin the app to the taskbar.
GA date: February CY2025

Windows 365: Concurrency assignment for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:15:04 Z

Concurrency assignment in Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode refers to the number of active Cloud PCs that can be used simultaneously within the total number of licensed Cloud PC usage for Frontline. This allocation ensures that resources are optimized based on the specific needs of the organization and its users.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Feature access management UI in Admin Center

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:15:04 Z

Through the new Feature Access management user interface, admins will be able to manage feature access settings directly in Microsoft 365 admin center. Feature access management allows admins to use access policies to manage which users can access specific features in Viva apps, so you can tailor your deployments to meet your local regulatory or business requirements. Previously, these policies could only be managed with Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets. After this rollout, admins can choose to use either Microsoft 365 admin center or PowerShell to manage feature access. Existing policies set for an organization will persist and can be managed in both places.
GA date: January CY2025

SharePoint: Modifications in the Embedded container type creation cmdlets in PowerShell

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:04 Z

We’re introducing modifications in the container type creation cmdlets. The New-SPOContainerType cmdlet will only create a new container type. We are introducing the Add-SPOContainerTypeBilling cmdlet to add billing profile to the new container type.
GA date: January CY2025

SharePoint: Additional support on SPAC to identify different types of Embedded containers and their principal owner

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:51 Z

The update enables SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to identify the different kind of containers (user, tenant, and group) and the principal owner associated with the container.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft 365: Updates to the Microsoft 365 app

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:15:46 Z

The Microsoft 365 app name, icon, and UI will evolve to support future AI-first experiences. Key UI changes include reducing the top header and consolidating app-level tools and settings into the App toolbar on the left.
GA date: January CY2025

Word: Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:02 Z

Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting so that your content is seamless and fits with your document.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated welcome screen for the Microsoft 365 app on Windows

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:15:40 Z

The Microsoft 365 app welcome screen on Windows will be updated to display a welcome message and progress bar while the Microsoft 365 app loads.
GA date: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: List-based Forms card for Viva Connections Dashboard

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:15:01 Z

This feature will allow operators to add a card for any form/survey created for data collection on the Viva Connections Dashboard for attention and quick action.
GA date: May CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Unified Google Workspace Migration

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

Offer Microsoft 365 customers a seamless experience for migrating Google Workspace workloads to M365. Through a unified portal page, you can initiate and monitor migration tasks for both Gmail and Google Drive. Additionally, if your Google Workspace tenant has fewer than 1,000 users, you'll benefit from the newly revamped Gmail migration flow, which simplifies the process and guides you through each step.
GA date: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service is a 1st party service for migrating Google groups with the M365 Admin center as a new feature, so that Google compete customers moving to M365 would have the ability to automatically create the groups, its members, member conversations and all permissions to M365 Groups without the need to recreate the groups which is the only solution for customers moving from Google.
GA date: February CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft 365 admin center: Google to Entra Identity Sync service

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:35 Z

Google to Entra Identity Sync service is a cloud-2-cloud user Identity onboarding and one way synchronization tool from Google workspace to Entra ID. This will be available as part of the M365 Admin center for Google compete customers moving into M365 to create the identities in M365 farm and move Drive and Mail content into Onedrive and Exchange online
GA date: January CY2025
Preview date: December CY2024

OneDrive: Convert Copilot response into a Word file

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:15:49 Z

Like a summary or FAQ that Copilot generated for you? Now, with one click, you can convert any Copilot response into a Word document. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
GA date: April CY2025

OneDrive: Create a presentation from a Word file

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:15:49 Z

With Copilot, you can create the first draft of your presentation using a Word file in just a single click. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
GA date: April CY2025

Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:28 Z

Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:15:57 Z

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only)

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:15:57 Z

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser.
GA date: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:26 Z

You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (...)
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft 365: Dedicated Backup Administrator Role for Microsoft 365 Backup

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

Use a dedicated Backup Administrator role to manage your M365 Backup administration tasks.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft 365: Create full-workload backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:15:28 Z

Automatically backup all Exchange or OneDrive users and/or SharePoint sites in the tenant and have the tool automatically add new users/sites to the backup policy.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts

Thu, 09 May 2024 23:00:20 Z

Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Video reactions

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:30:16 Z

This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature. This feature was incorrectly updated to a status of rolling out upon preview availability. We apologize for any inconvenience.
GA date: January CY2025
Preview date: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:44:48 Z

Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: January CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Seek bar thumbnails for Teams meeting recordings

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:30:44 Z

This feature adds seek bar (preview) thumbnails to Microsoft Stream's video player. The thumbnails provide a preview of the video content when hovering over the player's seek bar at a certain timestamp. Currently, it will only be made available for Teams meeting recordings.
GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars (Premium)

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:45:19 Z

This feature will now allow event organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars. These labels are visible to organizers when creating an event instance once selected, and notify organizers if the details of the event being created are not valid for the selected sensitivity.
GA date: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Microsoft Fabric

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:15:50 Z

Your organization can now apply sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview Information Protection to Microsoft Fabric workspaces. This new functionality will allow users to manually label Fabric items with their sensitivity level and then apply access control protections based upon the protection policies set by administrators.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Topic Subscription notification

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:45:36 Z

This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users will receive a Viva Engage bell notification when a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or when the topic is added to an existing post.
GA date: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only)

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:30:25 Z

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)
GA date: September CY2024

Microsoft Entra: Passkey authentication in brokered Microsoft apps on Android

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:30:19 Z

Microsoft Entra ID users can now use a passkey to sign into Microsoft apps on Android devices where an authentication broker like Microsoft Authenticator or Microsoft Intune Company Portal is installed.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Video templates

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:30:51 Z

Create and highlight videocentric publications, like meeting content or executive messages, with the new video templates in Viva Amplify; this presents videos that are inline, playable, and beautiful.
GA date: August CY2024

OneDrive: Admins can configure a group policy to block specific folders from OneDrive Sync

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:00:00 Z

In addition to being able to configure a group policy to exclude specific files or file extensions from Syncing with OneDrive, admins can now exclude folders as well. End-users will be able to see the excluded folders in the Sync configuration applied to them via their OneDrive Advanced Settings.

GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, advanced hunting, and custom detection email entity page take action

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:18:04 Z

SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer, advanced hunting, custom detection and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/announcing-quarantine-release-integration-in-microsoft-defender/ba-p/4198601
GA date: July CY2024
Preview date: November CY2023

Microsoft Teams: School Connection – Providing access to parents via their phone number

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:15:18 Z

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams (mobile) empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student's learning at school. This release enables a parent/guardian to get access to their child’s profile in School Connection if they login to Teams (mobile) with their phone number and the school has registered that phone number as a parent/guardian contact. Additionally, a parent/guardian will easily get access to their child’s profile if the phone number or email address that is registered by the school is saved as a login information in their Microsoft account. Learn more about School Connection at the link below.
More info: https://parent.microsoft.com/
GA date: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Copilot assisted goal authoring with Context IQ grounding

Wed, 08 May 2024 23:45:39 Z

When generating goals, users will be able to add more than one file from context IQ suggestions as references in their prompts to Copilot.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers – Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:15:11 Z

Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). 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 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.
GA date: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels

Fri, 31 May 2024 22:30:03 Z

Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand.
GA date: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: File Image preview in chats and channels

Tue, 07 May 2024 23:30:56 Z

When you share documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) in chat or channel conversation, you can see a thumbnail image of the file in the thread. This lets you preview the file’s content without opening it and find the file you need quickly.
GA date: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:15:52 Z

You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel.
GA date: May CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections on iOS and Android tablet

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:45:01 Z

This adds a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva Connection users on iOS and Android tablets.
GA date: April CY2024